Dreams
The poem is made up of eight
lines, which are grouped in two stanzas each of four lines of different length
and all begin with capital letter.
The pattern of end rhymes in
each stanza is the same: the second and the fourth line rhyme, [...]
“When you are old”
This poem,dedicated to Maud Gonne, is an
example of the love poetry he wrote before35 years. The composition is full of
mythical imagery. The poet imagines her in front of a fire and he asks her to
read a book of his life [...]
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
The Bronte sisters,
particularly Charlotte and Emily, rebelled against Jane Austen’s world of order
and self-control.
Their novels are romantic
in sprit, explore extremes of passion and violence
JANE EYRE [...]
American
Dream
It’s the idea
that trought hard work, courage and determination one can achieve prosperity.
In mid
1800s the Gold Rush and then immigration from Europe where people wanted to
escape from poverty (persecutions and economic [...]
MRS
DALLOWAY di VIRGINIA WOOLF
Mrs. Dalloway is the
most important Woolf’s novel. It is a modern novel because she wants to express
the inner world of characters. The protagonist is Clarissa Dalloway, a wife of
Richard Dalloway, a Member of Pa [...]
From ‘Politics and the English Language’ by
George Orwell
Orwell didn't have the most positive view of the future and
politics.
In
this extract of his essay “Politics and the English language”, he examines
writing in English, diagn [...]
La Tigre
Tigre! Tigre! Divampante
fulgore
Nelle foreste della notte,
Quale fu l'immortale mano o occhio
Che ebbe la forza di formare
La tua agghiacciante simmetria?
In quale abissi o in quali
cieli
Accese il fuoco dei tuoi occhi?
Sopra [...]
INTERNET
The internet started in the 60s, when the
American Defence Department wanted an extremely safe way of sending messages in
case of nuclear attack. From the 1960s to the 1990s the Internet was used
primarily by the Defence Depar [...]
History
The Iberians arrived in the British Isles about 300.000
years ago. In about 3000 BC these people started using stone as a building
material. Neolitic farmers first built henges and
chambered tombs made of huge stones.
Language N [...]
History
A first wave the Celts tribes originally from
Central Europe arrived in Britain after 700 BC. The Goidels were strong
fearless warriors and conquered an extensive part of Europe. A second wave they
invaded Britain in the 4th century, th [...]
Macbeth
– William Shakespeare
This play is a very complicated war tragedy. It talks about vehement men
and crimes.
Macbeth is a middle ages Scottish noble. One day, coming back from a
battle in which he earned king’s grace, he met three [...]
THE VICTORIAN AGE 1837-1901
THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT
QUEEN VICTORIA: she ascended the throne in 1837. her young
age and her inexperience facilitated the establishment of a constitutional
monarchy with the gover [...]
Romeo and Juliet
One day two
Capulet’s servant met two Montague’s servant: they start fight. Later arrive old Capulet and his wife and old Montague and his wife
and they joined in the fight. Fortunaly arrive Prince Escalus the rappresentant of [...]
I racconti di Canterbury
La vita di Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
è spesso chiamato “il padre della poesia inglese”, il primo grande
scrittore inglese. Naque a Londra nel 1340 circa, figlio di John Chaucer, un
importante merca [...]
THIS/THESE si usa per indicare pers. Anima a
noi.
THAT/THOSE si usa per indicare PERSONE.
Animali o cose che si trovano lontano da noi.
SOME nelle frasi affermative con sost plur.
ANY nelle frasi negative o int. con sostantivi
plurali.
[...]
Inglese
“The education in the
Victorian age”
During the first part of Queen
Victorian’s reign, only the rich and the aristocrats were able to send their
sons to exclusive private schools the boys were sent to famous [...]
Awe . Mystery . Grandeur . Fascination . Fear . Unreachability . Unknowability . Ancien . Ancien . and
even more ancient . !!
If you have ever been Stonehenge, you may have felt these feelings.
It’s thought that the name ”St [...]
William Blake
was born in London
in 1757, and he got little formal education. Blake had visions which helped him
escape from the squalid reality around him; he also used to talk to God or to
great figures of the past like Dante or
Milton. In 17 [...]
The Irish
Conflict in Northern Ireland
Until 1921 Ireland
was a single political unit governed as a colony of Britain. In 1921 Ireland was
partitioned into the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. In 1949 the Republic
of Ireland was
pr [...]
Verbo ausiliare essere: forme affermative, negative ed interrogative
Auxiliary verb to be
affirmative form
negative form
interrogative form
I am (*I’m) - io sono
you are
(you’re [...]
