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Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She left school as a teenager and she decides to live a reclusive life on the family homestead. In her poems there is always a deep melacholy. Her poetry is a microcosm build up by her metaphysical vision of the world

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Robert Frost was an American poet and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes. Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He lived a very difficult life, he lost his father and live a poor life. He will become famous when he moved to London and meet Ezra Pound who help him to pubblish his works. He talks about the rural life in his poem

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Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, on August 23, 1868, he is the voice of the provincial america,  he give a lot of importance to the landscape and heritage of   the Midwestern world. We found all of this in "Spoon River Antologhy"

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The Great Gatsby, third novel by F.Scott Fitzgerald published in 1925 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth. Unsuccessful upon publication, the book is now considered a classic of American fiction and has often been called the Great American Novel.

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Jack Kerouac's On The Road is the defining work of the Beat Generation, a youth subculture of the 1940s and '50s that rejected the conformism of its time. It is a book of ideas and characters more than plot, and through the journeys of the main characters, the reader sees a picture of rebellious American youth and their attempts to subvert the cultural mandates they had been given in order to conform to white middle-class life. Kerouac's prose emulates jazz and the energy of the time. The book documents the four cross-country journeys of two friends Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty-the fictional alter-egos of Kerouac and the Beat writer Neil Cassady--and their cast of friends, acquaintances, wives, and lovers.

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Jack Kerouac was the symbol of the Beat Generation. "Beat is a word coined by Kerouac, it rapresent the spontaneus  rhythm of jazz music and the beatitude of oriental mysticism. The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of standard narrative values, making a spiritual quest, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, the rejection of economic materialism, experimentation with Pschedelic drugs , and sexual liberation and exploration

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Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts. He live a bhoemian life, he meet Neal Cassedy who become the point of reference for the character Dean Moriarty, protagonist of the most important Kerouac work: "On the road"

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Ernest Hemingway served in World War I and worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time. He was renowned for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms. He wrote about the "lost generation" In 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize. He committed suicide on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho.

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The 1920s in the United States, called “roaring” because of the exuberant, freewheeling popular culture of the decade. The Roaring Twenties was a time when many people defied Prohibition, indulged in new styles of dancing and dressing, and rejected many traditional moral standards. American literature found a period of gold during all Twenties. The author, who gave an alive imagine of “roaring Twenties” is Francis Scott Fitzgerald.Fitzgerald was one of the best known American authors of the 1920s and '30s and is closely associated with the optimism and excesses of that era's "Jazz Age." Fitzgerald's stories often featured people like himself: middle-American types infatuated with the wealth and status of upper-crust society.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd
And every fair from fair sometime declines
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou growest
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So long lives this and this gives life to thee

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My favourite scene of Frankenstein is when the monster after been rejected by a lot of people took refuge in the farm of a poor family. The family's terrein because of the freezing weather conditions was infertile and they didn't have the daily provide. The monster started to observe secretly the family and thanks of them he learn to read and write . He becomes attached to them and descovered that one of the component of the family was blind. He helped them to solve their problems collecting them the provide. One day a man attached the blind man so the monster helped him, they started to talk and become friends. Suddently arrived the rest of the family that because of his appearance tought that he attached the blinded man so they hit him and push him away so the monster run away desperate. I really like this scene because it underline the great importance that man gives to exterior appearance, in fact pepole because of this refused the monster  thinking that he was a dangerous creature even if they didn't know that in reality he was a good soul who wanted only new friends. Because of this he swear revenge over all the human and becomes a bad creature. I think that the most important things is to not judge by appearance but go deeper in the soul of a person to descover his true personality.

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In this video Oscar Wilde explain what he wrote in two letter about love. In the first he talks about the heterosexual love.  The other is named: " The love that dare not speak its name" it rapresents   the relationship between a young intellectual man and an old man wich has been misunderstood in his era

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Wilde (1997) - Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde - Trial - The love that dare not speak its name

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James Joyce, (born February 2, 1882, Dublin, Ireland—died January 13, 1941, Zurich, Switzerland), Irish novelist short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He was note for his experimental use of language and exploration of new literary methods in such large works of fiction as Ulysses (1922)

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Thomas Stearns Eliot, (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died January 4, 1965,London, England), American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the modernist movement in poetry  in such works as The Waste Land (1922) . Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in  style, and versification revitalized English poetry. He obtain the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism
As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism; and is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty Four(1949)

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Walt Whitman, (born May 31, 1819, West Hills, Long Island, New York, U.S.—died March 26, 1892, Camden, New Jersey), American poet, journalist, and essayist whose verse collection Leaves of Grass first published in 1855, is a landmark in the history of American Literature. He is considered one of America's most influential poets

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The Scarlett Letter is a 1995 American romantic drama film. It is a film adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel. In Puritan Boston Hester Prynne was accused of adultery and the leading men of the Puritan settlement decided that Hester had to stand on the platform for three hours where everyone could see her. Then, she was condemned to wear a scarlet “A” on the breast of her dress all her life.

