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The POPULAR BALLAD

The POPULAR BALLAD. introduction. BROAD DIVISION OF POETRY Narrative poems Dramat ic poems Lyrics NARRATIVE POEMS = They tell a story (nowadays= novels) Epic poems (the Odyssey, the Iliad – 9th c. BC first written version Beowulf – 5 th c. AD, transcribed 7 th c. AD )

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The POPULAR BALLAD

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  1. The POPULAR BALLAD

  2. introduction BROAD DIVISION OF POETRY • Narrative poems • Dramatic poems • Lyrics • NARRATIVE POEMS = They tell a story (nowadays= novels) • Epic poems(the Odyssey, the Iliad – 9th c. BC first written version Beowulf– 5th c. AD, transcribed 7th c. AD) • Popular Ballads

  3. Narrative poetry STORY TELLING BEGAN IN VERSE AND IN THE ORAL FORM SPOKEN OR SUNG BY A POET or BARD or a MINSTREL and heard by a live audience Both the POPULAR BALLAD and the EPIC POEM have these oral origins

  4. POPULAR BALLADS • Anonymous • They started in the oral form (13th century, it flourished in the 14th and 15th ), later on transcribed and collected (18th century) They exist in different forms, in different countries • Very famous = the Border Ballads (originated around the English-Scottish border) and the Robin Hoodcycle

  5. STYLISTIC FEATURES • Compared to the last act of a play, just before the catastrophe (short span of time) • Simple, formulaic (stock) language (like “Once upon a time”, or “blood red wine”) • Begin in medias res (no background information, no setting or character description) • Form: usually dialogue: questions and answers format

  6. STYLISTIC FEATURES • Impersonal Narrator (no comments), If there is an I this “I” represents the community • Repetitions and Refrains (incremental repetitions, with variations which take the story forward with new details, stanza by stanza)

  7. COMMON LAYOUT • 4-line stanzas (quatrains) • Alternating lines of iambic tetrameters (4 stresses) and iambic trimesters (3 stresses) • Rhyme= ababorabcb

  8. SUBJECT MATTER • Usually DRAMATIC • Love and sexuality (usually mismatched couples), often Tragic love • The Magic and the supernatural • Betrayal, murder and revenge • Stories of heroism, battles, adventure

  9. 3 KINDS OF BALLADS • 1) POPULAR BALLADS • 2) BROADSIDE BALLADS= A large piece of paper printed on one side only. They were sold in country fairs, on the street, sung to popular tunes by the sellers to attract attention, = they dealt with current events, issues or scandals (the equivalent of contemporary tabloid or gossip papers) • 3) LITERARY BALLADS= written by famous poets imitating this style: see the Romantic poets • + (FOLK MUSIC IN THE SIXTIES(Joan Baez, Bob Dylan) have either written new ballads or sung traditional popular ballads)

  10. The BroadsideBallad

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