Ballad Contemporary

Question 1

What is the ballad

Answer 1

A poem written so close to a community that is it almost coauthored by it

Question 2

Comes from a different and seeks out a different

Answer 2

Concept of the poet

Different audience

Question 3

The audience of the traditional ballad was ?

The newer ballad is

Answer 3

Conscious of its identity as a community and aware that the balladeer spoke to and of that with ballad of local concern

Putting a subtly individual shape on the ballad impulse

Question 4

Byindividualizing the poets concerns it inevitable ?

Answer 4

Breaks the old communal links with audience

Question 5

Ballad comes out of
In recent times new media continue to
Examples

Answer 5

Deep sources of language and storytelling
Suggest the early origins and customs of the ballad
Country and western rap

Question 6

It’s does not keep but it’s ? She’s real light on the true nature of the ballad

Answer 6

The old quatrain or the old rhyme scheme

Immediacy music and spontaneous methods of composition