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v.14 motley: we can consider them actors in their society, but then all changed
vv.14/16 are very important: they refer to the theatre, and are expressed again in the end of the 2nd stanza. They lived as they were on a stage. Th e characters may have a mask. This reinforce the idea of their superficial acquaintance.

2. STANZA
The poe

folklore, and legends later appeared in many of his works.
His father was an artist and free thinker who influenced his son in love for art, particularly painting.
When he left school he decided to become an artist, but soon discovered that his real vocation was poetry, and published his first poems in the Dublin University Review, in 1885. Yeat

Description of a group of soldiers that are coming back from the battle.
Lines 1-2: there are two similes:
-"Bent double like old beggars under sacks"→ Tenor: soldiers; Vehicle: old beggars; Ground: the same appearance.
-"Coughing like hags"→ Tenor: soldiers; Vehicle: hags (witches); Ground: bad health.
→Both these similies show us t

When her father died in 1904 she moved to a new area of London, Bloomsbury, where she founded a close circle of intellectuals → Bloomsbuty Group.
As a group they saw themselves as sharing common values which emphasised the importance of subjectivity, aesthetic enjoyment, personal ties of affection, and intellectual honesty.
They were hostile t

"THE SOLDIER"

"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing Eng

DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE: this poetic form, which he perfected and popularized, presents a fragment of an action ( story) through the voice and from the point of view of a character involved in that action. Its features include:
• a first- person speaker who is a character separated from the poet
• a listener who don’t speak but who affects the develo

To convey the feelings associated with them.
Poetry is characterised by musical patterns of sounds which are based on the natural qualities of spoken language. Its language is far more condensed and intensificated: the poet combines words to make his reader felt what he has felt, and experience what he has experienced.
The structural units of p

His experiences of the war led him to represent the war through crude and realistic details, but also with pity and human sympathy.
Now considered the most important ot the “war poets”, Owen wrote poems particularly relevant as experiments in poetic technique.
The “war poets” were the first who denounced trench life or death by gas, but also who

The novelists of the first part of the age accepted its structure, values and convention as did the majority of their readers.
Novelist saw and denounced the evils of their time and the inadequate educational system but, like the reading public, they did not question the fundamental idea that the system was right or that progress was inevitable. Li

Yeats was one of the two major poet ( with Eliot) of the first half of the 20th century. Like Eliot he was influenced by European MODERNISM but, unlike Eliot, in that there are also important indigenous elements, both English and Irish in his works.
His early poetry is very much in the romantic tradition but colored by a love for Irish landscapes an