Analizzare un testo narrativo non è mai un’operazione immediata. A differenza della poesia, dove la struttura e le figure retoriche spesso “saltano agli occhi”, la prosa si muove in modo più fluido e meno visibile: significati, temi e scelte stilistiche sono intrecciati alla storia e ai personaggi, e richiedono attenzione, metodo e allenamento per essere messi a fuoco. Proprio per questo motivo, è importante avvalersi di una guida per orientarsi nella complessità del testo, a scomporlo nei suoi elementi essenziali e a leggerlo in modo più consapevole e profondo. In questo post presento una scheda per l'analisi di un testo narrativo, da vedere non come una gabbia rigida ma come un metodo per osservare il testo con ordine, coglierne i meccanismi narrativi e trasformare la lettura in uno strumento di comprensione critica. CONTESTUALIZZAZIONE Autore: ___________________________________________________ Titolo dell'opera: ____________________________________________ ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Devon in 1772.
When he was eight his father died and he was ent to Christ's Hospital, a charity school in London.
In 1791 he attended Cambridge University and left it in 1794 without graduating.
In 1797 Coleridge settled at Somerset where William Wordsworth lived.
This was the beginning of the intellectual collaboration between the two poets that produced Lyrical Ballads, a collection which included Coleridge's most famous poem: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The years 1799-1810, when the two poets settled in the Lake District, were full of frustration for Coleridge to the point that he took large quantities of opium and quarelled with Wordsworth.
He died in 1834.
Coleridge's poems, referred to as the "demonic poems", share the presence of the supernatural in various forms. They are all dreams of haunted souls, and behind their exotic richness and half-magical lands, we sense that mysterious forces are at play, which conduct the choices of men.
These poems maybe seen as nightmares of passivity: the characters don't act but is acted upon.
Coleridge is the perfect example of a complex Romantic personality: an unfulfilled genius who never fully realized his potential in his poems.
Against the Empiricism, he held views of the creative mind as capable of recreating the world of the senses.
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