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OUR JOURNAL MADE BY CHIARA ZEPPIERI.

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Wordsworth is particulary associated with his vision of nature, seen not as beautiful scenery, but as a spiritual influence on life. His vision is pantheistic because he identifies the natural universe with God. In contact with the lakes and mountains of his beloved Lakeland, he is aware of "A presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts...": man and nature become fused through partecipation in the one "mighty being" and natural objects like flowers or animals become humanised.
Talking on philosophy, pantheistic vision says that all the world is divine and God is the essence of the world."

Written by Chiara.

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Lake District is a mountainous region in North-West England. It is famous for its lakes, forests and mountains and its associations with the early 19th century writings of William Wordsworth and the other lake poets. The Lake District is intimately associated with English literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. Thomas Gray was the first to bring the region to attention, when he wrote a journal of his Grand Tour in 1769, but it was Wordsworth whose poems were most famous and influential. Wordsworth's poem "I wandered lonely as a Cloud", inspired by the sight of daffodils on the shores of Ullswater. A variety of other poets and writers made visits to the Lake District for example Sir Walter Scott, Percy Shelley and others.

Written by Giorgio.

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William Wordsworth was born in Cumberland in the Lake District where he spent most of his life deeply influenced him and his love for nature. In summer 1790, he went to France, Switzerland and Italy on a walking tour. In France he was very impressed by French Revolution. In 1795 he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom he started a long friendship. The first edition of the collection of poems "Lyrical Ballads" was published in 1798 and the second with the Preface in 1800 which is considered the MANIFESTO OF ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY. Until 1805 he produced some of his best poems, for exemple THE SOLITARY REAPER. In 1812 with the death of two of his children, his poetry became more rhetorical. Later his political ideas became conservative and they recoinciled his pantheistic worldview (God is actually present in nature). Wordsworth died in 1850.

Written by Giorgio.

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Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright

In the forests of the night:

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, and what art,

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? And what dread feet?

What the hammer? What the chain?

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? What dread grasp

Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,

And water'd heaven with their tears:

Did He smile His work to see?

Did He who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright

In the forests of the night:

What immortal hand or eye

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

Translation
Tigre! Tigre! Divampante fulgore

Nelle foreste della notte,

Quale fu l'immortale mano o l'occhio

Ch'ebbe la forza di formare la tua agghiacciante simmetria?

In quali abissi o in quali cieli

Accese il fuoco dei tuoi occhi?

Sopra quali ali osa slanciarsi?

E quale mano afferra il fuoco?

Quali spalle, quale arte

Poté torcerti i tendini del cuore?

E quando il tuo cuore ebbe il primo palpito,

Quale tremenda mano? Quale tremendo piede?

Quale mazza e quale catena?

Il tuo cervello fu in quale fornace?

E quale incudine?

Quale morsa robusta osò serrarne i terrori funesti?

Mentre gli astri perdevano le lance tirandole alla terra

e il paradiso empivano di pianti?

Fu nel sorriso che ebbe osservando compiuto il suo lavoro,

Chi l'Agnello creò, creò anche te?

Tigre! Tigre! Divampante fulgore

Nelle foreste della notte,

Quale mano, quale immortale spia

Osa formare la tua agghiacciante simmetria?

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Little Lamb, who made thee?

Dost thou know who made thee?

Gave thee life, and bid thee feed

By the stream and o'er the mead;

Gave thee clothing of delight,

Softest clothing, woolly, bright;

Gave thee such a tender voice,

Making all the vales rejoice!

Little Lamb, who made thee?

Dost thou know who made thee?

Little Lamb, I'll tell thee,

Little Lamb, I'll tell thee:

He is called by thy name,

For He calls Himself a Lamb.

He is meek, and He is mild;

He became a little child.

I a child, and thou a lamb,

We are called by His name.

Little Lamb, God bless thee!
Little Lamb, God bless thee!

Translation
Agnellino, chi ti fece?

Sai chi ti fece?

