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THE ASPECTS OF PERRY-LORD FOR POPULAR BALLADS, CONCERNING THREEANGLO-SAXON BALLADS (SIR PATRICK SPENS, LORD RANDAL, THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL) Fatmire Isaki State University of Tetovo, Macedonia ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is through properly selected examples to prove that Millman Parry and Albert Lord’s aspects of the theory of the popular ballad can be applied in the English ballads too. Perry and Lord explained how the Homeric epic and numerous popular ballads of the Balkans and traditions, could be transmitted through many generations by oral route and why have appeared formulaic principles in the way they are created and presented. Following the same procedure, we will try to show the same principles on an analysis …show more content…

Simplicity is the element to which is always given importance in this type of work, in which people have pointed out the necessity of communication as an essential means by which this works are successfully transmitted from generation to generation, from era to era and have survived through the millenniums. Oral literature should be further investigated in order to discover its stylistic and structural elements that provide its existence and still make it current, i.e “alive” literature. Such is the case, of course with the English and Scottish ballads, but firstly let us see how much are ballads investigated in these …show more content…

The ballad has a typical ballad stanza with four lines - a structure that helps singers as easy as possible to remember it. In ballad describes the tragic event of the thirteenth century. The ballad tells the story of the knight-sailor Sir Patrick Spence who goes in the sea on a mission for the King. Sir Patrick should bring the King’s daughter and he needs to sail with her to Scotland. Sir Patrick has to fulfill this mission in the winter, but he has the feeling that an accident is forthcoming that actually occurs. The narrator tells the story "in medias res" ("in the middle of things"), without any comment on the events. It remains to the readers to discover the reasons of sailing and to decide whether this trip was a wise decision or not. But in the end of the ballad we understand that Sir Patrick and his crew die in this journey. The rhyme of each stanza of this ballad is A B C B. For

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