English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lyrical Ballads, Quatrain
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An artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in europe. A reaction to industrial revolution and the legacy of the enlightenment (with its focus on scientific rationalization of nature: focus on subjective feeling (over rational thought, the internal revolutions of the mind in relation to external stimuli. The romantics developed the idea of absolute originality and artistic inspiration. Traditionally, a song that, transmitted orally to tell a story: narrative species of the folk song, typically a condensed narrative beginning with the climatic episode, told without self-reference or the expression of personal attitudes or feelings. Ballad stanza: most common form, a quatrain (four lines) in alternate four and three stress iambic (unstressed syllable then stressed syllable pattern) lines, alternating rhyming scheme (abab or abcb) The romantic ballad differs from the traditional ballad in adding personal feelings and self-reference.
