Comparative Essay Between Two Ballads Ballad is a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship‚ having been passed orally from one generation to the next. Ballads are written for entertainment and meanwhile there is a moral theme. Each ballad has its own characters‚ settings‚ events‚ and theme. Here are two examples of ballads: "Robin Hood and the Three Squires" and "Get up and Bar the Door." Both have similarities and differences. There
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Explication of “Piers Plowman” by William Langland ENG/306 April 9‚ 2012 Shannon Loerch Explication of “Piers Plowman” by William Langland In the 14th century William Langland penned a poem entitled “Piers Plowman”. He used 111 lines of metered rhythm to illustrate a man’s quest for a stereotypical Christian life. Classified as a dramatic poem the manner in which the author describes this quest invokes an imaginative fever in the mind of the reader. The language used requires
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Text Explication and Facets of Poetic Genre Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare Professor C. Soldan Poetry is “the art of rhythmical composition‚ written or spoken‚ for exciting pleasure by beautiful‚ imaginative‚ or elevated thoughts”. This paper will focus on poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) who was famous in the Renaissance Period prior to the year 1750. Shakespeare was found to have 154 written sonnets‚ which dealt with themes such as the time‚ love‚ beauty and mortality. However‚ a personal
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“Bohemian Rhapsody”: A Ballad of Loss and Grief In Freddie Mercury’s song Bohemian Rhapsody‚ a young boy commits a crime and must face the effects of his actions. However‚ beyond the narrative told by the song‚ a deeper meaning about the writer and singer of Bohemian Rhapsody‚ Freddie Mercury‚ dealing with the grief of doing something that he views as a terrible act‚ and his loss of himself because of doing so is present. Because Mercury originally writes and sings the song‚ the “boy” that the song
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research focus from media-centered effects on people to the ways people use media to meet their needs. Some scholars even believe that the most prominent of the recent advances in media theory today has come from research in the U&G approach. In this explication paper‚ we firstly introduced the theory by looking at its historical development and key components‚ then further discussed of the importance of this theory and its implications for further development in mass communication research. Development
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A Sensual Experience: An Explication Of “Rime Of The Ancient Mariner” In what has been arguably identified as the beginning of the Romantic Movement‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge partnered with a close friend‚ William Wordsworth to put together a collection of poems titled Lyrical Ballads. One piece‚ in particular‚ is considered one of Coleridge’s most famous works. In the poem titled‚ “Rime Of The Ancient Mariner‚” a tale is told by a third person persona from the perspective of the poem’s protagonist
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An Explication of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost constructed this poem with four stanzas in iambic tetrameter. Frost’s rhyme scheme is intriguing; the first‚ second‚ and fourth lines of each stanza rhyme‚ where as the third rhymes with the next set of first‚ second‚ and fourth lines. Although‚ this pattern is broken in the fourth and final stanza‚ where Frost rhymes all the lines with the third line in the third stanza. To finish off the poem‚ the fifteenth line is repeated as
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1797 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to Alfoxden House‚ which was only a few miles from Coleridge’s home. The creative partnership between these two young poets would eventuate in the first publishing of Lyrical Ballads. <br> <br>The publication of Lyrical Ballads represented a turning point for English poetry. It was released anonymously on October 4th‚ 1798 and the learned old guard of literary England was mostly unaware that a form of "literary revolution" had taken place. Previous
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• Ballads usually tell a story. • Although the quatrain is often used‚ a sestet (six-line stanza) can also be employed e.g. Wilde’s ’The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ and Lewis Carroll’s ’The Walrus and the Carpenter’. Metre Rossetti tends to vary the metre within the poem to achieve different effects. In the opening stanza‚ Rossetti deviates from the traditional metric construction of the ballad stanza. The first and the third lines are
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Name Online English A November 11‚ 2013 Paper Component: Your Explication Middle Paragraphs In the poem “Ballade of Worldly Wealth‚” the author‚ Andrew Lang describes the truth about money and what it meant to people in the 1800s and 1900s. He uses repetition to clearly explain his ideas. Lang believes that money could either be good or it could be evil‚ I guess it all depends in how you use it and appreciate it. The people in this poem are priests‚ soldiers‚ captains etc. The main idea is
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