geordie and lord randal

Lord randal & geordie

the ballads

and the differences

The plot

Lord Randal

""Lord Randal" is a Scottish ballad and it's anonymous and cannot be dated precisely. Like most ballads, Lord Randal was set to music, it was meant to be sung and it's very important to underdstand the poem. This ballad talks about a tragic event,the central theme is the betrayal of Lord Randal by his false true love because he has been poisoned. The narrative explores the consequences of deceit and the impact of trust being shattered. Lord Randal left to his family material things (dairy cows,gold, silver, his house and his lands) and he left to his true love the flames of the hell. There are some supernatural elements like the forests where lived evil creatures that were and the ideal of chivalry with honour,courage and loyalty.

Geordie

"Geordie" is the one of the most popular English ballads. It's anonymous and it can be dated to the late Middle Ages, it was set to music too.There are multiple versions of Geordie, wich dates back to the 16th Century. There are many British songwriters who have recorded their own personal interpretation. The plot is the same for every version: a young girl is lamenting the fate of her lover because the young man has stolen the king's deer and he had to be sentenced with a golden rope, so his girl goes to court to plead for his life and she is ready to die for his life but he has already been sentenced. There is some elements of chevalry by the girl to save the life of her lover and courtly love of Middle ages, there are magic elements too, because the boy had to be killed with a golden rope.

Differences between Geordie and Lord Randal

Lord Randal

The structure

Geordie

Geordie is a compact dramatic story of love and death and presents a fairly complex narrative:It's composed by 8 stanzas of four lines, made up of narrations and dialogues.The storyteller is inside the story, in fact he opens the ballad with the indications of time and place and the presentations of the two mains characters. The ballad has been interpred in a realistic way as a true story. Geordie is set to music too

Lord Randal was written in form of questions and answers between a mother and her son, Lord Randal. The language of the ballad is simple, composed by 10 stanzas of four lines (quatrains), in total 40 lines, and a lot of alliterations. These quatrains have the same words used at the ends of every line.The third line of each of the first six stanzas contains a key word, respectively: greenwood, true-love, eels fried, hawks and hounds. The rhyme scheme is regular and in all quatrains is ABAC and it was very important to give more musicality to the composition. Here there isn't an external narrator because is a dialogue. Lord andal, as a ballad, is set to music.

Lord Randal

Themes of the ballads in comparing

Love,chivalry, magic

Geordie

- Love, in "Geordie", is totally a courtly love but this time by a girl to defend his love Geordie that is sentenced to die. She wanted to combat for his life but he dies and she have to accept it.So there is the chivalry too to risk the life for defend the true love, there is the courage and loyalty of the girl too. -In "Geordie" there is more magic than in "Lord Randal", because he must hang with a golden rope, un unreal thing, like a privilege too.

- In Lord Randal there is the theme of love when Lord Randal find his true-love but it betrays him because he has been poisoned so it's courtly love too. -We can see the chivalry in "Lord Randal" too because when he was dying, he thoght of his family to give them his heritage, so he divided the cows, golden and silver and his house and lands to his brother, mother and sister, he had the nobilty and human emotion for his family. - Here there isn't present a lot of magic but we can see it when Lord Randal went to the forest, that is a Celtic legend of mithology because there lived evil creatures like fairies, trolls and goblins. Another element are the flames of the hell that he gives to his true love when he was dying

LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Unit 01

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