Ballad

versions of the popular folk ballad “The Cruel Brother,” resulting in an extensive amount of possibilities for comparisons and contrasts between each of the different variations of the ballad. Since the origins of ballads are unknown, it makes the interpretation process of them quite complex, and requires audiences to analyze the content of ballads with extremely limited contextual clues. Considering, again, the fact that there are eleven versions of this single ballad, it can be concluded that…

Can’t Help Falling in Love The cover of “Can’t Help Falling in Love” by Pentatonix is full of rich harmonies and the words and melody of the song are incredible. Elvis Presley sang the original pop ballad. Elvis wrote the song for his grandmother’s birthday and he gave her a music box that played this song when it was opened. In his grandmother’s honor, as the song played in the music box Elvis serenaded her. The song was released to the public on October 1, 1961 and was on the soundtrack to…

Elizabeth Bowen, as well as the ballad Demon Lover appear to revolve around the same concept. The short story is about a woman that was once in love and engaged to a soldier, who fought in World War II. When she returned to her former home she was blindsided by a letter she found on her table.No one had known that she would be visiting her home. The letter forced her to recall a promise that she had made to her former lover. Along the lines of the Demon Lover, the ballad is about another woman…

picked is the Ballad which is a narrative song that came from New England having originally been brought to the Americas by immigrants from the British Isles. Someone who sings a ballad is basically a storyteller. The ballad is written as a poem but is intended to be sung. There are two important characteristics of ballads. The first is incremental repletion which is the repetition of one or more lines with small but significant variations that advance the action. The other is the ballad stanza…

“Frankie and Johnny” is a commonly known murder ballad written by numerous musicians that is about a woman named Frankie who kills her lover whose name is Johnny. [It] is a traditional American murder ballad, but you might not know it was based on a true story (Cellania, “The Story Behind”). Many well-known singers have covered this famous murder ballad such as Louis Armstrong, Lead Belly, and Johnny Cash. Their versions of the ballad are very popular but follow very loosely for entertainment…

Before the invention of recorded sound, ballads were a form of storytelling that was easy to remember. It was made for an audience to remember, consequently they often rhymed and sang with the aid of a tune, audiences would often join along in song or convey their opinion about the message or event in the piece. A ballad is a story, fictitious or real, usually involving an event either political, jovial or a feat of strength, virtue or heroism. When the printing press became available in the…

The poem, “The Ballad of Birmingham” and the article, “When School Was Scary” Both share the same theme which is overcoming obstacles. Although they both share the same theme, they show it differently. “The Ballad of Birmingham” Is about a poor mother’s child that died in the bomb of Birmingham, and “When School Wa Scary” Is about an African American girl named Elizabeth going into a white school during segregation. In the article “When School Was Scary” the author shows the reader that…

communicates the considerations, or feeling to the artist. Henceforth the tone of the ballad can straightforwardly observe that there is a perplexity and wavering keeping in mind the end goal to which street to pick. It is makes the peruser nerve whether the speaker pick the correct street for himself.…

indirectly counters McLane’s interpretation arguing by the time Coleridge adds the prose gloss to the 1817 version of “Rime”, “as a means to distinguish four layers of development: the original mariner’s tale, the ballad narrative of the story, the editorial gloss added when the ballad was first printed, and his own point of view on his invented materials.” (Gaull 59-60) further complicating the intended significance of each part as they fit into the larger poem. Coleridge illuminates the…

South Wales. He was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. Most of his ballads focused on the Australian way of life in the outback. He has produced many well-known ballads such as “The Man from Snowy River “and “Clancy of the Overflow” also his infamous ballad “Waltzing Matilda”. “Waltzing Matilda” was originally created in 1895 and the title is Australian slang for ‘going walkabout with your swag’. The ballad narrates the story of a lonely, wondering worker or swagman preparing a…