2010级英国文学5.pptVIP

British Literature British Literature III Popular Ballads 1 Ballad 1 the most important of English folk literature; 2 It is a folk song or orally transmitted poem telling in a direct way and dramatic manner some popular stories usually in local history or legend. 3 The story is told simply, impersonally, and often with vivid dialogues. 4 It is often composed in quatrains with alternating 4-stress and 3-stress lines, and the 2nd the 4th lines rhymed. The English ballads flourished in the 12th to the 15th century. In this period, while the nobility were amusing themselves with romances, the common folks were expressing their interest and ideals in poetry much simpler in form and more genuine in sentiment. The popular ballads reflect the life of the age as the people saw it. 2 The subjects of ballads 1 heroic deeds; 2 love tragedy in high life; 3 domestic tragedy; 4 folklore; 5 humorous incidents. 3 “The Geste of Robin Hood” 1 the origin of the ballads 2 the textual analysis of: Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale Get Up and Bar the Door Cultural Notes The Wedding Vows Version 1 Pastor to Groom -- ___________, do you take ___________ whom you hold by the hand to be your lawfully wedded wife, and do you covenant to be true to her, to love, cherish, and protect her, in sickness and in health, in poverty or in wealth, until death do you part? Groom -- I do. Pastor to Bride -- ___________, do you take ___________ whom you hold by the hand to be your lawfully wedded husband, covenanting to be true to him, to love, cherish, and honor him, in sickness and in health, in poverty or in wealth, until death do you part? Bride -- I do. Version 2 Please join your right hands. Pastor -- ___________, in taking the woman whom you hold by the right hand to be your lawful and wedded wife, I require you to promise to love and cherish her, to honor and sustain her, in sickness and in health, in poverty as in wealth, in bad that may darken your days, in the go