Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is a story written by Charlotte Bronte in
1847. It tells about the life of this girl, Jane Eyre, and all the sufferance
that she has suffered from the infancy.
Jane’s parents died when she was still a baby so she
live [...]
AUDEN
Auden was
born in York in 1907 and he was educated in Oxford. He was a
prominent member of a group of young leftist writers who expressed a socially
viewpoint while continuing the artistic revolution begun by earlier writers
such as [...]
The
tell-tale heart
Riassunto e analisi
The tell-tale heart
deals with a murderer who wanted to kill an old man. They lived together. The
murderer couldn’t stand old man’s eye, because it was a pale blue eye with a
film over it. [...]
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Summary
In the first stanza, the speaker stands
before an ancient Grecian urn and addresses it. He is preoccupied with its
depiction of pictures frozen in time. It is the "still unravish'd
bride of quietness, [...]
William Shakespeare
- Amleto -
Al
castello di Elsinore in Danimarca, le sentinelle Bernardo e Marcello hanno
invitato Orazio a raggiungerli per parlargli dello spettro che
è loro apparso le notti precedenti. Per [...]
TOM JONES
Chapter 1
Mr
Allworthy, a gentleman and intelligent man, lived in Somerset with his sister, Bridget. He was
widower. One night he found a baby in his bed. He called his servant, Mrs
Deborah Wilkins, to take care of the child fo [...]
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Life
and Works:
He was born in St.
Louis (Missuri), in 1888 and
educated at Harvard. He was an American by birth, but his cultural background
was at first English and then European. Infact in
1910 he went to Pari [...]
ROMANTIC AGE
Emotion vs. Reason
The romantic
age is developed from 1776 to 1830,
in this period we have great revolution: with American
Revolution the British colonies became free and with French Revolution these
ideas of freedom and equal [...]
JEAN RHYS (1894 - 1979)
Life and work
Jean Rhys, whose real name was Ella Gwen Rees Williams, was born in 1894 in the West Indies, on the Island of Dominica,
an island with a tormented and bloody history because during the 19th
ce [...]
TIMELINE
Post-War America
1947: It was realised the Marshall Plan, four-fifths of Europe was reconstructed by Usa.
1952: Usa accessed to economic markets
and stipulated political alliances.
1949: NATO
was created (attack against [...]
London was founded by Romans 2000 years ago and
the city was called Londinium. It is the most important city because it is the
capital of United Kingdom
and because there are Britain’s
main port and the centre of bus [...]
Elizabeth: outline of the main scenes
from the film
first
scene 1554 :burning
of three Protestants as heretics: the atmosphere is gloomy and tense .
second
scene :Norfolk , one of the
Queen ‘s counsellors, asks one of the Queen’ [...]
RUPERT
BROOKE 1887-1915
Rupert
Brooke is born in 1877. He is a war poet
but he never reached the battle-field, actually, he died of blood poisoning
before going to fight. One of the famous five sonnets he wrote before dyeing,
is "The Sol [...]
English Grammar
VERBI
Present simple
Azioni abituali
Orari fissati ( es orari del
treno ) The train leaves at 3.
Present perfect continous
1.
Used for activities i [...]
Linkers (connettori logici)
and(e), besides, moreover, furthermore, in addition (inoltre), also(anche), again (di nuovo, ri . ) too / as well
(anche/in fondo alla frase separato da virgola),
aggiungere un’idea
[...]
The European Union and International Organization
In
1957, the Treaty of Rome was signed by six countries: Italy, France,
West Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg,
the Netherlands.
By this [...]
The Great Fire of London - 1666
It is
likely that London
has had some form of firefighting from as early as the time of the Romans.
However, after the Roman armies left Britain in 415 AD, any organised
attempts to fight fires were abandone [...]
ROBIN HOOD IS A LEGENDARY HERO WHO LIVED IN
SHERWOOD FOREST,IN
NOTTINGHAM,WHIT HIS
BAND OF FOLLOWERS.STORIES ABOUT HIM AND HIS ADVENTURES
BEGAN TO APPER IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY ,BUT THE FACTS BEHINED THE LEGEND
ARE UNCERTAIN .
ONE WRI [...]
I wandered lonely as a cloud (Daffodils)
Wordsworth
The poem
was composed in 1804 and was inspired by the sight of a field full of golden
daffodils waving in the wind. The key of the poem i [...]
Romantic
poets are traditionally divided in two groups: the 1st generation,
and the 2nd. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Blake (the 1st
generation) are born before, leaved longer and became more famous then Byron,
Shelley, Keats. The 1st generation was [...]
