TEMA 4: El Parlamentarismo Inglés 4.1INTRODUCCIÓN: Tras Enrique II la monarquía inglesa, origen francés, los Plantagenet, va perdiendo fuerza. 4.2 EL FINAL DEL SIGLO XII: RICARDO CORAZÓN DE LEÓN: -Más preocupado por las Cruzadas que por su propio país, apenas ocupó el trono 10 años. -En su ausencia Inglaterra fue gobernada por el obispo de Ely (W. Longchamp). Otra gran figura de la época fue el Arzobispo de Canterbury (H. Walter) quien se hizo cargo de recaudar los fondos. -Su hermano...
TEMA 3: Germanos y Normandos en Gran Bretaña
3.1 -GERMANOS: 3.1.1. Britannia se pierde para el Imperio Romano: -Ataques de las tribus del norte al Imperio Romano (siglos V-VI dC) -Crisis interna del Imperio Romano -Movimientos de los pueblos germanos -Las legiones acantonadas en Britannia abandonan la isla (410 dC) -Los britanos o bretones tienen que defenderse de los ataques de las tribus del norte (caledonios y pictospictos) y de Irlanda (escotos) (Los britanos piden ayuda a algunas tribus...
ODE TO AUTUMN - JOHN KEATS
Voice: The poem is written in the second voice, because the poet is speaking to the autumn.
Mood: The dominant mood in the poem is melancholy, because the summer fullness is getting lost and the cold of winter is approaching.
Topic: The theme is the exaltation of fullness of maturity, praising the autumn.
Parts: 1-11, in this part the poet talks of maturity and fullness. 12-22; here we can see how the poet explores the voluptuousness and pleasure of the season. 23-33,...
When i have fears... - Keats
Voice: 1-8 first voice. 9-14 second voice
Mood: melancholy , and at the end ---> frustation.
Summary: he is afraid of dying before completing his word, and not having time to accummulate a wide knowledge to allow him to write a high romance. He is afraid of dying before achieving his
TOPIC . Uncertainty and Fear
PARTS : A) FIRST 2 QUATRAINS Fear of dying before fullfilling his destiniy B) 3RD QUATRAIN fear of dying before tasting real love C) LAST 3 LINES --> Consequence
...Ode on a Grecian urn - Keats
Voice: The third stanza is in second voice, because the poet talks to somebody, to the trees, to the melodist, musician and to the lover (“Ah, happy, happy boughs!”, “Ah, happy, happy melodist” “More, happy love!”) It is addressing to the various elements in the urn and praising to them and its beauty. In the fourth stanza it is second voice too, and he is referring to the priest (“O, mysterious priest”) and to the town (“And, little town, thy streets...
VOICE : St.1-9 1st voice st10- 2ndvoice st11-23 1st voice st.24- 2nd voice st.25 3rd voice (''off----St.29) st.30-32 -1st voice
MOOD: Melancholic. In the end : acceptance.
SUMMARY : Meditation upon the tumbs of humble people, which leads the poet to meditate about his own death and ''the memory'' he will leave once he dies. In this meditation, the poet opposes fortune and fame to knowledge and feeling, in favour of this last ones.
STANZAS: Stanza 15.John Hampden,...
Voice: It is written in third voice. There are three different speakers: the scientist, Baldassaro (who is dead), and a Group of people in the carnivals.
Mood: It is melancholic and sad. Although there are some moments of joy in the midst.
Topic: The topics of the poem are Tempus fugit and Carpe Diem. There are three parts; in the first part (from line 1 to line 4), the topic is tempus fugit. In the second part (from line 5 to line 10), the topic is...
VOICE: The entire poem is in third voice because the narrator is a “child” who is talking to a lamb.
MOOD: It’s a happy mood.
SUMMARY: The child in the poem is talking to a lamb, which is the reincarnation of God. He’s asking question about its creator. They are rhetorical questions, because he already knows the answers (it’s creator is God).
TOPIC: Pantheism, which is the existance of an identity between God and His creatures.
PARTS: We can divide the poem in two parts:...
SHELLEY: Shelley, born the heir to rich estates and the son of a Member of Parliament, went to University College, Oxford in 1810, but in March of the following year he and a friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, were both expelled for the suspected authorship of a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism. In 1811 he met and eloped to Edinburgh with Harriet Westbrook and, one year later, went with her and her older sister first to Dublin, then to Devon and North Wales, where they stayed for six months...