Letteratura Inglese

After Mina’s best friend Lucy came to visit her in the town of Whitby many strange things happened.First, there was a hreat storm, and then that night Mina found Lucy on a bench with something black with red, shining eyes bending over Lucy’s body.After that night on the bench, Lucy got increasingly ill. Arthur asked Dr Seward for help, and Dr Seward c

In December 1936 Orwell went to Catalonia to report on the Spanish Civil War, and then he joined the militia of the POUM (Workers Party of Marxist Unification).
In 1941 he moved to London and in 1943 he became literary editor of “Tribune”, a socialist weekly. Throughout these years, he began to write “Animal Farm”, which he completed in 1944(but it

A Protestant humanist
Milton started writing poetry early. As a student in Cambridge he wrote his first important work, Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nutivity, where the fusion of Christian and classica1 elements was already present. From 1632 to 1638 Milton lived at his father’s country house, studying and conposing poetry, for example L’Allegvo

PROSE (pag.55)
Anglo-Saxon prose developed thanks to King Alfred who ordered to write the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. He was a very learned man and founded a school for nobles and he himself translated “Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum” by Bede and De Consolatione Filosofiae by Boezio. Then we have to remember Aelfric who translated from the Old Te

Chartism
Their discontent was voiced by the Chartist,a group of radicals and workers who presented to Parliament a document called the People’s Charter advocating radical reform of Parliament in six points.But the Charter was rejected and disappeared without achieving its objectives.
Worker’s rights
Factory workers had to wait fot the Reform

With the odes is also to be remembered the ballad of “La Belle Dame sans merci” a poem an the old theme of the femme fatale.
In 1820, the symptoms of consumption (tuberculosis) became evident. So he travelled to Italy in an attempt to recover his health but he died in Rome in 1821 and he was buried in the Protestant Cemetery of Rome. Keats lived o s

There are some methods to depict consciousness because of it often combines past-present-future.These methods are for example flashbacks fade-out or slow-up , the use of similes and metaphors or particoular forms of punctuation.
Interior monologue
The basic and the most used method is the use of “interior monologue” that is differ

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

SUMMERY:
This work consists of four books, each dealing with the various adventures of Lemuel Gulliver:
• BOOK 1: To sustain his family, Lemuel Gulliver accepts to sail on the “Antilope” as a ship’s surgeon and he leaves Bristol on the 4th May 1699. After six months, because of a storm, he lands alone upon the shore of an island, that he di

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