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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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    main 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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    their musical traits. This is commonly referred to as the European American Stream. There are a few common musical traits that the Europeans brought to America: ballads‚ call-and-response‚ and cantillation. Ballads are a type of song that tells a story centered around a historical event or a tragedy. The unique trait or characteristic of a ballad is its repeating melodies. These repeating melodies are known as strophic‚ or verse repeating. “One of the most widely performed songs in this centuries-old

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    (Traditional Scottish Ballad) Bonny Barbara Allan After reading the poem I decided to go ahead and write my essay on it. This poem really spark my interest because the poem itself had a lot of meaning but at the same time it also told a story just like what a song would do. If the story was about something amazing‚ it would be considered an epic story. If the story‚ that was told is something sad or usually about relationship then it would make the story a Ballad. This poem to me is a ballad‚ it has so

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    arrangement of words in regularly measured‚ patterned‚ or rhythmic lines or verses. Iambic pentameter: a kind of rhythmic pattern that consists of five iambs (a metrical foot that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one) per line. Ballad: a simple narrative poem of folk origin composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing. Stanza: grouped set of lines within a poem. Prosody: the study of metrical structure. Rhythm: a regular‚ repeated pattern of sounds or movements. Rhyme:

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    opens with a third person omniscient narrator: ‘It is an ancient Marinere‚ And he stoppeth one of three.’ This person represents Coleridge as he knows everything that is happening in the poem‚ and he is setting the scene for the rest of the lyrical ballad. Other people may take the view that the omniscient narrator represents God‚ as he is seen by religious people as the only person who can possibly be omniscient. This instantly injects elements of religion into the poem. The next stanza is narrated

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    Dystopian literature often presents the individual’s quest for meaning in hostile and oppressive worlds.’ To what extent do the writers present their protagonists as successful in this quest in ‘1984’ by George Orwell‚ ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ by Oscar Wilde and ‘Woman at Point Zero’ by Nawal El Saadawi? The assertion that all three writers present their protagonist as having a quest for meaning in a dystopian world cannot be disputed. However‚ the extent to which these writers present

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    Wordsworth ’s women: Female Creative power in Lyrical ballads. Retrieved November 15‚ 2005‚ from http://www.mtsn.org.uk/staff/staffpages/cer/wordsworth/creativity_the_feminine.htm Goslee‚ M.‚ N. (2002). Ethical and aesthetic alterity [Review of the book Slavery and the Romantic Imagination] University of Pennsylvania Press‚ 299-303 Wordsworth‚ W.(2002). The Complain of a forsaken Indian woman. In Richey‚ W.‚ & Robinson‚ D. (Eds). Lyrical ballads and related writings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Wordsworth

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    captains etc. The main idea is about how some and most people only do things for money. The “Ballad of Worldly Wealth‚” is a depiction of how money can bring pride and corruption into our society. The form of this poem is a ballad. A ballad’s contents include 3 stanzas‚ at least 8 lines in each stanza‚ and a refrain (a repeated phrase at the end point of a poem) a refrain in example of the Ballad of Worldly Wealth is “Youth‚ and health‚ and Paradise” The author used artificial imagery to characterize

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