Letteratura Inglese

Heathcliff giura di distruggere le due famiglie che lo hanno fatto tanto soffrire. Intanto Cathy muore  dando alla luce  una bimba chiamata,  anche lei, Catherine. Heathcliff mette allora in atto una vendetta   demoniaca. Sposa Isabelle, la sorella di Edgar, che non ama,  al solo scopo di impadronirsi della fortuna dei Linton. Eserciterà in seguito  la

It’s composed by 4 stanzas and the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH.
There is a metaphor and the tenor is the terrible condition of poor people, the common ground is the imprisonment and the limitation of imagitation and the vehicle is the mind forg’d menecles.
There are repetitions in lines 1-2 and 4 and an anafora in line 5-6-7....

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
Medieval French author ALAIN CHARTIER, who wrote this very famous ballad that inspired the English romantic poet Lord Byron

FRENCH FABLIAUX
In the “Le dix de perdrix” the women is a liar

WIFE OF BATH
Extroverted, not interested in sexual satisfaction but in money, she is bossy and dominant: she’s go

Il puritanesimo scatenerà la guerra civile contro l'anglicanesimo. All'inizio trionfa il puritanesimo ma alla fine i puritani sono costretti a migrare in un nuovo paese.
Giacomo I creò la "Union Jack". "union Jack" era l'unione di Irlanda, Scozia e Inghilterra. Però Questa era molto instabile perchè c'era differenze religiose e un forte ass

The old English ballads include the best exciting poetry in the language. Most of them had been composed from 1350 to 1550, so the language is different from the modern English. Maybe the best ballads come from northern England and southern Scotland. The ballad is a narrative poem: it tells a story. The most popular subjects which appear are sex and vio

But this happy period was short.
In fact Virginia ‘s mother died and her father sold it.
When Virginia was thirteen , she suffered from depression for her mother.
In these years she read for long hours in her father’s library and began writing articles and essays.
In 1904her father died and she attemped the suicide by taking drugs.

About poetic technique, the romantic poets used a new and individual style a different poetic diction that means more vivid and familiar words and not the artificial circumlocutions of the early 18th century diction, for example: symbols and images lost their decorative functions to assume a vital role.
About verse forms, there was a retur

SECOND STANZA
The second stanza starts with a simily: the daffodils are compared to the “stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way” ( Line 7). In these lines the poet shows the daffodils as a part of a universal order. The joy exhibited by both the “dancing” flowers and the stars that “twinkle” ( Line 8) is attributed to them by the poet th

• Language: simple and lyrical in the songs and more difficult in the prophetic books.
• Works: “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, “Milton”, “French Revolution, a Prophecy”.

William Wordsworth
• Subject of poetry: Incidents and situation from common life.
• Language: a selection of language really used by men.
• Poetry: it

Paradise Lost
Is a religious epic poem. The epic is a very ancient form of poetry, originating in an age before writing, like Odyssey, Iliad and Bewulf. Paradise lost takes place in the universe: in Heaven, Hell and Eden, the caracthers are God, Satan, Christ, Man and the angels. Although Milton was familiar with the Copernican cosmology he bas