SBosich - activities on p. 98-99
Pag 98 es 1
- Hunting
- Forest
- Mother
- Meet
- True-love
- Eels
- Poisoned
- Heart
- Gold and silver
- Hell and fire
Pag 98 es 2
- The mother’s question: Where have you been? What you meet there?; What did she give you?; What did she give you?; What becam of them?; What do you leave to your mother?; What do you leave to your sister? What do you leave to your brother? What do you live to your true Love?
Lord Randal answers: I have been at the greenwood; I met wi my true-love; Eels fried in a pan; My hawks and my hounds; They stretched their legs and died; I am poisoned; Four and twenty milk kyes; My gold and my silver; My houses and my lands; I leave her hell and fire
The story is told in general terms.
- The expression “lie down” hints at Lord Randal’s death.
- The climax of the story is the expression “O yes, I’m poisoned”, In the sixth stanza. This expression is a turn point because it is the moment in which the topic of the ballad changes from the mother’s interest in finding out what his song had done to the motehr’s interest in finding out what would happen after the death of his son.
- Lord Randal’s meeting in the woods: stanzas 1-6
Lord Randal’s oral testament: 6-11
Pag 98 es 3
- Lord, four and twenty milk kyes, my gold and silver, My houses and my lands.
- It’s important because Lord Rendel, an exponent of an high social class, is dying and it is necessary to know how to divide his possessions and riches.
Pag 98 es 4
The dialogue between the mother and the son is factual.
During the dialogue the son seems bored and annoyed because he is interested only in going to lie down, instead the mother is worried for he son, in her opinion he looks strange and wants to know what happened to him.
Pag 99 es 5
This belief of the middle ages characterise the Lord Randal’s true-love as a mythological and mysterious monster, indeed the reader would hypotheses she would be a witch, mainly because Lord Randal was poisoned.
Pag 99 es 6
The symbol of her false love is the expression “ for I’m sick at the heart”.
Pag 99 es 7
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Lord Randal
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Lord Randal was poisoned by his true-love
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The betrayal of the true-love
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At the beginning of the ballad Lord Randal returns from hunting without saying her mother he was poisoned and in the end he die
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Lord Randal doesn’t give details of what happened to him in the greenwood
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In all stanzas of the ballad there’re a question of the mother and an answer of the son
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all stanzas have only 4 lines and in each of them there’re the rhymes son-handsome, soon-doon
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In some stanzas of the ballad there’s the repetition of the expressions “lord Randal my son, lord Randal my handsome young man?”, “mak my bad soon for I’m wearied wi hunting, and fain wad lie doon” and “mak my bed soon for I’m wearied wi hunting, and fain wad lie down”.
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“lord Randal my son, lord Randal my handsome young man?” and “mak my bad soon, and fain wad lie doon”
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An example of a conventional symbol are the hell and the fire.
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