by Ioana Ioana | Sep 2, 2021 | Lectie de engleza, Limbi Straine
Summary The speaker opens with a declaration of his own heartache. He feels numb, as though he had taken a drug only a moment ago. He is addressing a nightingale he hears singing somewhere in the forest and says that his “drowsy numbness” is not from envy...
by Ioana Ioana | Sep 2, 2021 | Lectie de engleza, Limbi Straine
Summary Keats’s speaker opens his first stanza by addressing Autumn, describing its abundance and its intimacy with the sun, with whom Autumn ripens fruits and causes the late flowers to bloom. In the second stanza, the speaker describes the figure of Autumn as...
by Ioana Ioana | Sep 2, 2021 | Lectie de engleza, Limbi Straine
SummaryIn 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,” the “foster-child of silence and...
by Ioana Ioana | Sep 2, 2021 | Lectie de engleza, Limbi Straine
In Keats’ La Belle Dame sans Merci, the role of nature is relatively simple. In this poem, nature represents all that the protagonist (the knight) loves and needs. Obviously that desire is embodied in the lady he meets in the meadows, but the subtle symbolism within...
by Ioana Ioana | Sep 2, 2021 | Lectie de engleza, Limbi Straine
John Donne, whose poetic reputation languished before he was rediscovered in the early part of the twentieth century, is remembered today as the leading exponent of a style of verse known as “metaphysical poetry,” which flourished in the late sixteenth and...
by Ioana Ioana | Sep 2, 2021 | Lectie de engleza, Limbi Straine
Of all the characters presented in Shakespeare’s literature the most sinister one is without a doubt Iago. He is a ruthless sociopath. No other character can even come close to his evil. Most of the antagonists present in Shakespeare’s plays have valid...
