Ballads by Nureen, Jing & Pan

7/28/2019 Ballads by Nureen, Jing & Pan

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A ballad is a narrative poem that often retells the story

of an heroic deed, a legend or a recent event.


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Traditional / folk ballad

Broadside ballad

Literary ballad


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Traditional ballad is folk art (older in origin than the othertwo).

The authors of traditional ballads are unknown, since

they were belonged to the oral tradition.

Anonymous and transmitted from singer to singer by

word of mouth.

Folk ballads are meant to be sung.


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Written form of a ballad

Murder ballads are broadside ballad

- told from the killers point of view.


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Sophisticated form of ballad

Written piece by a single poet, who purposely chooses

the types of themes found in folk ballads and imitatestheir form.

Literary ballads are to be read


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Simple language The writers feature language that readers can understand easily

without repeated readings.

Stories tend to be narrative poems.

Tells stories / record history

Third-person omniscient / objective narration. Usually do not speak in the first person (unless speaking as acharacter in the story)

Narrators often do not comment on their reactions to the emotionalcontent of the ballad.


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Ballad stanzas

Quatrain (4 lines)

Rhyme scheme : abab / abcb

In traditional ballad, the first and third lines have four

stresses while the second and fourth have three. Example of a stanza from "Sir Patrick Spens :

'I saw the new moon late yestreen

With the auld moon in her arm;

And if we gang to sea, master,I fear we'll come to harm.

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/poetry/poems/the_ballad_of_sir_patrick_spens.html


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Dialogue

Ballads often incorporate multiple characters into their stories.

Speaker indicated by change in voice during performance.


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Repetition

Often has a refrain.

A repeated section that divides segments of the story.

Employ incremental repetition

(A small part of the repeated segment changes as the storyprogresses.)

For a classic example of incremental repetition in Lord Randall.


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"Oh where ha'e ye been, Lord Randall, my son!

And where ha'e ye been, my handsome young man!"

"I ha'e been to the wild wood: mother, make my bed soon,

For I'm wearied wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down."

"An wha met ye there, Lord Randall, my son?

An wha met you there, my handsome young man?"

"I dined wi my true-love; mother, make my bed soon,

For I'm wearied wi hunting, and fain wad lie doon."


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"And what did she give you, Lord Randall, my son?And what did she give you, my handsome young man?""Eels fried in broo; mother, make my bed soon,For I'm wearied wi hunting, and fain wad lie doon."

"And wha gat your leavins, Lord Randall, my son?

And wha gat your leavins, my handsome young man?""My hawks and my hounds; mother, make my bed soon,For I'm wearied wi hunting, and fain wad lie doon."

"What become a yer bloodhounds, Lord Randall, my son?What become a yer bloodhounds, my handsome young man?""They swelled and they died; mother, make my bed soon,

For I'm weary wi huntin, and fain wad lie doon."

"O I fear ye are poisoned, Lord Randall, my son!I fear ye are poisoned, my handsome young man!""O yes, I am poisoned; mother, make my bed soon,For I'm sick at m' heart, and I fain wad lie doon."

by Anonymous


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Have an orientation complication and resolution

Often have a tragic and sad ending may contain verses

or stanzas of four lines (quatrains)

May contain repetition of stanzas or repeated lines wherea certain word is changed

Can have a question and answer format

(one stanza presents the question and the next one

answers the question)


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Usually have a rhyming pattern of either abac, aabb or

abcb

Example : Scottish Music Traditional Ballad Twa Corbies

As I was walking all alane,

I heard twa corbies makin' a mane

The tane untae the tither did sayo where shall we gang and dine the day?


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language that focuses on actions and dialogue

language that indirectly conveys information about thecharacters,relationships, events, time period and setting

often written in third or first person

have a regular beat (metrical) structure

are often written in complete sentences

language that is selected to convey a particular mood orevokean emotional response.


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