Textuality » 3A Interacting
MUSIC AND SOCIETY
- Yes, music is important in my life because it comes with me everyday. It completes my emotion when I am sad or happy and it is present in every moments.
- Yes, I have. Medieval Music is based on religious or aristocracy (the importance of the king). It is often accompanied by a kithara or a flute.
LADY DIAMOND
- The ballad is structured of 13 four-line stanza.
- It has not got a regular rhyme scheme, but sometimes they are alternated.
- The story is told through narration, but there are dialogues. Descriptive passages are short and concrete.
- The language is concrete and the style is simple.
- This beginning remind me of a normal fable, where the place and the time are indefinite. This introduction is similar with the first stanza of the ballad because they both introduces a king and his daughter.
- In stanza two, exactly in line 8, is referred to the passage from spring to autumn, when grass overgrow the corn.
- Line 13 is referred to winter because it describes "a winter's night"
- Diamond's hand and the kitchen boy's breast are white because this colour underlines their purity.
- Lady Diamond knows that she has disobeyed her father, so she pleased her father not to end her love with the kitchen boy.
- I think the singer's attitude to the story is with Diamond's side because he narrates the king's action in a negative opinion.
THE HOUSE CARPENTER
- The two character speaking are a man and a woman. The man is a seaman who is fallen in love with the woman. She is the wife of a house carpenter. Their relation ship is temporary.
- The man has given up the possibility to marry the King's daughter and the wealth for her love. He renounced all that to obtain the love of carpenter's wife.
- The man wants the woman left her husband, her son and her house to go away with him.
- Before leaving, she needs to know if the man was rich or not.
- Once she has left, she was sad because she missed her baby.
- Their ship suddenly sinks and they die.
- I can find here different features of the ballad, for example: repetition, rhyme, alliteration, the use of a concrete language and an indefinite place and time.
- The sea man really is tempter devil. He can be the snake who tempted Eva to eat the apple, like the seaman convinced her to o with him.
- Heaven is described as a rise so fair and high, while Hell is descried as dark and low hills.
- Heaven is a forbidden place for the lovers because they didn't respect the religion. They violated the marriage.
- Now I would give The title "The Daemon Lover" because it expresses better the idea of the story.