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Similarities in Ballads, 2005.
Discusses the similarities between traditional and modern ballads.
950 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 19.95
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By analyzing and comparing traditional and modern ballads, some characteristics of traditional ballads imitated by modern ballad writers can be found. The examples of the former are "Sir Patrick Spens" and "Lord Rendal," and those of the latter are "The Murder of Maria Marten" and "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall. The discussion of the similarities between these four ballads in this paper focuses on the structure of a ballad stanza, the use of repetition and the manner of story-telling.
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"Another interesting similarity between the ages of ballads is in the objectivity in which the stories are told. The composer has little emotional reactions and the focus is on the events of the story rather than the effects on the storyteller. In a ballad, therefore, the personality of the narrator is not important. The dialogue in "Ballad of Birmingham," which takes place between a mother and her young daughter, gives an example of a rhyme using a question and answer pattern (Laws 59-60). The little girl asks if she may "go downtown" to join "a Freedom March today?" and the mother answers, "No, baby, no, you may not go" ("Ballad of Birmingham" 1, 4-5)."
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"Preface to Lyrical Ballads", 2004.
An analysis of William Wadsworth's "Preface to Lyrical Ballads", in which Wadsworth explores what he believes to be the search for truth in art.
1,247 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 25.95
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This paper examines Wadsworth's view that the creation of poetry is an outward expression of an inner emotion or experience. The paper cites text from "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" to illustrate this view and how Wadsworth is able to prove his point.
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"Wordsworth begins his ?preface to Lyrical Ballads? by focusing on issues of style. He claims, ?Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language? (18). He believes that feelings ?coexist in a state of greater simplicity? (18) and, as a result, are ?more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated? (18). From this perspective, Wordsworth is aiming the success of poetry as an art form at the human experience. His premise depends on the notion that poetry is meant to be a communication tool first and foremost. As a result, it is the responsibility of the poet to express him or herself in a manner appropriate. Wordsworth is correct in assuming that unless readers can gain pleasure from reading something they do not understand, the poet should descend from his or her ?supposed height? and ?express himself as other men express themselves? (23). This statement lies at the very heart of Wordsworth?s notion."
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Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, 2002.
An essay examining Wordsworth's poetry.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 21.95
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This paper examines how Wordsworth renders to others the extraordinary joy which he gleaned from nature. The poems used to illustrate this are "Michael", "Resolution and Independence" and "The Idiot Boy".
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Essential Characteristics of the Ballad, 2005.
This paper looks at the essential characteristics of the ballad form.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 23.95
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This paper examines the essentials of the ballad form, including the motif, theme, variance, rhyme, meter, repetition, vocabulary and structure. The paper compares the ballads of Sir Patrick Spence and John Henry based on these properties.
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"Ballads are stories set to music and they usually have verses consisting of four lines each, but this can be extended to six lines, with sometimes a longer verse being inserted among the shorter ones. The ballad was originally an oral tradition and the use of traditional motifs and phrases was relied on heavily to flesh out the stories of the ballad."
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"Ulalume: A Ballad" Analysis, 2002.
This paper is a biography of Edgar Allan Poe and a critical analysis of his poem "Ulalume: A Ballad".
1,450 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 9 sources, £ 28.95
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This paper is a biography of Edgar Allan Poe along with a literary analysis of his poem "Ulalume: A Ballad". This essay includes an extensive biographical sketch of Poe to perhaps aid the reader to better understand his works. In addition, the author examines Poe?s use of rhyme scheme, meter, and repetition, and overall interpretation of Poe?s intended meaning.
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"The poet and critic, Edgar Allan Poe is considered one of the greatest American authors to have ever written throughout literary history. He composed many short stories and poems from the late 1820?s to his death in 1849. Because of the believed complex nature of his psyche, it is vital that the reader know Poe?s background and influences in order to analyze his poetry properly."
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?The Ballad of the Sad Cafe", 2004.
A review of ?The Ballad of the Sad Cafe? by Carson McCullers.
721 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 0 sources, £ 15.95
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This paper examines how "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" by Carson McCullers is an interesting tale that focuses on strange nature of the emotion called love. It looks at how it deals with interesting yet complicated relationship between three people who are not our average protagonists where looks and appearance are concerned. It also discusses how relationships play an important role for the simple reason that author has taken up the uniqueness of this emotion of love as the central theme.
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"Miss Amelia is not our usual female protagonist because she is neither beautiful nor rich. She is an ordinary woman with less than average looks and an unusual appearance. About 6'1 tall, she is not very feminine but is well respected in her town because of her small store where she sells wine. Marvin Macy is a handsome man who lacks morals since he is an outlaw and has often been convicted of stealing and robbing. However for some inexplicable reason, he falls in love with Miss Amelia and this brings us to the strangeness of this emotion."
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Randall's Ironic Ballad, 2004.
This paper explains Dudley Randall's poem "Ballad of Birmingham."
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 18.95
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The paper discusses Dudley Randall's poem, "Ballad of Birmingham," with an emhasis on the irony in the poem.
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"In Dudley Randall's poem "Ballad of Birmingham" he actively portrays the life and death of one young girl in the space of eight quatrains. Martin Luther King Jr's church in Birmingham, Alabama was actually bombed by white terrorists. Four little girls died in the explosion. This poem is based on the real life events of that attack."
