Lingue

- Poetry should use a familiar, simple language (the language of men in the middle and lower classes) because humble country people live in communion with their objects from which language originates and voice their feelings in a more immediate forceful way.
- The poet has to reach the essence of things and communicate them in a simple language; he

He collected a lot of poems in Lyrical Ballads (1789), added of a Preface on 1800 that was the manifesto of Romantic movement in Britain. In the Preface he explains his ideas about poetry.
The main setting and inspiration of his poems was nature.
He makes children and childhood the subjects of his poems ( they were closer to nature than men).~~~

PREFACE TO LYRICAL BALLADS: he defines poetry as the spontaneous overflow feelings and it takes origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. Role of poet: the poet is a man like other men, but endowed with a higher sensibility, so he is able to recognize the spirit of things. Language: the language should be that spoken by men, even if purified of

Wordsworth’s poetry is usually associated with nature, a word that can mean several things:
• Nature as the countryside, often opposed to town, noise and confusion. The rural scene is silent and solitary: it is a source of great pleasure for man;
• Nature as an inspiration for the poet, who tries to describe the relationship that joins man to n

Maybe he tought to marry her, but ostracism of her family, and because he was lack of money, he had to return in England; so there was the war between England and France, so he was impossible to return in France.
In 1795 he met Coleridge, with whome he developed a long and very productive friendship and that had the same passion for the nautre; they

• Unusual rhyme scheme: the rhyme is alternated, but in each quatrain there’s a rhyme which appears also in the following quatrain.
• Turning point: line 9.

William Shakespeare

XII: WHEN I DO COUNT THE CLOCK
In this sonnet, Shakespeare describes the passing of time through some images: the ticking clock, the day which is t

Trama:
l’opera comincia con un’introduzione, una forma narrativa in cui Cristopher Sly, l’ubriacone ambulante che viene raccolto da un Lord, riccamente vestito, che gli fa credere di essere stato addormentato per anni. Sly e un paggio si siedono a vedere una rappresentazione di attori girovaghi dal titolo “La bisbetica domata”. Dopo la prima scena

PLOT
Close your eyes and imagine yourself floating back in time to Athens. Here the Duke, Theseus, is preparing for his wedding to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Theseus is looking forward to his wedding day...and night!
1) ...four happy days bring in another moon -- but O, methinks, how slow this old moon wanes!
Hippol

L’opera, interamente costruita sulla concezione medioevale e cortese dell’amore, rievoca le tragiche vicende di due giovani uniti da un amore fatale, che causerà la loro morte. Tutta la rappresentazione è dominata dal contrasto fra un odio antico, che divide le due famiglie di cui fanno parte Romeo e Giulietta (Montecchi e Capuleti) ed un amore giovane

In that Shakespeare explain the quick movement of the time: it is destructive about the material things, in particullary for the body and its beauty.
In fact he said “…Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and the summer’s lease hath all too short a date…”
The darling buds represent the flower of the Youth and the beauty of the life; mea