“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (fotocopia)

ISIS “PIO PASCHINI” – TOLMEZZO
PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E CIVILTA’ INGLESE
CLASSE V A – 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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David Herbert Lawrence (pp. 392-394):
 from “Sons and Lovers” (pp. 394-396)
James Joyce (pp.373-374):
 from “Dubliners”: “Eveline” (fotocopia)
 from “Dubliners”: “The Dead”: an extract (p. 375-378)
 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
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L’insegnante
James Joyce e il “modernismo” sono stati presentati e studiati nelle prime settimane di scuola, nel mese di
settembre, in preparazione al viaggio di istruzione a Dublino, a cui gli alunni hanno partecipato nel mese di
ottobre 2014.
Allegato 2
Quesiti assegnati nei compiti in classe
29 ottobre 2014
Answer the following questions in no more than six to ten lines each:
1. Two images are particularly relevant in James Joyce’s short story “Eveline”, dust and the sea. What
do they represent in reference to her present and future? What images come to her mind about the
past?
2.What is meant by “epiphany”? Give examples of how Joyce uses it in “Eveline” and “The Dead”.
3. Explain the metaphor contained in the title of James Joyce’s most famous work, “Ulysses”.
3 dicembre 2014
Answer the following questions in no more than six to ten lines each:
1. Considering the passages taken from James Joyce’s works you have read, explain the relationship
the writer had with his hometown Dublin.
2. Analyse the character of Victor Frankenstein in the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley.
3. How is the sense of horror achieved in the passage from “Frankenstein” that you have read and
analysed?
4 febbraio 2015
1. 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.
2. According to W. Wordsworth, what should poetry deal with? What language should be used in
poetry and why?
3. 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.
18 marzo 2015
Answer the following questions in no more ten lines each:
1. Describe the physical and spiritual loneliness of the protagonist of the Rime of The Ancient Mariner
by S. T. Coleridge.
2. Explain the concept of “respectability” as meant by the Victorians.
3. Dickens wrote “Oliver Twist” to criticize the Poor Law of 1834 (which established the institution of
workhouses). From what you have read, say which devices the author uses to make this denunciation
effective.
29 aprile 2015
Answer the following questions in no more ten lines each:
1. Explain why the figure of Mr. Gradgrind is a perfect example of those grotesque* caricatures typical
of Dickens’s novels.
2. Referring to “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by O. Wilde, describe Dorian’s different reactions on
seeing his finished portrait: what images does the author use to convey the protagonist’s feelings and
sensations?
3. Why did R. L. Stevenson choose the name of “Mr. Hyde” for the alter-ego of the protagonist of the
novel “The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”? Explain also referring to the main theme of
the novel.
[*grotesque = extremely ugly in a strange way that is often frightening or amusing]