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    Ballads Are

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    Ballads are poems that tell a story. These ballads are distinguished by such features as few characters‚ dramatic plots‚ and may include dialogue‚ as well as action because it tells a story. They are considered to be a form of narrative poetry. They are often used in songs and have a very musical quality to them. According to the dictionary‚ Ballad is a narrative poem‚ often of folk origin and intended to be sung‚ consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain. It is the music for such

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    Ballad Illustration by Arthur Rackham of the ballad The Twa Corbies A ballad is a form of verse‚ often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas‚ Australia and North Africa. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet broadsides. The form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards

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    Directions:  Analyze each stanza of each ballad and summarize the stanza in a few well written sentences.  "Lord Randall" Stanza 1 The mother asks Randall where he has been and he replies to the woods to prepare to die because he is tired of hunting. Stanza 2   The mother made food and wants Randall to eat‚ but he already ate over his love house‚ he is too tired as he went to bed. Stanza 3   Randall seen a yellow snake‚ his mother fixed his bed ‚ he went to bed Stanza 4   Randall got bitten

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    particularly those included in Ballad of the Sad Café. McCullers’ protagonists struggle to follow socially acceptable behaviour and these characters form bizarre concepts of love and relationships‚ ones that are skewed from that of a “normal” person’s perception. For characters such as Amelia Evans‚ this lifestyle results in isolation and loneliness‚ but regardless‚ new relationships are formed. A novella that is based in a remote and desolate town of Georgia‚ Ballad of the Sad Café revolves around

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    Symbolism in “The Ballad of Birmingham” Written in 1969‚ Dudley Randall’s poem “The Ballad of Birmingham” illustrates a mothers struggle to keep her young daughter away from harm during a civil rights rally in Birmingham. Throughout the poem‚ symbols such as a church‚ a child‚ and a shoe represent African-Americans and their fight against segregation. These symbols represent the struggle for equality during civil rights movement in the 1960s‚ and how these events changed the lives of blacks in

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    Spanish Ballad

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    To what extent‚ and in which ways‚ does the Spanish ballad deal with the major human emotions? The collective body of Spanish ballads‚ known as the romancero‚ is a unique collection of narrative verse that follows the epic tradition‚ like such works as El cantar de mio Cid‚ and whose earliest examples are thought to have come at the beginning of the 14th century. They resemble the epics in their heroic and aristocratic tone‚ and some also in their themes of battle and honour. Many are written

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    Ballad of Birmingham By: Dudley Randall For many years‚ this country has been unjust and humanity has not always been treated equally. Dudley Randall‚ who is most famous for his literary contributions‚ wrote a poem called "Ballad of Birmingham" representing the inequality and racism during the early 1960’s (Encyclopedia.com). The main themes of the poem are racism and the struggle of African Americans around the time of the civil rights movement in 1964 (Encyclopedia.com). Randall’s poem focuses

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    Preface to Lyrical Ballads Analysis William Wordsworth was an English romantic poet‚ who helped launch the romantic poetry era‚ along with his counterpart Samuel Coleridge. In his “Preface to Romantic Ballads‚” Wordsworth provides his audience of an understanding of his style of poetry. In fact he strays away from the complex‚ verbose and mind-boggling poetry presented before his time‚ ascribing to the statement written by David Thoreau in “Walden”‚ “Simplicity‚ Simplicity‚ Simplicity!” Even though

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    Literature 3rd lecture “Ballad” The characters in the epic according to Aristotle should be consistence. The ballad is the second kind of the narrative verse. (The 1st is the epic). 2 examples were discussed 1st example is an old one in the medieval ages (Sir Patrick Spence) 2nd in the 20th century (Ballad of the Landlord) What is the ballad? “Definition” It is a poem but it should be written in verse‚ it’s meant to be sung‚ even if it’s a tragedy. For example‚ in Ireland it is still

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    Voices are powerful things. A whisper can destroy a friendship; a scream can terrify an audience. Without a voice‚ would we even be noticed? The way you speak often tells others more about yourself than what you actually say. It reveals how you understand the world and others. Composers‚ guided by their contexts and personal opinions‚ create distinctive voices through the distinct use of literary techniques to convey unique perspectives on others and the world. Banjo Paterson’s poems‚ ‘In Defence

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