Letteratura Inglese

It is a very realistic and detailed passage. There are a lot of epithet thanes, kennings, adjectives like strong, gallant and fearless. The Anglo-Saxon soldiers were brave, generous, courageous and loyal. The betrayal was a serious fault.
☻Parafrasi
vv. 9 I suoi coraggiosi seguaci trovarono poco da ridire sulla sua audace avventura, anche se g

CIVIL WAR

When the Civil War broke out there were two opposing forces:
1. the Royalists ( also called Cavaliers, because they had long hair), strong in the north and west, they included conservatives, aristocracy, lords, the gentry and the church of England.
2. the Parliamentarists, supporters of the Parliament, ( they were also c

Main Work: his works can be divided into 3 groups, but the earliest ones are the best known:
-Poetical Sketches, in which he refuses Augustan taste and is influenced by Shakespeare and Milton;
-Songs of Innocence, in which the childhood is the symbol of innocence;
-Songs of Experience, in which there is a pessimistic view of life;
-The M

R. BROOKE
- Born into a well-to-do academic family
- Brooke’s poetry would have changed in tone and imaginary
- Brooke is remembered as a war poets, who inspired patriotism in the early months of the great war
- He assumed a symbolic role that turned into the myth of a young and beautiful fallen. - He didn’t get in touch wi

Run-On line (Enjambement): When a line ends in the middle of a phrase and (the meaning break) comes in the next line.
Assonance: The repetition of the same vowel sound can colour part of the poem with that vowel quality.
Alliteration: The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in consecutive words or words which are close together.
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Robinson è uno spirito libero che decidi di viaggiare. Anche se il padre è contrario.
In uno dei suoi viaggi robinson naufraga su un isola deserta. Egli è l'unico sopravvissuto.
Sull'isola rimane per 28 anni. Comunque Robinson dopo un pò di tempo impara a vivere sull'isola: addomestica gli animali, pesca, costruisce case. Inoltre salva

Even science couldn’t help the population any more: it has provided certainties so far, but now, with the new and destabilizing theories by Sigmund Freud, the thought there could be something men can’t govern and dominate, as dreams, totally scared scientists and public panel. His theories deeply affected any kind of relationships, from the parents-chil

LISPETH

Lispeth is a Indian girl, whose parents turned Christian and baptised her after the bears destroyed their harvest. When they died of Cholera, Lispeth stayed at Christian mission. She grew into a beautiful girl.
In her habits Lispeth differs in various ways from the white people. For example, she likes taking very long walks, u...

Man and the natural world
Wordsworth is interested in the relationship between man and the natural world, the contact between man and nature seen not as an objective and precise observation of natural phenomena but as emotions and sensations which arise from this contact. In fact he thinks that man and nature are inseparable: man exists not outside

In England, Blair entered the public school system, and was admitted to Eton College in 1917. For most students of this era, Eton led directly to higher education at a university, often Oxford or Cambridge. Blair shunned further formal schooling, and after leaving Eton in 1921, returned to India in 1922 to join the Indian Imperial Police. This work gave