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• during the First World War he worked as a correspondent >> POEMS ABOUT FIRST WORLD WAR
• He was one of the most important British colonial writers.
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HE EXALTED IMPERIAL POWER AND BELIEVED IN THE “BURDEN” OF THE BRITISH, WHO, AS THE ELECTED RACE, HAD TO CARRY CIVILIZATION ALL OVER THE WORLD AND ESTABLISH THEIR GOVERNMENT BASED ON

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OSCAR WILDE:
A major spokesman for the Aesthetic movement in the late 19th century and an advocate of "Art for art’s sake", which proposes that beauty has no utilitarian value and is independent of morality, is Oscar Wilde. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, on October 16, 1854, his father, Sir William Wilde, is a surgeon, and his mother, Jane El

The first and the third lines rhyme and the rhyme sound of the second line is taken up by the fourth and sixth lines. This grants a continuous, forward movement similar to that of the wind.
The ode takes on the form of a prayer to a divinity whose identity is revealed only from the fourth stanza.
As common in prayers, the first half of the poem

Anche il Faust del giovane Goethe avrebbe dovuto essere dannato,ma poi,nella lunga elaborazione subita dal progetto iniziale,la figura si trasformò,arricchendosi straordinariamente di significati.L’opera ha forma drammatica e vi è premesso un Prologo in teatro,tra il Direttore,il Poeta teatrale ed il Comico,poi un Prologo in cielo,in cui Dio consente a

Allora il fulmine vivente salta dagli occhi di lei,e grida d’orrore squarciano i cieli desolati.Grida più alte non sono lanciate verso il cielo(più di quante vengono lanciate)quando mariti,o cagnolini da salotto emettono il loro ultimo respiro;o quando ricchi vassoi di porcellana,caduti dall’alto,giacciono in polvere scintillante e multicolore!
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The imagination, they claimed is a source of spiritual energy and in drowning on its special powers of perception, the poet partakes of an almost divine activity in his recreation and modification of the eternal world.
This new subjective vision of reality went hand in hand with a much stronger emphasis on individual thought and feeling. Indeed ther

ENGLAND IN 1930 + JAZZ AGE, POVERTA’ E PURITANISM - In 1930s England knew several social transformations. The growth of population decreased and women became progressively more independent. In the north, industry declined and expanded in the south: so, in England began a drift of the population from north to south. Managers and professional people

He reduced Scotland and Ireland to submission, revived English sea-power and reorganized the Navy. In 1651 he renewed the Navigation Acts, by which goods imported into England could only be carried by English ships. This fact led to a war with Holland, which had been master of the sea for a generation and had the greatest share of the cargo trade. The D