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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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    Jordan Lindberg Akhmatova Explications CIVT 200: Looney Explication 1: “Epilogue I” Requiem: a Mass for the repose of the souls of the dead— a token of remembrance. Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem is a lamentation‚ a narration of grief-stricken oppressed during Stalin’s reign of terror. It is difficult to analyze single parts of Requiem‚ as each poem is vital to the other—one cohesive tale. The main body of Akhmatova’s Requiem is individual‚ Akhmatova focusing on the torment caused by her son’s imprisonment

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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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    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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    French poem by Alain Chartier which belongs to the tradition of courtly love. Keats appropriates this phrase for a ballad which has been generally read as the story of a seductive and treacherous woman who tempts men away from the real world and then leaves them‚ their dreams unfulfilled and their lives blighted. For all the beguiling simplicity of the surfaces of this literary ballad‚ it is one of the most difficult of Keats’s poems to explain‚ and open to many interpretations. It has been alternately

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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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