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Is a novel written by Walt Whitman for Lincon who in 1856 was murdered. The protagonist of this poem is the ship wich rappresent the America that Thanks to Lincon go over all his problems.

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Dead Poets Society | Oh Captain, My Captain

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Midnight's Children TRAILER 1 (2012) - Satya Bhabha Drama HD

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In this video Salman Rushdie answer some questions about his novel: " Midnight's Childern" The protagonist and narrator of the story is Saleem Sinai, born at the exact moment when India became an independent country. He was born with telepathic powers, as well as an enormous and constantly dripping nose with an extremely sensitive sense of smell.

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Salman Rushdie interview- Midnight's Children

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Edward Morgan Forster was born January 1, 1879, London, England—died June 7, 1970,  Warwickshire), British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic. His novel Passage to India brought his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years

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Trailer - THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY 2004

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Trailer - THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY 2004

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Trailer - THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (2004, Josh Duhamel)

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Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 Original Trailer

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Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 Original Trailer

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Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 Original Trailer

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Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish novelist, poet, and critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. Wilde was a proponent of the Aesthetic movement, which emphasized aesthetic values more than moral or social themes.

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Top 10 Notes: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Top 10 Notes: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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In this video there are 10 notes about The Picture of Dorian Gray novel written by Oscar Wilde

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Top 10 Notes: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ by Oscar Wilde is a 109 stanza is a poem written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand . It is separated into six sections. The sections all maintain the same rhyme scheme of ABCBDB. “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” is Wilde’s most successful poem and was his last great work written before his death in 1900

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Oscar Wilde begins his prison meditation, De Profundis, with an aphorism, not the light and witty kind for which his plays are famous, but one which resonates with bleak experience: "Suffering is one very long moment." Having reached the turning point in his despair, the disgraced writer goes on to set out his plan for transforming that experience into a different kind of art and a new kind of life, borrowing Dante's title La Vita Nuova for his own projected resurrection. The Ballad of Reading Gaol, this week's choice, is the fulfilment of that plan.

Wilde wrote the poem in 1898. He was now free, but a broken man, and a broke one. Besides two letters, he produced nothing else of literary significance before his death. It was first published simply under his prisoner identification number, C.3-3.

The poem is dedicated to the memory of the "sometime" Royal Horse Guards trooper, Charles Thomas Wooldridge, and the central incident is Wooldridge's execution for the murder of his wife. Around this narrative core, whose genre might be described as gothic realism, Wilde builds a meditation on the paradoxes of morality. The Ballad is an indictment of the death penalty and the whole penal system, but it is much more than a protest poem. It is a revelation, and its structure is part of that revelation.

Everyone can quote the refrain: "For each man kills the thing he loves." Poetically, it's unquestionably powerful, and, intellectually, it's powerfully questionable. What does Wilde mean? Perhaps he is saying that love itself corrupts or alters its object. That would certainly seem to have been true of his relationship with "Bosie", Lord Alfred Douglas, seemingly a spoiled brat further spoiled by Wilde's adulation. Judas, of course, is on his mind: the poem refers to the kiss of Caiaphas, the latter being the priest who participated in Christ's betrayal.

Wilde loved paradox, and he found some essential symbol of it in the man who murdered his wife. Perhaps he found another in the hypocrisy of the prison system itself, destroying the souls and bodies of those it would reform. The ballad form, as he adapts it, encases paradox and story in a tight, encircling ring. It is both a Dante-esque circle of hell and the deadly routine of prison life. It represents the whole cycle of crime and punishment. It is inescapable, like the "iron gin" mentioned in line 173, a symbol of confinement and possibly also an actual machine.

In the plodding iambic tetrameter and the extensive use of refrain and parallelism, we can feel at a physical level the grinding relentlessness of prison work. The tasks Victorian prisoners were set were part of their punishment. They would pedal a treadmill with their feet, for example, and though some prison treadmills were geared to grind corn or raise water, others had no use but to enslave. Then there was the nasty business of oakum picking, a task of unravelling the twine of old tarred ropes salvaged from ships. Wilde had worked at this until his fingers bled.

In De Profundis he depicts Christ as a poet, with "an intense and flame-like imagination", and describes Christian morality as "all sympathy". The sincerity of Wilde's drama of self-regeneration has sometimes been questioned and there is no doubt a certain posturing: if Christ is poet-like, this suffering poet, he seems to hint, is Christ-like. But the central charge of the Ballad is sympathy, sympathy with the condemned man and his fellow inmates. One tiny revision tells us a lot. The last two lines of stanza 41 originally read: "And I trembled as I groped my way/ Into my numbered tomb." In the second version, the shift from first to third person indicates that effort of sympathy.

