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Ballads

Ballads . What is a ballad? . Form of verse, often a narrative set to music Passed along orally for generations through recitations Because of this, there are many structural variations of ballads Originally composed to accompany dances

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Ballads

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  1. Ballads

  2. What is a ballad? • Form of verse, often a narrative set to music • Passed along orally for generations through recitations • Because of this, there are many structural variations of ballads • Originally composed to accompany dances • Poems that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain

  3. Ballads continued • Relies on imagery rather than description • Subject matter: • Religious themes • Love • Tragedy • Domestic crimes • Political propaganda • Ballads do not tell the reader what’s happening, but rather show them • Often constructed in quatrain stanzas with the 2nd and 4th line rhyming, or all alternating lines

  4. Example of popular ballads Gilligan’s Island Theme Song! Gilligan’s Island Theme Song lyrics Annabel Lee (Not technically a ballad, but Poe referred to it as one…had repetition of words and phrases) Annabel Lee Lyrics

  5. The Unquiet grave ballad ''Tis I, my love, sits on your grave, And will not let you sleep; For I crave one kiss of your clay-cold lips, And that is all I seek.'— 'You crave one kiss of my clay-cold lips; But my breath smells earthy strong; If you have one kiss of my clay-cold lips, Your time will not be long. ''Tis down in yonder garden green, Love, where we used to walk, The finest flower that ere was seen Is wither'd to a stalk. 'The stalk is wither'd dry, my love, So will our hearts decay; So make yourself content, my love, Till God calls you away.' The Unquiet Grave 'The wind doth blow today, my love, And a few small drops of rain; I never had but one true-love; In cold grave she was lain. 'I'll do as much for my true-love As any young man may; I'll sit and mourn all at her grave For a twelvemonth and a day.' The twelvemonth and a day being up, The dead began to speak: 'Oh who sits weeping on my grave, And will not let me sleep?'—

  6. Many 19th century authors wrote ballads • Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth created a compilation of ballads entitled “Lyrical Ballads”

  7. Expostulation and reply- wordsworth "The eye--it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will. "Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. "Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking? "--Then ask not wherefore, here, alone, Conversing as I may, I sit upon this old grey stone, And dream my time away," "WHY, William, on that old grey stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone, And dream your time away? "Where are your books?--that light bequeathed To Beings else forlorn and blind! Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men to their kind. "You look round on your Mother Earth, As if she for no purpose bore you; As if you were her first-born birth, And none had lived before you!" One morning thus, by Esthwaite lake, When life was sweet, I knew not why, To me my good friend Matthew spake, And thus I made reply:

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