Inglese

They wrote more classical poems like odes, sonnnets and elegies. They abandoned the popular genre in favour of a more traditional one.
In their poems there is a strong presence of arcaisms.
The language is difficult, elevated and raffinate.
They moved to more profetic themes and considered themselves like profets: they wanted to bring the tr

Keats is usually regarded as the most romantic poet because in his poetry we can recognize all key-themes that are typical of Romanticism: beauty, unrealism, musicality, disillusionment and imagery.
Keats is also regarded as the forefather of aesthetic movement because he is the first that give importance to beauty as a moral value, saying that beau

THE LUDDITE MOVEMENT
The Luddite Riots (1811-12) were due to the Industrial Revolution. In fact, workers were very worried because the introduction of new machines was leading [=indurre] to heavy unemployment and so the Luddites start destroying machines in Nottingham. This movement spread throughout England but it was soon suppressed because people

The story teaches that we must believe in our dreams because they can begin in reality.
CHARACTERS
The principal characters are:
- Ariel: she was 16 years old. She was a beautiful little mermaid who dreamt of knowing the world of the humans. She had red long hair and blue eyes. Her mother died, she had only a father called Tritone and seven

c. the symbolism of light and darkness. The lights are half-extinguished and this sense of darkness contributes to increase the sense of fear and horror. The most important events happen in night. We have light only when Victor is a little child, when he spends time with his family because light means happiness and serenity. Instead dark means fear, hor

In 16th century there was a common account of the chain of being. At first there waas the inanimate class: Element; Liquids; Metals. Then the vegetative class. Then the animal class leading of to man. Finally there was the Angels, linked to man through the community of understanding. Man is divided between SPIRIT and MATTER and his function is create ba

divided into 3 periods.1175-1250.
the early gothic period like the
wells cathedral which become the
example of the new trend in British
cathedrals.1250-1300 the Decorated
Period is characterized by the artistic
inventions ad in particular by the
elaborate and ornate traceries.
The innovation was deeply
influe

PETRARCH VS SHAKESPEARE
The difference between Petrarch and Shakespeare is from finding in their women. The woman of Shakespeare is its lover, of which the name is not known. This woman comes described in its bearing that is much crude one. She is seen like a dark woman, although that the poet loves it. While, on the contrary of Shakespeare, t...

It was born in England → Britain needed natural sources (Britain lost its colonies in America after the war)
• population growth (increasing numbers of consumers and workers)
• the rise of the factory town (workers’ houses near the factories) → urbanisation (Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester)
• living and working conditions (very poor, dange