Letteratura Inglese

Metaphisical poetry reflects the crisis of the renaissance man: he looks for a new trhuth and dimension and he tries to give voice to chaotic experience that is ordinary life:his poetry is difficult because life is chaotic irregualr, difficult.
THE SUN RISING
At the beginning he addresses the sun using an insulting,angry,scornful tone. When he s

The poet analyses also the process which must follow for makes a poetic opera.
First of all the poet lives a sensory experience, then he makes emotion. In a second time, in tranquillity, with the memory, kindred the same emotion and at last he writes a poem. In this passage we can be read the theme which caracterize the Romantic poetry: an exaltatio

lei, tutta la bellezza di figlia delle fate aveva,
capelli assai lunghi, e leggeri i suoi piedi,
e selvaggi i suoi occhi.
 
Io feci una ghirlanda pel suo capo,
e pur bracciali, e odorosa cintura;
lei mi guardò com' avria fatto amore,
dolcemente gemette.
 
Io mi stetti con lei, sul mio cavallo
al passo, e

The novel became the most common form of fiction. The novel is fictitious: it narrates about imaginary events and characters although representative of real life.
The 18 th century novelist was the spokesman of the middle classe: he wrote in a simple way to be understood by the less educated readers. The story has to appeal the practical minded trad

This is a Petrarchian sonnet composed by 14 lines and divided in 2 quartins and 2 terzet. The rhyme scheme is ABBA ABBA CDC DCD.
The poet uses metaphor, repetition, personification and simily. This sonnet can be divided into three phrases:
1) introduction
2) description of London
3) poet’s emotional response...

Vago lungo ogni strada privilegiata
Vicino a dove scorre il privilegiato Tamigi,
E vedo in ogni faccia che incontro
Segni di debolezza, segni di dolore.
In ogni grido di ogni uomo,
In ogni grido infantile di paura,
In ogni voce , in ogni proibizione,
Sento le catene forgiate dalla mente.
Come il grido dello spazzacamino~

Perverso, brutale, cupo e immorale, questi furono alcuni degli aggettivi con cui venne definitivo il libro alla sua prima apparizione sul mercato editoriale, e proprio per questo dobbiamo tributare grandi onori all'autrice per averle sapute riprodurre e rappresentare nonostante fosse fin da fanciulla vissuta praticamente segregata nella canonica del pad

Henry Fielding
He began his career as a playwright where he immediately his taste for cutting satire on English society. He attacked the system of justice in England. The “licensing act” put an end to his theatrical career. He turned to novel writing and became on of the greatest writers of the century. He detested the sentimentally and hypocr

The lamb is described as the animal of innocence, like the creature in which there are no troubles, no tensions.
The lamb could stand both as a real animal as a symbol, in fact some natural details make you think of the real animal.
So the lamb is the symbol of God’s innocence and God’s love for his creatures.
In the second stanza the poet s

The Celts came from the North of Europe. They divided in two groups; a group went to Britain, the other one went to Gale. In 55 B.C Julius Caesar made the first expedition in Great Britain because he wanted to know this isle and because he wanted to punish the Celts for the help given to the Gales. He wasn’t ready to attack the Celts in a proper way; s