Letteratura Inglese

Wordsworth used a very simple language, near to the spoken one and far from poetic diction.
Imagination played an important role; it was the capacity of modify the objects observed giving them an unusual aspect; the poet’s eyes could see the reality deeper than the ordinary people ones.
Poetry doesn’t describe just natural and simple objects wit

Socio-political thoughts
Blake, therefore lived in the last part of eighteenth century and is rightly considered the embodiment of the romantic ideal.
During his lifetime all the revolution of ht e world happened: the American revolutionary war; the French revolution and the Industrial revolution.
Although he was agree with the ideal

Then Alice woke up, discovering that it was only a dream, and sometimes a nightmare.
The language used is very simple, because the will of the author was to give this book as a present to a little child, and so, very often, he invented strange words like “rocking-dragonfly”, a mix between a rocking-horse and a dragonfly....

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

There is no record of Shakespeare’s activities during the so-called “Lost Years” of 1584-1590, but we know that in 1587 he left Stratford for London, where he became an actor and a playwright. In this period he seems to have been associated with several acting company, but, the closing of the theatres because of the bubonic plague, allowed him to devote

Coleridge has a particular view of imagination: it’s divided into two parts. All the people have the primary imagination, the capacity of perceiving the reality through our senses, but only the poets have the secondary imagination, the faculty of recreating images modifying, unifying and idealizing the perceptions. The fancy is a mechanical and logical

Seven percent of British students go to private schools called ‘public’ schools. Public schools are expensive and the students must pay their own fees*. There are more than 250 public schools, including Eton. Because public schools usually have smaller classes and better facilities*, they are considered to offer higher-quality education than most state

BLAKE
symbolism
The most famous images Blake uses to represent these two states are the lamb and the tiger. The LAMB is a symbol of the innocence of childhood. Some critics have pointed out that the infantile qualities of the lamb, related to the idea of weakness and innocence, refer also to the God of love and infinite forgiveness of the

Analysis
In the General Prologue, Chaucer sets up the general structure of the tales and introduces each of the characters who will tell the tales. The characters who tell each of the tales are as important as the characters in the tales that they tell; a significant portion of the action of the Canterbury Tales takes place within the prologues to e

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
Tormented by thirst, the other members of the crew hang the albatross around the mariner's neck as