Sympathy enables Wilde to remember vivid details and evoke collective feelings. The poem's hellish truthfulness raises it beyond its occasional rhetorical flaws, its purple passages. Suffering is not guaranteed to produce great art, or great humanity. However, there is no doubt that Wilde, the self-dubbed "lord of language", turns his awful humiliation to triumph in the Ballad, and attains a new poetic and moral stature.

There's only room for a short extract, but you can read the whole poem here:

With slouch and swing around the ring
We trod the Fools' Parade!
We did not care: we knew we were
The Devils' Own Brigade:
And shaven head and feet of lead
Make a merry masquerade.

We tore the tarry rope to shreds
With blunt and bleeding nails;
We rubbed the doors, and scrubbed the floors,
And cleaned the shining rails:
And, rank by rank, we soaped the plank,
And clattered with the pails.

We sewed the sacks, we broke the stones,
We turned the dusty drill:
We banged the tins, and bawled the hymns,
And sweated on the mill:
But in the heart of every man
Terror was lying still.

So still it lay that every day
Crawled like a weed-clogged wave:
And we forgot the bitter lot
That waits for fool and knave,
Till once, as we tramped in from work,
We passed an open grave.

With yawning mouth the horrid hole
Gaped for a living thing;
The very mud cried out for blood
To the thirsty asphalt ring:
And we knew that ere one dawn grew fair
Some prisoner had to swing.

Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his numbered tomb.
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Poem of the week: The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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Oscar Wilde begins his prison meditation, De Profundis, with an aphorism, not the light and witty kind for which his plays are famous, but one which resonates with bleak experience: "Suffering is one very long moment."

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It is a fable written by Oscar Wilde. It teach me that even the worst aspects of modern society can be overcome by love and charity, which have the unique ability to unite men and make them whole

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THE HAPPY PRINCE by Oscar Wilde read by Stephen Fry FULL UNABRIDGED

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Here there are 5 curious fact about Oscar Wilde

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FRANKENSTEIN THE MODERN PROMETHEUS EXTRA SCI FI.

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FRANKENSTEIN THE MODERN PROMETHEUS EXTRA SCI FI.

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Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus - Extra Sci Fi - #1

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Video SparkNotes: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein summary

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MARY SHELLEY Official Trailer (2018) Elle Fanning, Maisie Williams Movie HD

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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO READ FRANKENSTEIN

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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO READ FRANKENSTEIN

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Everything you need to know to read "Frankenstein" - Iseult Gillespie

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In 1815, Lord Byron proposed a challenge to a few literary guests he had gathered in his house on Lake Geneva: Who could write the most chilling ghost story? This question sparked an idea in eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley who, over the next few months, crafted the story of "Frankenstein."

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Romeo And Juliet 1968 DVDRip AC3 XviD DiSSOLVE CD1 07

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This comedy is set in Elizabeth Kingdom, Shakespeare works for a new comedy called Romeo and Ethel. The problem is that the young  man is short of ideas and he doesn't write a line, so he goes looking for a woman who inspires him. The woman will be Viola De Lesseps that love act, she spends her night reciting the verses of the same Shakespeare, dreaming one day being part of a theater company but she can't because she is a girl and during that year the girl couldn't act and for this she wore the man clothes to play Shakespeare comedy. I really like the film in particular i love the characters of Viola because she is a strong woman that try everything to realize her dream and nothing can drag her down. This inspired me to do the same with my passion

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MY MISTRESS' EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN  COMMENT

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MY MISTRESS' EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN  COMMENT

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With this sonnet Shakespeare overturns all the qualites attributed to the beloved  woman, describing it from a more concrete and real point of view, in fact he says that she does not have perfect eye, voice, perfume but despite all this he loves her anyway
We can divide the poem into two main parts: the three quatrains, where he describes his beloved, not as a perfect creature but as an ordinary one, and the cuplet, where he says that he love his beloved, despite her normality.
I really like this sonnet and i was very surprised that he doesn't describe the beloved perfect but how she is in real life with all her imperfection.
With this sonnet Shakespeare wants to understressed the importance of the external beauty instead of the exterior

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LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS

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LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved

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WHEN I DO COUNT THE CLOCK THAT TELLS THE TIME 

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WHEN I DO COUNT THE CLOCK THAT TELLS THE TIME 

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When I do count the clock that tells the time,

And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;

When I behold the violet past prime,

And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white;

When lofty trees I see barren of leaves

Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,

And summer's green all girded up in sheaves

Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,

Then of thy beauty do I question make,

That thou among the wastes of time must go,

Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake

And die as fast as they see others grow;

And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence

Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

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MY MISTRESS' EYES ARE NOTHING  LIKE THE SUN

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MY MISTRESS' EYES ARE NOTHING  LIKE THE SUN

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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

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