Thought and Religious Time Period

Ballade of the Outcasts The Ballade of the Outcasts is a poem that shows the real life roles of ordinary people. The author starts off with the men. He suggests that men lie with the wolves. I believe it's expressing that men were extremely hard working. Men were thought to be better than woman, which is why the author put them first. He also is saying that men work very hard until the day they die. The author then moves onto the topic of woman. When the author suggests that the woman watch the dawn with a sinful gaze, suggests that woman were performing sinful acts. He also suggests that they are always thinking of the past. They're never satisfied with the present. Woman are always going to think of the days when they were happy. "We seek death in the river's maze," is a intriguing line in the poem that makes you wonder why they're looking for death. Bringing an act Jesus had done shows that they this is a very religious time period. Children, as always portrayed with innocence. And in this poem it's expressing that children can be innocent, yet mistreated. The author states that the children are not sung to by their mothers and do not pray with their fathers, but they go from home to home. This could suggest that children were treated harshly. You can see that this poem was written in the realism period. It has the details that make up a human characteristics. This work expresses the harshly lives of certain people. This poem has a upsetting tone. There's not much happiness that comes from this poem, and it opens your eyes to realize what's really going on. There can be many poems on love and happiness, but they don't express what's life is really like.