It was during the reign of Elizabeth I that English trade began to Flourish and that many chartered companies were established. A charter was a grant give by the Queen to a company to trade in particular country or in a particular product. The most important were the Eastland Company which traded in Scandinavia and Baltic, the Levant Company which
TO DREAM
TO DRINK
TO DRIVE
TO EAT
TO FALL
TO FEED
TO FEEL
TO FIGHT
TO FIND
PAST SIMPLE
WAS/WERE
BECAME
BEGAN
BIT
BLEW
BROKE
BROUGHT
BUILT
BOUGHT
COULD
CHOSE
CAME
COST
CUT
DID
DREAMT
DRANK
DROVE
ATE
FELL
FED
FELT
FOUGHT
FOUN
Stanza 1_ Setting and shock at the sight
Stanza 2_ Description of the flowers
Stanza 3_ Relationship between the flowers and the poet
Stanza 4_ Emotion recollected in tranquillity
The devices used by Wordsworth in this poem are. Similes: lonely as a cloud; continuous as stars. Personification: crowd, host, (the daffodils) fluttering and
There was many changes in the lives of the people. The first change was, of course, their close ties with machines and the rhythms machines impose. So the people can be replace when was necessary, and so wages could be kept very low.
Children were especially prized by the factory owners because their small size permitted them to repair parts o
In his first splendour,vaey,rock or hill;
Ne’er saw I,never fet, a calm so deep! First person(the poets show us is feelings)
The river glideth at his own sweet will: personification
Dear God!the very houses seem asleep; personification
And all that mighty hert is lying still!
Traduzione
La terra non ha niente
After giving up engineering, he graduated in law in 1875 and decided to devote himself to writing. He went to France where he married Fanny Osbourne, and since his health was deteriorating, they moved to Australia and Tahiti, settling down at Vailima in Samoa.He died of a brain haemorrhage in 1894.
MAIN WRITINGS
Treasure Island(1883), The s
A day, when he was fifteen years old, during a thunderstorm, a flash of lightning hit a tree and in a few seconds the tree was reduced to a hollow piece of black wood two meters high. From that he wanted to find out all he could about electricity and its incredible power.
When he was seventeen years old his mother died. After some time he left home
During the travel they had to leave the ship because it hit a rock and broke in two. By swim he arrived on an island and he was so tired that he slept straight away. When he woke up, he searched to get up but he couldn’t because he was fixed to the ground. He could only watch the sky when he felt something moving on his foot. He saw a very little man.