ENG308Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lyrical Ballads, Quatrain
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It has a self-editing function the most. Literary ballad: tells a narrative, plot driven, story; publicly accessible. Literary ballad consists of a quatrain (4 line stanza), usually with short lines, usually. Controversy: the poem was celebrating or taking up individuals from a rustic society, not necessarily educated, members of the elite, or even people who were literate. They were written in a hybrid of lyrical ballads. Lyric ballad = serious example of hybridity important parts are usually remembered only the second and fourth line rhyme in the quatrain. Lyric and ballad is pout together to celebrate rustic life. Presumed upon the public taste people were angry because they were accustomed to neo- classical poetry that was written according to a certain kind of decorum. Joining together of form associate with propriety (lyric) and accessibility (ballad) was putting to opposite ideas of culture together. Wordsworth wanted to educate the public in its own reading tastes and what he was doing.
