Letteratura Inglese

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

The expression “Industrial Revolution” usually refers to that period in which England had an economic development from 1760 to the middle of the 19th century,and it sealed the Britain’s transformation from an agricultural to an industrial country.
During this revolution , new sources of power (for example coal

Even science couldn’t help the population any more: it has provided certainties so far, but now, with the new and destabilizing theories by Sigmund Freud, the thought there could be something men can’t govern and dominate, as dreams, totally scared scientists and public panel. His theories deeply affected any kind of relationships, from the parents-chil

His most important work is SONGS OF EXPERIENCE (1794) .
He also wrote : THE FRENCH REVOLUTION , A POEM IN SEVEN BOOKS (1791) , A MERICA A PROPHECY (1793) and MILTON (1803-08)

songs of innocence(1789) and songs of experience(1793) :
songs of innocence and songs of experience are two distinct but parallel productions , they are comp

He prefaces his actual reading with background information about the governess, the youngest daughter of a poor country parson from Hampshire, who at age of twenty answered an advertisement placed by a gentleman seeking a governess for his orphaned niece and nephew. The young woman, met with the gentleman on London's Harley Street. She was immediately i

But this happy period was short.
In fact Virginia ‘s mother died and her father sold it.
When Virginia was thirteen , she suffered from depression for her mother.
In these years she read for long hours in her father’s library and began writing articles and essays.
In 1904her father died and she attemped the suicide by taking drugs.

Run-On line (Enjambement): When a line ends in the middle of a phrase and (the meaning break) comes in the next line.
Assonance: The repetition of the same vowel sound can colour part of the poem with that vowel quality.
Alliteration: The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in consecutive words or words which are close together.
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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...

SECOND STANZA
The second stanza starts with a simily: the daffodils are compared to the “stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way” ( Line 7). In these lines the poet shows the daffodils as a part of a universal order. The joy exhibited by both the “dancing” flowers and the stars that “twinkle” ( Line 8) is attributed to them by the poet th

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

The king was elected by the witan composed by the most important nobles or thanes from the seven kingdoms. They were organized in villages. Every village was governed by the thane whose task was to make everybody obey the law and to guide his man to battle. There were no prisons, the criminals where mutilated, hanged or submitted to a trial by ordeal.