Do some research into the mass phenomenon of
emigration from Italy to America
at the beginning of the 20th century
During the mass emigration from Italy during the century between 1876 to 1976,
the U.S.
was the largest single recipient of [...]
PARADISE LOST ~ MILTON'S SUMMARY
In 1667
John Milton bestowed (some overtaxed students might say 'inflicted') his great
masterpiece, Paradise Lost, upon the world. In 1674 the revised second edition was
published, where he divided [...]
The
Commonwealth
Civil War: owing to
his difficulties with Scotland,Charles was obliged to call a Parliament again in 1640.But
this did not grant money;besides it passed important acts in opposition to the
king.In 1641 the Commonsasked the kin [...]
Beowulf
Il background di Beowulf
La letteratura inglese inizia
dopo l’arrivo degli invasori anglosassoni nel V e VI secolo d.c. Questi popoli
germanici erano noti come Angli, Sassoni
e Juti. Le tribù anglo-sassoni avevano differe [...]
Comment of the soliloquy of hamlet
In this soliloquy
Hamlet meditates on the idea of committing suicide. The hero is the son to the
late and nephew to the present king. He is a man, who is become a kind of
metaphor of the doubt and the [...]
BLACK TALES
Author profile: Edgard Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
in 1809 and totally abandoned when he was two and a half years old. He was
raised by the John Allan family of Richmond.
Poe received a respectable primary educa [...]
I MODALI
DOVERE
Forme Autonome:
Must: solo simple present,
ordine personale (he mustn’t
smoke);
Should: present conditional
“dovrei”, è più lieve (you shouldn’t smoke);
Shall I/we ?: solo interrogative “devo?”, [...]
Early Romantic Poetry
In the second half of the 18th
century, a new sensibility became manifest in poetry and a new generation of
poets began to arise. Even if they didn’t lay down a precise programme of
rules, they established new trends which [...]
WILFRED OWEN 1893-1918
Preface
to his poetry
Owen says that hi poetry was not about heroes,
about legends, or lands, or glory, honour, majesty, power; his poetry was about
war. The subject of his poetry in particular is the pity of the war ( [...]
BEOWULF SI TROVA
DAVANTI AL MOSTRO
In via di ormeggiare,
per la striscia di foschia.
Dio- maledetto Grendel vieni avidamente muovendoti.
La rovina della razza
dell’ uomo vagò avanti,
cacciando per una
preda nell’ alta sala. [...]
VERBI
MODALI
Non formano
l’infinito con il TO
Sono uguali
a tutte le persone.
Non usano
l’ausiliare DO (inversione o not)
·
POTERE
Abilità,
possibilit&agr [...]
Jack
Kerouac
Jack Kerouac, nasce il 12 marzo 1922 a Lowell, una cittadina
industriale del Massachusetts, da una famiglia cattolica franco-canadese di
modeste condizioni. Passa un’infanzia normale, nutrita di programmi radio, di
fumetti e l [...]
PLATO AND
THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE
Plato moved
from the Secratic dialectic to the theory of Ideas. He contrasted the world of
existence with the world of appearance, which is only a manifestation of Ideas.
Plato
divided the cosmos into [...]
Story
Frankenstein is a Mary Shelley’s famous book that
talks about a very intelligent man interesting of science. His name was Victor
Frankenstein. He lived in Geneva, in Switzerland,
with his parents, his little brother, William, and his [...]
THE
U.S.A.GOVERNMENT
The United States of America are a Federal Union of fifty
states with Washington D.C. as the capital and the seat of
Government. The state is based on three levels: legislative, executive and
judicial. The legislative [...]
JACK KEROUAC
La Vita
"Ho avuto una bellissima fanciullezza, mio padre era un
tipografo a Lowell, Massachusetts, trascorsa correndo
giorno e notte per i campi e lungo le banchine dei fiumi, ho scritto dei brevi
racconti in camera mia, il [...]
Charles DICKENS (1812-1870)
Life
& main works:
·
Born
in England;
·
UNHAPPY CHILDHOOD: he had to work in a FACTORY at the age of 12 (his father [...]
by Roald Dahl
LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER
Plot: Mary Maloney is a
devoted wife and expectant mother who wait happily each night for the arrival
of her husband Patrick, home from work. But one night there is something
strange: P [...]
Gothic Novel
Literary genre established by Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) and
marked by mystery, violence, and horror; other pre-20th century practitioners
were the English writers Ann Radcliffe, Matthew ‘Monk’ Lewis, Mary S [...]
The White Man’s Burden
1st stanza
Take up the White Man’s Burden -
Send forth the best ye breed –
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captive’s need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk an [...]
