Ballads

“A Gothic hero should be passionate, obsessive and unsettling in equal measure.” In light of this comment, discuss the representation of both heroes and heroines in the Gothic texts you have studied this year. Gothic heroes were first known as Byronic heroes being ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’; they normally had a problematic and secretive past therefore isolating themselves from the world be it physically or mentally. Gothic heroines are stereotypically seen to be young, innocent and a…

in Mexico where there Olympics were supposed to take place and the three hundred students who were “peacefully demonstrating in Mexico City were mown down by a hail of military bullets,” (Norton 125). The songs that came after this event were all ballads that depicted the story of what happened while acting as a source of education on what occured. This relates to some of the songs in Amandla! during the apartheid movement and how they painted a story through song as well. The song about the…

Maude Clare is another ballad by Rossetti that successfully presents a tale of unrequited love from a female perspective. Similarly, to ‘Light Love’, the male speaker is unfaithful to his lover and marries another woman. Maude disrupts Thomas and Nell’s wedding day with a “gift”…

In the musical production Hairspray, there were various differences in acting styles, technical elements, and demands of the actor in comparison to plays in general. With Hairspray being a movie that I had watched on Netflix, it was obviously not live and this also contributes to the differences of going to an actual live production in a theater. These differences help us distinguish between the realities of the products of a musical and the products of a play. Hairspray’s acting styles were…

protect themselves. One of the songs chosen was “Agape” by Zhang Li Yin, a Chinese vocalist who sang this powerful tribute to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake victims. There is also “Severely” by the band FTIsland, a Korean boy group, singing this emotional ballad. Lee Hong Ki, the main singer of the boy band FTIsland, sang and starred in the music video “Severely”. Zhang Li Yin has a few parts in the music video “Agape”, but it only shows her singing the song, not acting in the story part of the…

the rhyme in the choruses “us” is constant. The bridge is another verse where P!nk is asking the government will they be ready for whatever will happen. The musical elements of this song are varying in tempo and pace which creates an emotional club ballad or a dance floor anthem feel. The song is sung with guitars, keyboards, drums and synthesizers which gives the…

music. It is about the adoration of the Virgin Mary. There’s an undescribable feeling attached to this piece. It lifts you up from where you are right now. The fourth musical work that was mentioned was classical composer Manuel Ponce’s Estrellita, a ballad, telling a story about a female’s hidden love to a man. The last musical work that was mentioned was a Bach Gavotte. The article described this piece as a jolly and joyfull lyrical dance. In addition, several composers were mentioned in the…

Benjamin to Napoleon Bonaparte. Historical revisionism—history rewritten—is a theme that is discussed in John Gardner’s Grendel in the form of the Shaper, a minstrel who sings at the court of Hrothgar, king of the Danes. The Shaper frequently sings ballads that seek to enhance the status of Hrothgar and his allies, and portray others as weak or threatening, regardless of actual historical fact.…

written in the past tense, as if the author is recalling the funeral from memory, hence we know that it is not an actual funeral, but a figurative one. The structure of Poem #280 consists of 115 words, 20 lines and 5 stanzas. The author uses the common Ballad Stanza, and the rhythmic meter of ABCB, which consist of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines. The rhyme scheme runs through-out the poem until the last stanza, the last line, “And Finished knowing – then –“ breaks this rhyme, which…

In the poem "curiosity ", by Alastair Reid, the creator utilizes contrary energies, as well as age-oldenemies, as vehicles for his depiction of two sorts of individuals – the individuals who avoid any unnecessary risk and don't raise some static, and the individuals who take risks and cause trouble just to perceive to what extent it takes to sink. Pretty much as the hide flies when cats and dogs get together, so it frequently happens with individuals who experience their lives on two distinct…