LORD RANDAL ANALYSIS

This is the analysis of the last 5 stanzas of the ballad "LORD RANDAL". In the last quatrains is described the end of the story. The man after he had told his mother what had happened understood he had been poisoned.

The sixth stanza delines a changing because it explains exactly what is happening at the knight. He compares the hurt of the poison at the hurt of love. In the Middle Ages love was mainly used for economical reasons and so love was not considerated like now. Women who didn't get married were considered tempters. The woman therefore is a symbolic thing to tell the reader that the poisoning is like falling in love.

In the last quotrains the man tells his mother what he would live to her, his sister and his brother. At his mother he will leave what she needs, at his sister he will leave his gold, silver and his jewels and at his brother he will leave his possessions. The ballad like the others of the Middle Ages, describes the way of thinking of the people living that ages

THE MIDDLE AGES

In the Middle Ages people was dominated by magic and religion, people was convinced that life was conditioned by those things.

Middle Ages were also important because several types of literary forms were born, no matter if they were aristocrathic or not. The most famous form of poetry is ballad, wich was oral, because people was quite illiterate. The topics of the poems were tragic love, supernatural adventures or battles.

In the ballads there are some figures that help remembering, wich are repetition, incremental repetition, reframe, alliterative rhymes, assonance, consonance and rhythm.