Ballads

Cousin Lymon has proven himself to be a sociable person who enjoys entertaining the town's people with his tales. He is an attention seeker who lives the life to the fullest and enjoys being the center of activity at the cafe. He was the one who persuade Miss Amelia into transforming her store into a cafe just for his own pleasure of entertaining people. Miss Amelia allows the transformation to occur out of love for Lymon. Soon, the store transform into the cafe and it becomes a great sort of…

Diving into William Wordsworth’s Life Love for nature, strong emotions about life, and a wild imagination are all traits of the Romantic era. The people in the Romantic era enjoyed writing poetry about the things listed. The greatest poet of the Romanticism era is not Emily Dickinson or Walter Scott, even though they are great too, but it is William Wordsworth. Wordsworth is known as the Father of the Romanticism period. He has many famous literary works such as The Prelude, “I Wander Lonely…

How Thomas Gray’s life affected his work Thomas Gray was one of the most influential poets during the 18th century and produced many widely known poems and works of literature throughout his life. Many events within his life contributed to his style and topics while writing his poetry. The works of Thomas Gray were influenced by the death of his close friend, Richard West, his time spent on The Grand Tour with Walpole, and the time he spent at Eton College as a professor and a scholar. Thomas…

Can you think of famous people who kept trying and never gave up? Song Minho, a kpop rapper, has failed being a singer for two times but the third time, didn’t fail. I am going to introduce you to Song Minho starting off with his childhood, then his journey of becoming a singer, and last the current Minho. First of all, Song Minho was born on March 30, 1993 in South Korea, Yongin. He has a younger sister who debuted as a singer before Minho. Minho loved drawing and singing. But he was a bit…

Jr. and Frank Sinatra on his show. People were racist and didn’t want to advertise during his show so he cancelled after 64 episodes. He later started showing up in different movies like, Cat Ballou, starring Jane Fonda, singing the title song “The Ballad of Cat Ballou.” He also appeared in The Nat King Cole Story and produced a musical play in the 1960s called I’m With…

Taylor Coleridge is a perfect description of the re-salvage of Greek and Roman stories that the author uses in his writings. In this short story, author Coleridge, beautifully portrays an English ballad in the Romantic Period and offers a delightful, yet eerie, twist on older stories to help form this ballad. His use of the supernatural, pride, death, and life-in-death helps us shape our view of spirituality in this story combined with biblical elements and lessons in this poem. As seen in the…

Dying, destruction and devastation are three words to describe death. Edna St. Vincent Millay and William Blake described death similarity. They each talk about their feelings towards dying. In “Conscientious Objector,” Edna St. Vincent Millay and “The Fly,” William Blake, the authors portray the idea of death from different perspectives. “Edna St. Vincent Millay was the oldest of three girls.” (Edna 1) She had a difficult childhood because her mother divorced her father because of his…

He composed 154 ballads and works and 38 plays, yet not every one of the words that are authorize to the versifier of Avon were his own. It was very normal in those days for authors to delegate some of their keeping in touch with others and Shakespeare was no exemption.…

In Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War, Kenneth A. Bernard writes “In camp and hospital they sang- sentimental songs and ballads, comic songs and patriotic numbers- the songs were better than rations and medicine. (Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War)” This shows how music gives people the motivation not only to endure, but to unite with neighbors in defiance of the enemy…

went to join the army. Little Richard also retired to become a preacher. Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis were also prosecuted in 1959. There was the breaking of the payola scandal and feminisation of rock as the charts were dominated by more love ballads aimed at the female audience. The feminisation of rock also contributed to bringing about girl groups such as The Shirelles and The Crystals. 1959 was a hard year for Rock N’ Roll and is considered the decline of Rock N’ Roll, some probably…