William Wordsworth

Question 1

That floats on high (trad.)

Answer 1

Che fluttua in alto

Question 2

At a glance (trad.)

Answer 2

A prima vista

Question 3

Sprightly (trad.)

Answer 3

Festosa

Question 4

But they out-did the sparkling waves in glee

Answer 4

Ma loro superavano le onde spumeggianti in gioia

Question 5

as a cloud

Answer 5

simile

Question 6

crowd/host (trad.)

Answer 6

schiera/moltitudine

Question 7

continuous (trad.)

Answer 7

costanti

Question 8

and twinkle on the milky way (trad.)

Answer 8

e scintillano nella via lattea

Question 9

I gazed (trad.)

Answer 9

Guardavo a lungo / fissavo

Question 10

that inward eye (trad. e sign.)

Answer 10

l’occhio interiore.

Through this he observes nature and it’s as important as the outer eye

Question 11

the bliss of solitude (trad.)

Answer 11

la beatitudine della solitudine

Question 12

The poet wandered as a cloud, a “host” of daffodils (sign.)

Answer 12

the poet and Nature exchange roles

Question 13

ten thousand

Answer 13

numbers, as movements, are much important and attract the attention of the poet

Question 14

he chooses incidents from common life

Answer 14

is an ordinary walk in the lake district

Question 15

language really used by men

Answer 15

it’s not complex

Question 16

throw over them a certain colouring of imagination

Answer 16

daffodils become like joyful dancers

Question 17

what is a poet?

Answer 17

a poet is a person who can contemplate and see the unusual in the ordinary

Question 18

the poet on his couch…

Answer 18

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

Question 19

what did he write in the preface of lyrical ballads’

Answer 19

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

Question 20

My heart leaps up when I behold (trad.)

Answer 20

Il mio cuore sobbalza quando vedo

Question 21

Bound each to each by natural piety (trad.)

Answer 21

legati uno all’altro dalla fede nella natura

Question 22

Yon solitary Highland Lass! (trad.)

Answer 22

quella solitaria ragazza scozzese!

Question 23

she cuts and binds the grain (trad.)

Answer 23

lei taglia e lega il grano

Question 24

No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt

Answer 24

nessun usignolo mai cantò note più gradite a stanchi gruppi di viaggiatori in qualche oasi ombrosa

Question 25

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

trad.

Answer 25

le note dolenti scorrono

Question 26

o’er the sickle bending (trad.)

Answer 26

chinarsi sulla falce

Question 27

as I mounted up the hill (trad.)

Answer 27

appena ho risalito la collina