Ti diede la vita, e ti disse di nutrirti

Dal ruscello e sopra il prato;

Ti diede un vestito di delizia,

Il più morbido vestito, di lana, chiaro;

(Chi) Ti diede una così tenera voce,

da fare gioire tutte le valli!

Agnellino, chi ti fece?

Sai chi ti fece?

Agnellino, te lo dirò,

Agnellino, te lo dirò:

Egli è chiamato col tuo nome,

Poiché Egli Si chiama Agnello.

Egli è mite, ed Egli è buono;

Divenne un piccolo bambino.

Io un bambino, e tu un agnello,

Siamo chiamati col Suo nome.

Agnellino, Dio ti benedica!

Agnellino, Dio ti benedica!

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Blake started to write poem at 30 years old. In the 1789 published "Songs of Innocence" and in 1794 published "Songs of Experience".
His works at the time weren't accepted, but now he is an important poet. The difference between "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" are: in the fist one, he seems to remind men's condition in the garden of Even, or the spirit of an innocent child. Whereas in the second one, that represents a message of strenght and doubt towards God and life: selfish and unfair. These two aspect are both present in men's soul: "THE LAMB" representative character of the first collection of poem, symbolized God's love for us, and "THE TIGER" representative character of the second one.
Another important themes in Blake are: imagination, political question and the child.

Written by Debora.

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During his life, Blake developed his theory of contraries. This quote summarizes his thought:
"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion,    reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence."
In fact, progress is based on a conflict between contraries. Once contraries are accepted, energy is created, progress is inevitable. Both good and evil for example have to be accepted rather than fought as they contrast and complement each other, creating energy, progress and change. Blake's theory of the complementarity of opposites is the principle governing Song of Innocence and of Experience. It is focused on two contraries which are states of the human soul. Innocence does not mean not knowing the ways of the world, it's a condition when evil is not yet present. On the other hand, 'experience' is not the condition of 'possessing knowledge' but a more complex acceptance that good and evil might coesist. They form units together that can not be fully understood if not considered as a whole in fact the essence of Blake's theory is that contraries can coexist in the mind.

Written by Giulia.

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The wood of the self-murderer: The harpies and the suicides

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The wood of the self-murderer: The harpies and the suicides

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Is a pencil, ink and watercolour artwork produced between 1824 and 1827. The painting represented a passage from the Hell canticle of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. He has produced in a work of art something that Dante has produced in a literary work. Dante describes the scene thus:

"Here the repellent harpies make their nests,
Who drove the Trojans from the Strophades
With dire announcements of the coming woe.
They have broad wings, a human neck and face,
Clawed feet and swollen, feathered bellies; they caw
Their lamentations in the eerie trees."

Written by Ludovica.

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This is a painting of 1794, by Blake. The figure represented is not God, but Urizen, a mythological figure invented by Blake. Urizen has an absolute desire of power, has a desire to control everything around him. In fact, Blake puts him at the center of the sun.

Written by Ludovica.

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William Blake was born on November 28, in 1757, in the Soho district of London. He was a 19th century writer and artist. His visions would have a strong effect on the art and writings that he produced. Blake is an important figure of the Romantic Age, his writings influenced countless writers and artists during the years, it is also considered an original thinker. Blake always supported the idea of art as a whole, pure spiritual activity away from materiality, he drew inspiration from Dante, Omero and also from the Bible, writing some passages of it, which for him contained the divine message of God. He thought that the artist was a fantastic creature can understand all things.

Written by Ludovica.

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Today we are going to talk about William Blake and William Wordsworth. We organized our work and diveded different parts.
Me, Giulia and Debora focus our attention on William Blake: his life, art (with his masterpiece), teory of contraries (with "Songs of Innocence and of Experience") and his poetics (with "The Lamb).
Giorgio and Chiara focus their attention on William Wordsworth. His life (with "Lake District") and his vision of nature (with "Panteistic Vision").
We write all like a journal, with pictures, videos and maps.

Written by Ludovica.