Lingue

In the second quatrain the poet expresses the struggling of the child, expecially through two symbols: the swadling bands and the father’s hands, which symbolize the chains of repression which the infant is subdued to. In the end the protagonist decides to come back home to his mother’s breast, which is the safest place to be.
Comparison w

Non è noto quando o perché Shakespeare si recasse a Londra e intraprendesse la carriera teatrale. La prima testimonianza di quest’ultima è fornita da un accenno dell’opuscolo polemico (pubblicato postumo) da drammaturgo e poligrafo Robert Greene: Greene’ Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance (Un soldo di spirito acquistato con un milion

sindaco di Stratford,nel 1582 si trovò però in gravi difficoltà finanziarie(fu esonerato dal
pagamento della quota per il soccorso ai poveri e della tassa per il mantenimento dell’esercito):
eppure nel 1596 passò dalla condizione di yeoman(borghese possessore di terre)a quella di
gentleman.
Nel 1580 il giovane William,dopo aver ricevuto

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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