Sunday, 2 March 2014

Ballads

An option for your final project is a ballad.  There are too many definitions of 'ballad' to talk about them all, but in any case most are long narrative poems (tell a story) with a rhyme and rhythm pattern; they often have a refrain.  This is not homework, unless it is part of your final project.

We have already seen a few examples:
- Jabberwocky
- The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Tennyson
- The Destruction of Sennacherib, by Lord Byron

A few more examples are:
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Coleridge
- The Raven, by Poe


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