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    all genres and with all different meanings‚ writers use many different elements to piece together works of art creating ballads to please anyone who listens. A ballad is a song or songlike poem that tells a story in a rhythmic way. “Remembering Sunday” by All Time Low is a heart breaking song that expresses the torment that someone feels when they lose someone they love. This ballad tells the story of a man’s suffering within its tragic story line using the characteristics of refrain‚ a question-and-answer

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    decide whether or not Mulan was a historical person. However‚ I found that some of the facts in her story are based on historical events that date to the Northern Wei dynasty period (386-534). Mulan is the heroine in the Ballad of Mulan (木蘭辭). At the very beginning of the ballad‚ Mulan was weaving at her loom room. From the first sentence‚ “Click‚ clack. Click‚ clack‚” I know that Mulan was weaving‚ when suddenly‚ the sound of loom and shuttle stopped‚ and instead Mulan sighed‚ because she saw her

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    The Ode of Heroine: Mulan

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    and her romantic life was written in a ballad named as The ballad of Mulan which came down to us today. This type of literature called Yuefu which means a Chinese poem composed in a folk song style. Additionally‚ this term originally literally meant “Music Bureau”‚ a reference to the imperial Chinese governmental organization originally charged with collecting or writing the lyrics (web). The ballad of Mulan is one of the most famous ballad in the Yuefu Ballads which compiled by the Guo Maoqian in

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    Ballade Handout

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    “The French forms have been generally considered much more demanding of the English-speaking poet than forms such as sonnets and ballads.” – Judith Barrington The Ballade (“bah-LAHD”) Introduction 1. The term Ballade stems from the Latin word “ballare “ which means to dance. 2. Ballades grew out of the songs of the French troubadours 3. The ballade is considered “the most important of the OF fixed forms and the dominant verseform of OF poetry in the 14th and 15th cs” (Brogan 24). 4. Poets such

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    The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond The ballad of Charlotte Dyamond is a story about a girl‚ which gets murdered by her Psycho (AND crippled) boyfriend‚ Matthew Weeks. Charlotte Dymond‚ a domestic servant aged eighteen‚ was murdered near Rowtor Ford on Bodwin Moor on Sunday 14 April 1844 by her young man: a crippled farm-hand‚ Matthew Weeks‚ aged twenty-two. A stone marks the spot. The story goes as this Charlotte Dyamond went out on Sunday the 14th in April with her boyfriend‚ as the

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    Spanish Ballad

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    To what extent‚ and in which ways‚ does the Spanish ballad deal with the major human emotions? The collective body of Spanish ballads‚ known as the romancero‚ is a unique collection of narrative verse that follows the epic tradition‚ like such works as El cantar de mio Cid‚ and whose earliest examples are thought to have come at the beginning of the 14th century. They resemble the epics in their heroic and aristocratic tone‚ and some also in their themes of battle and honour. Many are written

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    Notes on Ballads

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    Literature 3rd lecture “Ballad” The characters in the epic according to Aristotle should be consistence. The ballad is the second kind of the narrative verse. (The 1st is the epic). 2 examples were discussed 1st example is an old one in the medieval ages (Sir Patrick Spence) 2nd in the 20th century (Ballad of the Landlord) What is the ballad? “Definition” It is a poem but it should be written in verse‚ it’s meant to be sung‚ even if it’s a tragedy. For example‚ in Ireland it is still

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    Bridal Ballad

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    Bridal Ballad (1837) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The ring is on my hand‚ And the wreath is on my brow; Satin and jewels grand Are all at my command‚ And I am happy now. And my lord he loves me well; But‚ when first he breathed his vow‚ I felt my bosom swell- For the words rang as a knell‚ And the voice seemed his who fell In the battle down the dell‚ And who is happy now. But he spoke to re-assure me‚ And he kissed my pallid brow‚ While a reverie came o’er me‚ And to the church-yard

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    Ballad of Birmingham By: Dudley Randall For many years‚ this country has been unjust and humanity has not always been treated equally. Dudley Randall‚ who is most famous for his literary contributions‚ wrote a poem called "Ballad of Birmingham" representing the inequality and racism during the early 1960’s (Encyclopedia.com). The main themes of the poem are racism and the struggle of African Americans around the time of the civil rights movement in 1964 (Encyclopedia.com). Randall’s poem focuses

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    Andrew Lang

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    The world revolves around currency‚ in reality we all use money in our everyday life we are making it‚ spending it or saving it. Andrew Lang wrote “Ballade of Wordly Wealth‚” through repetition in this poem we learn about the people in the 1800s and 1900s and what they thought about money. What money can buy a person is the idea of the first six lines of each stanza. But the thought of what money cannot buy is always revisited. At the end of each stanza a refrain is made “Youth‚ and health‚ and

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