“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (fotocopia)

ISIS “PIO PASCHINI” – TOLMEZZO
PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E CIVILTA’ INGLESE
CLASSE V C – a.s. 2014/2015
Insegnante prof. Giuliano Benegiamo
- The Augustan Age - general characteristics
- The pre-Romantic Age - general characteristics (appunti dalle lezioni)
- Thomas Gray: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” – cenni (appunti dalle lezioni)
- The Gothic novel – general characteristics (appunti dalle lezioni)
- Mary Shelley (pp. 241-242)
 from “Frankenstein”: text one (pp. 243-244); text two (p. 245)
- William Wordsworth:
 “We Are Seven” (fotocopia)
 “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (fotocopia)
 “My Heart Leaps Up” (pp. 213-214)
 “Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge” (p. 211)
 from the “Preface” to the “Lyrical Ballads”: “Wordsworth’s view of Poetry and the Poet” (pp.
209-210 e integrazioni fornite dall’insegnante)
 Wordsworth’s life and works, poetics, themes, style (pp.207-208)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
 from “The Rime of The Ancient Mariner”: part one (pp. 217-221); part two (stanzas 5-14 fotocopia); part four (fotocopia); part seven (the last four stanzas - fotocopia)
 The theme of supernatural in “The Rime”; interpretations of the ballad
 The theme of nature; imagination
 Coleridge’s life, works, philosophy, poetics, style (pp.215-216)
- The context: the Romantic Period: The historical background (pp.184-187 – solo lettura); the literary
context (pp.189-191 – con l’esclusione dei paragrafi “Other Literary Forms” e “The rise of American
Literature”)
- Charles Dickens (pp. 280-281)
 from “Oliver Twist” (p. 281-285, con integrazioni fotocopiate)
 from “Hard Times”: “The Definition of a Horse” (fotocopia)
 from “Hard Times”: “Coketown” (fotocopia)
- The theme of “The Double” in Man and Society (p. 332)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (p. 334, con integrazioni fotocopiate)
 from “The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde” (p. 335)
- Oscar Wilde (pp.304-305)
• from “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (pp.305-306): “To me Beauty is the wonder of wonders”
(fotocopia); “The lad started, as if awakened” (pp.306-308); “Was he always to be burdened by his
past” (the final scene – fotocopia).
• from “The Preface” to “The Picture of Dorian Gray”: an extract (fotocopia)
• from “The Importance of Being Earnest” (pp.310-311): an extract from act I (fotocopia); text one (p.
311-314, con integrazione fotocopiata)
• Humour and comic situation; comic character; features of a comic plot (fotocopie)
- The context: The Victorian Age: The Historical Background (pp.264-266); the Literary Context
(pp.271-273); Victorian Superiority, Victorian Society, An Age of optimism and the Victorian
Compromise, Victorian moralism, Victorian women (pp. 278-279)
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James Joyce (pp.373-374):
 from “Dubliners”: “Eveline” (fotocopia)
 from “Ulysses” (pp. 379-380): text one (pp. 380-381); text two (p. 382)
- The context: the first half of the 20th century: the cultural and literary background (pp.349-350;
pp. 358-359)
(I numeri di pagina tra parentesi si riferiscono al manuale in adozione; alcuni argomenti sono stati
integrati da appunti forniti dall’insegnante; alcuni brani riportati nel libro di testo sono stati integrati
con fotocopie fornite dall’insegnante)
Libro di testo: Medaglia – Young, “With Rhymes and Reason” – ed. Loescher
Tolmezzo, 30 maggio 2015
Gli alunni
L’insegnante
Allegato 2
Quesiti assegnati nei compiti in classe
24 ottobre 2014
Answer the following questions in no more ten lines each:
1. Explain why the subtitle of the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is “The Modern Prometheus”.
2. Describe the character of “the creature” in the novel “Frankenstein” and its evolution throughout the
novel.
3. How is the sense of horror achieved in the passage from “Frankenstein” that you have read and
analysed?
2 dicembre 2014
Answer the following questions in no more ten lines each:
1. What are the main themes of the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley?
2. How is the theme of children and childhood developed in the poem “We are Seven” by W.
Wordsworth?
3. Is the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” an immediate response to the scene or the record of a
memory? Explain with appropriate references to the poem.
5 febbraio 2015
Answer the following questions in no more ten lines each:
1. According to W. Wordsworth, what should poetry deal with? What language should be used in
poetry and why?
2. Illustrate the character of the mariner in Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and explain
what his “powers” are as he stops the wedding guest.
3. Read the following lines taken from the “Rime of The Ancient Mariner”:
“The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.
“I looked upon the rotting sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I looked upon the rotting deck,
And there the dead men lay.
Explain these lines in your own words; do not forget to say what part of the “Rime” they belong to and
who is speaking; also point out any linguistic or poetic device that you consider meaningful.
20 marzo 2015
Answer the following questions in no more ten lines each:
1. How similar to or different from a traditional ballad is the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?
2. How is the theme of children and childhood developed in Dickens’s novels? Refer to the extracts
that you have read and analysed.
3. In what terms did Charles Dickens describe Coketown where his novel “Hard Times” is set?
30 aprile 2015
Answer the following questions in no more ten lines each:
1. Charles Dickens presents his readers with a tragic-comic vision of the Victorian world. Describe how
this is true by referring to the extracts you have read from Hard Times.
2. “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
That is all.” (from the “Preface” to “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by O. Wilde): comment on these lines
in the light of Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic principles.
3. Explain how the theme of the double is developed in the novel by R. L. Stevenson “The Strange
Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”.