Modest Proposal
Jennifer Hernandez
British Literature and Composition
Mrs. Roller
December 28, 2012
Ballade of Wordly Wealth
In the poem Ballade of Wordly Wealth by Andrew Lang has a straight forward subject. It speaks about money and how money can buy everything. This gives the tone or mood in the poem a serious outlook of what money is basically all about. The speaker which is the own author himself, expressing on money and what money does to community or society. It doesn’t give information of the setting but during the time frame of in the poem was written it probably was written during the medieval times. The form of the poem I would say it’s a ballade type of poem. To resume the poem speaks about how wealth and the churches ruled everything. The people never went against the churches words. If you did you’ll probably be executed. The churches were being paid, to conclude wealth destroy community. The structure of the poem Ballade of Wordly Wealth can be demonstrated as a poem that talks about the wealth and the churches during that time period and how they abused their power. Andrew Lang tried to make it into a ballade with rhythm and medieval ballade vocabulary. It gives illustration. Also clues of what might be the time frame on this poem.
The author Andrew Lang wrote this poem in vocabulary of the late medieval ballade. This explains the rhythm in each line for example “money taketh town and wall, fort and ramp without a blow, money moves the merchants all, while the tides shall ebb and flow. So each line has a rhythm flowing through the poem.
This gives a more an understanding about the poem. But the meaning of the poem is basically about the wealth on the churches. The words priest, Cardinal, and money gives the meaning of what the poem is about. How money can destroy the town or the community. The author is illustrating these actions in his poem. The churches can become very low to stay good in common goods with the kings. Reading the poem can conclude
British Literature and Composition
Mrs. Roller
December 28, 2012
Ballade of Wordly Wealth
In the poem Ballade of Wordly Wealth by Andrew Lang has a straight forward subject. It speaks about money and how money can buy everything. This gives the tone or mood in the poem a serious outlook of what money is basically all about. The speaker which is the own author himself, expressing on money and what money does to community or society. It doesn’t give information of the setting but during the time frame of in the poem was written it probably was written during the medieval times. The form of the poem I would say it’s a ballade type of poem. To resume the poem speaks about how wealth and the churches ruled everything. The people never went against the churches words. If you did you’ll probably be executed. The churches were being paid, to conclude wealth destroy community. The structure of the poem Ballade of Wordly Wealth can be demonstrated as a poem that talks about the wealth and the churches during that time period and how they abused their power. Andrew Lang tried to make it into a ballade with rhythm and medieval ballade vocabulary. It gives illustration. Also clues of what might be the time frame on this poem.
The author Andrew Lang wrote this poem in vocabulary of the late medieval ballade. This explains the rhythm in each line for example “money taketh town and wall, fort and ramp without a blow, money moves the merchants all, while the tides shall ebb and flow. So each line has a rhythm flowing through the poem.
This gives a more an understanding about the poem. But the meaning of the poem is basically about the wealth on the churches. The words priest, Cardinal, and money gives the meaning of what the poem is about. How money can destroy the town or the community. The author is illustrating these actions in his poem. The churches can become very low to stay good in common goods with the kings. Reading the poem can conclude