The Pathetic "Lover" The Ballad of the Sad Café‚ by Carson McCullers (1951) suggests that there are two types of people in the world: the "lover" and the "beloved". The "lover" is a pathetic character so enamored by the "beloved" that it changes his/her attitude or personality completely. The feeling is so powerful that even though it causes the "lover" excruciating pain‚ he/she continues to love. The two main characters fall under this mysterious spell and it changes their lives forever. McCullers
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To this day‚ ballads are still enjoyed by some individuals; many generations ago they were at the very heart of amusement. Passed on orally‚ they centred such interesting subjects as tragic love. Typically‚ although ballads are fairly simple‚ in that they do not tend to focus on characterization‚ they have a rapid dialogue‚ and are usually in the form of quatrains‚ and rhyming in abcb. As a traditional ballad "Bonny Barbara Allan" employs these traditional qualities and conventions: it is written
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Compare and contrast how love is presented within the two poems “Ballad: ‘The spring returns‚ the pewit screams’ by John Clare and ‘A Broken Appointment’ by Thomas Hardy. Both poets express their loss of love within these two pieces although different in many ways there are some obvious similarities‚ which may be due to the attitude of the age. For example the attitude towards women and what was expected of them during a romance and the reaction when this role is not fulfilled. In the 2nd and
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technique for developing our knowledge of their story‚ which makes us to think about the important issue and even broaden our prospective. Readers may interest in knowing how different characters feel toward a same event has happened. “The ballad of the drover” composed by Henry Lawson is written in the third narration format‚ and tend to be more detached and objective in advantage of being unbiased as “he fights with failing strength”. It allows the story to sound more authentic and neutral.
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Together “Ballad of the Drover” by Henry Lawson and Judith Wright’s “South Of My Days” provide a compelling insight into outback life around the turn of the 20th Century. Both ballads capture the innate hardship of the Australian outback within its striking beauty. Wright and Lawson are two of Australia’s most noted poets and continue to resonate with audiences by engaging their audience through strong imagery and powerful use of figurative language to create an emotive tale. Lawson’s “Ballad of the
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protagonists in The Female Transport‚ written by an anonymous author‚ The Drovers Wife by Hennery Lawson‚ and Journal by Annie Baxter‚ are three different representations of women in early Australian literature‚ in three different genera. Each representation is different‚ yet they are all clear representation of womanhood in early Australia. So are
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Australian Bush Ballads have captured the essence of early Australian life. Bush Ballads do more than this they often deal with the hardships encountered living on the land as well as the people of the bush. The poetry of “Henry Lawson” and “Banjo Paterson” deal with these concepts. While Banjo Paterson defends and romanticises the bush in his many ballads for example “Clancy of the Overflow”‚ Henry Lawson provides a more balanced view of the bush in his poems‚ in particular “Up the Country.”
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boomerangs‚ Crocodile Dundee‚ didgeridoo‚ crocodiles‚ dingoes‚ convicts‚ footy‚ Crocodile Hunter‚ the outback‚ g’day mate‚ crickey‚ bugger‚ etc. The Australian stereotypes that emerged from colonial texts‚ such as ‘The Man from Snowy River’‚ ‘The Ballad of the Drover’ and ‘The Wild Colonial Boy’‚ portrayed Australians as brave‚ courageous‚ passionate‚ determined‚ impulsive‚ proud and not to be underestimated. An example of Australians determination in ‘The Wild Colonial Boy’ is the following quote‚
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and his mother Rose Isabella. When Andrew Patterson was seven‚ his family moved to illalong‚ it is in this area that Patterson developed his lifelong enthusiasm for horses and horsemanship‚ and in the future‚ the writing of his famous equestrian ballads. From the age of 10 after transferring from a bush school at Binalong‚ Patterson attended the Sydney grammar school‚ where he achieved the junior Knox prize at the age of 16. Patterson failed the University of Sydney’s scholarship exam and as a result
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subject. In this essay I aim to analyse two documents in the form of ballads that were published in this period‚ and to describe how they played a part in constructing an image that could be used to define the nation and create a national identity; in their historical‚ social‚ economic and political context. Firstly‚ I will give a brief summary on each document. ‘Clancy of the Overflow’‚ written by Banjo Patterson was an Australian ballad about a droving bushman and the imaginings of his rural lifestyle
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