Ballade Of Worldly Wealth
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“Ballade of Worldly Wealth” written by Andrew Lang is set in the late 19th early 20th century in what seems like, due to imagery, a small religious town that is quickly being corrupted with the idea of money. The focus of Lang’s poem is to talk about how money can be good or evil and you can hear his remorse, negativity, and his sadness all throughout the poem. Reading the poem, I concluded that the audience is just the reader, Lang is the speaker but he isn’t speaking to anyone directly in the story, almost like a monologue. Studying the formation and the structure of the poem, its clearly a ballad, I say this because there is total of 24 lines that are equally divided into 3 stanzas. Noticeably there is a rhetorical pattern in this ballad. He uses words and that pretty much contradict each other, not to the extent of a double negative, more like an oxymoron. One example is …show more content…
Syntax is how the arrangements of the words or phrases make the sentences flow together in a certain language. The old style English the author used is pretty difficult to how the words flow, and then on top of that they need to make sense to the readers. An arrangement that worked very well in this piece is the parallel construction. Lang has made is flow in a way where the lines are paired in twos and the topic in both lines are agreeable. And sometimes the topic in the next pair of lines are completely opposite, yet there is still a sense of repetition throughout the stanzas. Which is why its called parallel construction, its how the stanzas are built into pairs and would geometrically be parallel to each other. But, the pairs are oppositions to each other, yet the syntax was worked out so well that even with the multiple oxymoron’s and the oppositions between the pairs it flows smoothly with a nice rhyme pattern at the end of each line, the form of this poem also contributes to the flow of the
“Ballade of Worldly Wealth” written by Andrew Lang is set in the late 19th early 20th century in what seems like, due to imagery, a small religious town that is quickly being corrupted with the idea of money. The focus of Lang’s poem is to talk about how money can be good or evil and you can hear his remorse, negativity, and his sadness all throughout the poem. Reading the poem, I concluded that the audience is just the reader, Lang is the speaker but he isn’t speaking to anyone directly in the story, almost like a monologue. Studying the formation and the structure of the poem, its clearly a ballad, I say this because there is total of 24 lines that are equally divided into 3 stanzas. Noticeably there is a rhetorical pattern in this ballad. He uses words and that pretty much contradict each other, not to the extent of a double negative, more like an oxymoron. One example is …show more content…
Syntax is how the arrangements of the words or phrases make the sentences flow together in a certain language. The old style English the author used is pretty difficult to how the words flow, and then on top of that they need to make sense to the readers. An arrangement that worked very well in this piece is the parallel construction. Lang has made is flow in a way where the lines are paired in twos and the topic in both lines are agreeable. And sometimes the topic in the next pair of lines are completely opposite, yet there is still a sense of repetition throughout the stanzas. Which is why its called parallel construction, its how the stanzas are built into pairs and would geometrically be parallel to each other. But, the pairs are oppositions to each other, yet the syntax was worked out so well that even with the multiple oxymoron’s and the oppositions between the pairs it flows smoothly with a nice rhyme pattern at the end of each line, the form of this poem also contributes to the flow of the