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"Ballad of Birmingham", 2002.
An overview of this 1963 poem about the death of a girl in a church.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 15.95
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"Ballad of Birmingham" is a poem written about a mother that tells her daughter to not march in the streets and allows her to go to a church. Sadly, the girl is killed at the church. This actually happened in Birmingham in 1963.
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Langston Hughes' ?Ballad of the Landlord?, 2002.
This paper analyzes Hughes poem about society's prejudice toward African-Americans.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 0 sources, £ 13.95
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The paper begins with a brief summary of the poem?s plot, tone and message. The poem?s musicality and rhythm is discussed, as is the effectiveness of the dialogue form. The purpose and meaning of the series of questions in the poem is explored. The paper concludes by looking at the use of exclamation marks instead of question marks in the later portion of the poem, along with two-line stanzas instead of four.
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"Langston Hughes?s father was the first black man to be elected to public office, in 1855. Therefore, the poet was heavily influenced by his experiences with racism and the relatively recent repeal of slavery. However, when Hughes wrote ?Ballad of the Landlord? in 1943, he reflects society?s continued prejudice toward African-Americans. ?Ballad of the Landlord? is a sad allusion to the suppression of blacks in America. It progresses through a dialogue between the narrator and his landlord, who neglects his duties but continues to demand rent monies. The black narrator takes issue with the landlord, who calls the police instead of addressing the leaky roof and broken steps. The frustrated tenant is then accused not only of threatening the landlord but also of ?trying to overturn the government.? As a result, he lands in jail. The tone of the poem is bitter and exasperated; Hughes seems to recognize the futility of the black man?s predicament while simultaneously trying to change the status quo."
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Carson McCullers' "The Ballad of the Sad Caf, 2001.
Discusses subject matter & narrative techniques. Outline.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, £ 18.95
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" Carson McCullers' story "The Ballad of the Sad Caf?" is written in a non-sensationalistic style, and its narrative voice is omniscient, objective, and descriptive. The subject matter has sensationalistic elements, including questions of sex and violence, but these are muted through most of the story. What the author does is create a strong sense of doom as well as suspense through a number of narrative techniques that on the one hand withhold information for a time to keep the reader interested while at the same time hinting at what is to come so the reader tries always to see the forces at work, to figure out how they will converge, and to recognize revelations as they are made.
The first element that contributes to this sense of suspense is the fact that the story is structured as something..."
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The Politics of William Wordsworth, 2004.
This paper discusses the politics evident in William Wordsworth's "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads".
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, £ 13.95
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In this article the writer presents an analysis of the politics evident in William Wordsworth's "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads", that shaped his ideas on poetry. The writer discusses Wordsworth's democratic sensibility. Further, the writer examine's the poet's use of laws of nature and human nature as subjects of his poetry.
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"In William Wordsworth's "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" we see a definite democratic flavor to Wordsworth's ideas of what constitutes good poetry. Democracy is based on the notion that in the state of nature human beings have certain inalienable rights. When states are constructed the goal of the state is to secure these rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness by the people who put them in power to do so. The contention that in nature all human beings have certain inalienable rights ... "
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William Wordsworth and Alexander Pope, 2002.
Compares "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" (Wordsworth) to "Essay on Criticism" (Pope).
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 15.95
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Compare William Wordsworth's "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" and Alexander Pope's "Essay on Criticism". Discussion about their views on critics is similar with the viewpoint that nature is a vital part of poetry.
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The Role of the Poet in History, 2000.
Compares two views on the role of the poet in history, proper subjects of poetry, poet's attitude, style, tradition. Poems examined "Preface To Lyrical Ballads" by William Wordsworth and "Tradition and The Individual Talent" by T.S. Eliot )
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, £ 28.95
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"The purpose of this research is to compare and contrast from a Marxist standpoint the concepts of the poet articulated in Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads and Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent." The plan of the research will be to set forth in general terms the presentation of central argument in each essay and then to discuss in detail their views of the poet's relationship to poetic materials and the completed poem, how their concepts of the poet are related to their political commitments and their position in history, and how the dramatic difference in aesthetic perspective can be accounted for.
Two strands of thought inform Wordsworth's view of poet's relationship to the materials of poetry. First, there is the matter of departure from previous wisdom regarding the comportment and presentation of poetry as deriving from something ..."
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Tone and Theme in Hughes' Poems, 2001.
Explains how Hughes' "Ballad of the Landlord and Madam" and the "Rent Man" use similar voice, tone, and theme, to illuminate the African-American condition of the 1940's.
1,405 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, £ 27.95
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This is an essay on two poems of the prolific African-American writer, Langston Hughes: "Ballad of the Landlord and Madam" and "The Rent Man". It focuses on the fictional elements of voice, point of view, tone, and theme. The meaning is illustrated through examining the words of both poems.
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"Langston Hughes uses a strikingly similar voice in ?Ballad of the Landlord? and ?Madam and the Rent Man.? The point of view of both poems is first person, which greatly increases the believability of both poems? tone. The attitude is one of anger and despair, and it?s this attitude that conveys the meaning Hughes is trying to make. His meaning has to do with race and class issues. Hughes is illustrating the frustration of oppressed African Americans and the racial prejudice and social injustice they face.'
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