Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter

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Sound features 6. Work out the poem’s rhyme scheme. 7. Look at the main stresses in stanza 1. a. How many stresses are there in each line ´ ´ ´ ´ A chieftain, to the Highlands bound, ´ ´ ´ Cries, “Boatman, do not tarry! ´ ´ ´ ´ And I’ll give thee a silver pound ´ ´ ´ To row us o’er the ferry!” — b. Which of these statements is true The poem alternates … a. … lines of pentameter and tetrameter. b. … lines of tetrameter and trimeter. c. … lines of trimeter and dimeter. c. Can you identify the same stress pattern in other stanzas of the poem In More Detail Type repetition of phrases anaphor alliteration consonance assonance Standard forms 8. Repetition is an important feature of this poem. a. Find an example of each type of repetition. Examples b. What is the effect of the repetition Tick the statements you agree with. a. It makes the poem more musical. b. It makes the words easier to remember. c. It highlights important words and phrases. d. It makes the poem boring and predictable. 9. Here is a checklist of the main features of the standard form known as the traditional or folk ballad. Which features can you link to the ballad Lord Ullin’s Daughter a. The authors of ballads are anonymous (usually minstrels and troubadours) and their narrators are impersonal. b. They were handed down orally and changed as they passed from person to person and from country to country. They were generally not written down until the 18th century. c. Ballads are meant for performance, with or without musical accompaniment, and so they contain many sound features, especially repetition, which make them musical and memorable. d. A key feature of ballads is their simplicity. The storyline is simple, often tragic, and focuses on action. There are no descriptive passages. The characters are straightforward and are not psychologically complex. The language is lexically and syntactically simple and contains stock phrases or formulae and codes which audiences immediately recognise. e. The traditional ballad stanza is a quatrain and usually alternates lines of tetrameter and trimeter (4-3-4-3 stress pattern). Different rhyme schemes are present but the most common are abab and abcb. f. Predominant themes of ballad stories are tragic ones of love, death, revenge, betrayal, conflict. Section 3 In More Detail Learning about Poetry (ballad) Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin’s Daughter 4
BIOGRAPHY IN BRIEF Read the biography and find out how the text and the author’s life are linked. In More Detail Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844) Thomas Campbell was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1777. He was educated at Glasgow High School and the University of Glasgow where he won prizes for classics and for poetry. During the holidays he worked as a tutor in the western Highlands and his poem Glenara and the ballad of Lord Ullin’s Daughter were both written after a visit to Mull at that time. He became famous for his poem The Pleasures of Hope which dealt with popular issues of the time such as the French Revolution, the partition of Poland and slavery. He travelled in Germany before returning to Scotland and then settling in London. He continued writing and travelling and was then elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University in 1826. His family life suffered a series of sad events — Campbell’s wife died in 1828, one of his two sons died and the other became insane. Campbell’s health suffered, too, and he withdrew from public life. He died in 1844. Scottish School, Portrait of Thomas Campbell, 1815, engraving (Private Collection). Section 3 In More Detail Learning about Poetry (ballad) Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin’s Daughter 5
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