Lecture 3 Literature in the 14-15 th centuries
The Classification of Ballads
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The Classification of Ballads
According to the most popular version all the traditional ballads can be divided into 3 groups: Riddling Ballads. The traditional lore (знание) & magical knowledge are to be found in them. Although most of them are simply ballads, they sometimes conceal the shadows of ancient native British traditions. For example, many of them contain riddles or questions which is very typical of British tales. The characters are to answer the questions in order to win the fight, to pass the monsters, to save themselves or their friends. Necromantic Ballads. These are the remains of an ancient necromantic tradition of the crossing of the threshold between life and death. In fact, Necromancy means the discovery of information or seeking for advice from the dead. The dead have already got the wisdom which one can get only when he leaves that world. Other World Ballads. They deal with other world and with a journey of a human into it whether by privilege or by enslavement. These ballades were originally collected in the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century from oral traditions from all over England and Ireland SUPPLEMENT FOLK BALLADS A folk ballad is a popular literary form. It comes from unlettered people rather than from-professional minstrels or scholarly poets. That is why the ballad tends to express its meaning in simple language. (But the centuries-old dialect of many folk ballads may seem to readers complex). The ballad stanza consists of four lines (a quatrain), rhyming abcb, with four accented syllables within the first and third lines and three in the second and fourth lines. There "lived a "wife at "Usher's "Well, a And a "wealthy "was "she; b She had "three "stout and "stalwart "sons, c And "sent them "o'er the "sea. b Some folk ballads make use of refrains, repetitions of a line or lines in every stanza without variation. Refrains add emphasis and a note of continuity to the ballads. As regards to content, the ballads are usually divided into three groups: historical, heroic, and romantic ballads. Historical ballads were based on a historical fact, while heroic ballads were about people who were persecuted by the law or by their own families. Among the most popular ones were those about Robin Hood, who was an outlaw. Download 457.2 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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