by Ioana Ioana | Sep 2, 2021 | Lectie de engleza, Limbi Straine
Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794) juxtapose the innocent, pastoral world of childhood against an adult world of corruption and repression; while such poems as “The Lamb” represent a meek virtue, poems like “The Tyger”...
by Ioana Ioana | Sep 2, 2021 | Lectie de engleza, Limbi Straine
As Charlotte Bronte mentioned on sister Emily’s Wuthering Heights: ”…She did not know what she had done;” creative artists “work passively under dictates [they] neither delivered nor could question.” I can say that Emily Bronte knew what she was doing when approaching...
by Ioana Ioana | Sep 2, 2021 | Lectie de engleza, Limbi Straine
SummaryThe speaker, addressing a skylark, says that it is a “blithe Spirit” rather than a bird, for its song comes from Heaven, and from its full heart pours “profuse strains of unpremeditated art.” The skylark flies higher and higher,...
by Ioana Ioana | Sep 2, 2021 | Lectie de engleza, Limbi Straine
SummaryThe speaker invokes the “wild West Wind” of autumn, which scatters the dead leaves and spreads seeds so that they may be nurtured by the spring, and asks that the wind, a “destroyer and preserver,” hear him. The speaker calls the wind...
by Ioana Ioana | Sep 2, 2021 | Lectie de engleza, Limbi Straine
SummaryThe speaker recalls having met a traveler “from an antique land,” who told him a story about the ruins of a statue in the desert of his native country. Two vast legs of stone stand without a body, and near them a massive, crumbling stone head lies...
by Ioana Ioana | Sep 2, 2021 | Lectie de engleza, Limbi Straine
SummaryThe speaker says that the shadow of an invisible Power floats among human beings, occasionally visiting human hearts–manifested in summer winds, or moonbeams, or the memory of music, or anything that is precious for its mysterious grace. Addressing this...
