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    Alliteration used in the Drover’s Wife creates a sense of isolation “The two roomed house built from round timber slabs and stringy bark and floored with split slabs”‚ this gives us as a responder an image of the harsh living conditions faced by the drovers wife and her children. “Bush in bush all round bush with no horizon” and “nineteen miles to the nearest sign of civilization” are also examples of the isolation from society. In contrast‚ ‘The Loaded Dog” uses humor to portray visual

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    form (either a ballad or lyric poem). 2. Thesis statement: A general statement about what the poem communicates about life and life experience. 3. Signpost: briefly outline the more specific reasons for how/why the poem conveys this life experience and / or message. (Introduce the main features which will be explored in more detail in the body of your essay). | INTRODUCTION 1. “The Highwayman” is a ballad poem written by the author‚ Alfred Noyes. Many features of the ballad are evident in

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    *ΔLyric: Originally a lyric signified a song sung to the accompaniment of a lyre. Thus lyric still carries the sense of a poem written to be set to music. A lyric is a common short poem uttered by a single speaker who is expressing his state of mind very often in solitude. In dramatic lyric the speaker is represented as addressing another person in a specific situation like the poem Canonization by John Donne. The genre comprehends a great variety of utterances from say the Dramatic Monologues of

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    According to the ballads‚ Robin attended St. Mary’s church in Nottingham. Inside is a private chapel built and paid for by the city’s guildsmen among whom were knights‚ clerks‚ carpenters and drapers. Across the road is the market‚ and in King John’s day‚ the price of wool in Nottingham set the price of wool for the whole of England‚ such was its importance. Merchants travelled from far and wide to trade there despite the danger from Gisborne’s 1‚500 men‚ and Sir Walter Tailboys‚ who in partnership

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    love of the beautiful‚ mysterious and unattainable mistress. In the early nineteenth century‚ an interest in the ballad of earlier centuries was sparked by the romantic poets of the time‚ of which John Keats was one‚ and his poem‚ “La Belle Dame sans Merci‚” became a true example of what became known as a literary ballad. Similar to the popular folk ballad that was sung‚ a literary ballad sticks to the basics of repeated lines and stanzas “in a refrain‚ swift action with occasional surprise endings

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    life‚ and it is something that heavily impacts the nature of a society. Marriage is seen in society in both positive and negative ways‚ involving emotions from true love to bitterness. In the texts A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ by Khaled Hosseini‚ The Ballad of Calvary Street by James K Baxter‚ The Silk by Joy Cowley and Atonement directed by Joe Wright‚ this idea of the importance of marriage is clearly present in all of them‚ yet they are all shown so differently (negatively and positively) as to give

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    them and will always be in the form of first person. Ballad Stanza - In poetry‚ a Ballad stanza is the four-line stanza‚ known as a quatrain‚ most often found in the folk ballad. This form consists of alternating four- and three-stress lines. Usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme (in an “a/b/c/b” pattern). Assonance in place of rhyme is common. Ballad is a narrative folk song. The ballad is traced back to the Middle Ages. Ballads were usually created by common people and passed orally

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    friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge‚ and they both worked on a volume of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads‚ which was published 1798. Lyrical Ballads is said to have indicated the beginning of the Romantic Movement in English poetry. Wordsworth wrote the majority of the poems in the book‚ such as "Tintern Abbey". Coleridge’s main contribution was Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Lyrical Ballads was met with hostility from most critics‚ as it represented an uprising against contemporary English poetry

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    This analysis of ‘Festival Overture on Australian Themes’ written by Colin Brumby in 1981; will use the knowledge of the musical elements to explore how Brumby has created each of the characters in ‘Festival Overture on Australian Themes’ and how all of the themes in the piece have been linked together to create the work. The intro of the piece ‘Festival Overture on Australian Themes’ is uncertain in tonality‚ starting with a flourish of notes for six bars‚ using woodwinds and strings‚ over bass

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    Henry Lawson

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    history the Australian identity and its associated values have been represented through distinctively visual language. Henry Lawson uses many evocative and powerful language techniques to convey his thoughts and feelings. This is clearly shown in “the drovers wife” and “in a dry season”. Other narratives also utilise the many language techniques to convey the distinctively visual image and is shown in “the man from Snowy River” by Banjo Patterson. All three texts reveal both positive and negative values

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