Baby It's Cold Outside The medieval period was a time for many story tellings. Ballads arose, and were a quick and fun way to tell a short story. A ballad has several many characteristics, some of them being it has to be simple and direct and have no background. They are still many ballads being written today. Although they might be in disguise, as we often don't recognize them; many ballads are being written today in song form, from country to pop to even rap. “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” a famous Christmas song could be considered a ballad, as it has many comparisons with the characteristics of a medieval ballad. This modern day ballad tells us a story which develops through dialogue. The dialogue of the song is between two people. The girl wants to leave and go home, but it is finding it hard; and the boy tries to think of more and more excuses for her stay as the song moves forward; one being “baby it’s cold outside.” They also is incremental repetition in the song, much like a medieval ballad. At the end of the first and last two lines, “Baby it’s Cold Outside” is repeated. There is no intro or background; we only know it’s cold outside and they are inside. We don’t know the location, how they got …show more content…
This ballad is very musical, as it is very sing-songy, since it is a song. Everything just flows together making a nice beat or rhythm. It also comes from everyday life. The song describes two people
Stanza two shows us how the baby is well looked after, yet is lacking the affection that small children need. The child experiences a ‘vague passing spasm of loss.’ The mother blocks out her child’s cries. There is a lack of contact and warmth between the pair.
the ballad becomes more of a tall tale or a story to be laughed at. And
A lovable, heartwarming story of love is one of “ Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”. A story of seven men who have no guidance find themselves in love. The two main characters in the play are Adam and Millie. By being husband and wife they help the story out with their own love and romance. The seven brothers fall in love with seven beautiful woman and through out the play we see al the ways they try to get their gals. The singing in this play helps us figure out the songs: “Bless Your Beautiful Hide”, “Goin Courtin”, and “Sobbin Woman”. The style of music they use to get this point across is old fashion, traditional music.
This song brings back happy memories of me and my sister. Sense i didnt see her much growing up, whenever we saw each other we would dance parties and my mom would paint our nails. This was our favorite song and we would play it over and over until everyone would get annoyed. It was a lot of fun and we still play this song sometimes when we see eachother now, its like a little memory of our childhood. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOHAogvC6c4
It also explains that the child has perhaps grown too big for his baseball pajamas. “And he says “Are you loving and snuggling? May I join”/ He flops down between us and hugs us and snuggles himself to sleep/ his face gleaming with satisfaction at being this very child” (Kinnell 669l Lines 16-19) these lines describe what happens when the little boy enters their bedroom to interrupt them, the tone still remains playful and cheerful. These lines also show the love the boy has for his parents. The free form pattern continues. “In the half darkness we look at each other/ and smile/ and touch across his little, startlingly muscled body- this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his/ making/ sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake/ this blessing loves gives again into our arms” (Kinnell 669 Lines 20-25) these lines shows the reader how happy the parents are once they look at their son and sees what their love has created, and what a blessing he is to them. There were not much visual
“A Football Game” would most likely be considered a ballad because each stanza is 4 lines plus lines two and four rhyme with one another
Another reader may interpret the second stanza in a completely different light. They might believe that it’s a scene where the father and son are waltzing roughly with each other because they’re having so much fun with each other. But their waltzing causes the pans to fall off the kitchen shelf, which makes their mother sad because her pans fell to the ground and she has to probably clean it up. This is further evidence that the interpretation of the warm memory between father and son is valid.
The song “When It’s Sleepy Time Down South”, may possibly portray Holiday’s sadness and experience during the Great Depression. The line “Homesick, tired, all alone in a big city” can be ...
Also, she made a mistake at a party, leading to her giving birth to a baby boy, which gives a feeling of love. Lastly, when she found God, or before she found Him, there is a feeling of pleading out/asking for help. The song is about a girl who has a troubling past and people make it worse for her she falls into a bad state, causing her to make a mistake, which is becoming pregnant. She pleads for God to help and when she’s about to die she knows that God did help her through her
Writing the poem in ballad form gave a sense of mood to each paragraph. The poem starts out with an eager little girl wanting to march for freedom. The mother explains how treacherous the march could become showing her fear for her daughters life. The mood swings back and forth until finally the mother's fear overcomes the child's desire and the child is sent to church where it will be safe. The tempo seems to pick up in the last couple of paragraphs to emphasize the mothers distraught on hearing the explosion and finding her child's shoe.
Additionally, Germany is another country where hunting ballads are very popular yet there are many other similar poems to this one. Further meaning that this ballad did not originate from Spain itself, but it developed across the European lands. Moreover, the idea of people alternating, editing and improving this poem is what makes a successful old ballad. To show this clear link and how the ballads have been developed across Europe there will be a reference to a German poem. However, they are not identical as that would have been impossible due to the fact that ballads lived on through an oral medium which constantly changed them. Just like any mature ballads both of them have an anonymous author and no title. They incline
Another ironic statement that was found in the first line in the first stanza. “ Seeing the snowman standing all alone.” It Presents irony because snowmen do not stand,
Music exists to decorate time so as one listens to it, they can enjoy the way it fills them with a sense of purpose and helps pass the time. If one is lucky enough, the song may also come across as poetic in its wording or in how the songwriter crafts the perfect metaphors to present ideas. This is not very different from what written poetry accomplishes. In fact, many songs when stripped of their music to just their bare bones of lyrics will read as poetry. To illustrate that idea, I picked the somewhat grim song “Prisoners” by Regina Spektor to show that when a song is taken apart, it shows the pieces of being a poem. It accomplishes that feat by how it delivers its message through both emotions and poetic devices.
From the first stanza of this song, you get put into a scene. You know almost immediately that it is about someone, and it is the middle of December, but without stating the obvious, it paints a more illustrated picture for you. The first line states, “A winters day, in a deep and dark December” and I could almost immediately feel a cool breeze around me. When I normally think of a winter’s day, I think of people playing in the snow, and having a good time. This may be because I grew up in Southern California where there has been a lack of snow, but in my head, that is what I imagine. Having them state, in a deep and dark December, turns my attitudes to the more pessimistic way of looking at things. The image of children playing in the snow in my head has now turned to cold and dark emptiness. Reinstating my idea of emptiness, the next line follows with the simply statement, “I am alone”. Personally, I hate being alone. So to have the opening words place us in a deep and dark setting, and then state that you are alone, automatically puts me in a negative mindset.
The first stanza begins to set the mood. The first line uses the adjective idle to describe his tears. The