William Wordsworth Flashcards
That floats on high (trad.)
Che fluttua in alto
At a glance (trad.)
A prima vista
Sprightly (trad.)
Festosa
But they out-did the sparkling waves in glee
Ma loro superavano le onde spumeggianti in gioia
as a cloud
simile
crowd/host (trad.)
schiera/moltitudine
continuous (trad.)
costanti
and twinkle on the milky way (trad.)
e scintillano nella via lattea
I gazed (trad.)
Guardavo a lungo / fissavo
that inward eye (trad. e sign.)
l’occhio interiore.
Through this he observes nature and it’s as important as the outer eye
the bliss of solitude (trad.)
la beatitudine della solitudine
The poet wandered as a cloud, a “host” of daffodils (sign.)
the poet and Nature exchange roles
ten thousand
numbers, as movements, are much important and attract the attention of the poet
he chooses incidents from common life
is an ordinary walk in the lake district
language really used by men
it’s not complex
throw over them a certain colouring of imagination
daffodils become like joyful dancers
what is a poet?
a poet is a person who can contemplate and see the unusual in the ordinary
the poet on his couch…
he thinks about the emotions the nature brought to him. These emotions are recollected in tranquillity and another emotion arises. In this state the composition can begin
what did he write in the preface of lyrical ballads’
he explains his views on poetry. he wanted to write situations from common life with a simple language and, at the same time, colouring over them a certain colouring of imagination. In this way ordinary things would become unusual
My heart leaps up when I behold (trad.)
Il mio cuore sobbalza quando vedo
Bound each to each by natural piety (trad.)
legati uno all’altro dalla fede nella natura
Yon solitary Highland Lass! (trad.)
quella solitaria ragazza scozzese!
she cuts and binds the grain (trad.)
lei taglia e lega il grano
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt
nessun usignolo mai cantò note più gradite a stanchi gruppi di viaggiatori in qualche oasi ombrosa
