In english we are writing ballads which is a type of poem ... and i have no clue what to do mine on ... any ideas ... e.g ... 9/11 , disasters, ect. x.x.x
2007-03-19 09:50:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
How about something humorous like The Ballad of the Kid Who Hated Poetry?
Or The Ballad of the Overworked Underpaid Stay at Home Mom
Oddly enough you might get some ideas from old TV show theme songs. Remember the Beverly Hillbillies? Ballad of Jed Clampett or the theme song for The Fresh Prince? C.
2007-03-19 09:55:15 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well, ballads are the sort of poems that always describe sorrow, often a love sorrow. so, the best thing you can do is try and look from a perspective of an individual... let's say, a girl who survived Tsunami but lost all her family or something like that... a firefighter from NY... maybe just a man who saved someone.. anything with an ellegic tone. or you could try to just make up your own story (in ballad's, it's usually about lost love), make it modern, though, it could be a sad story about a person who fell in love with someone over the internet, they live miles apart, will probably never meet... take it from there. or, maybe, a musician whose girlfriend leaves him for a top-rank manager and his conventioanl life... tehre are plenty of ideas... just look at it form a person's perspective, and you'll be able to write a fine ballad
2007-03-19 11:23:09 · answer #2 · answered by mimma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do one about something you have experienced. Try and remember how you felt and exaggerate it a little but dont be over the top with the emotions. Or try to imagine how you could have felt, like being in love. Listen to a few love songs to get you in the right mood. First just jot down ideas or words that come to mind, and then try to put them into sentences.
2007-03-19 09:54:46 · answer #3 · answered by jeanimus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Shall I compare thee to an autum's mourn
As Shakespeare had to use a summers day,
Filling me with utmost hatred and scorn,
At that guy who's writing won't go away.
This is English style..... first line in iambic pentomic........ sorry if u are doing Italian style.....
**** i have done sonnets, not ballads, sorry!
2007-03-19 11:05:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've written poems on a wide variety of subjects and the easiest subject for me is love and its ups and downs. I'll give one mine to give you the idea, either that or you can use it yourself, I really don't mind if it helps you either way.
THE FREEDOM OF LOVE
The freedom of love is a freedom of choice.
To love who you want and hear your inner voice.
The freedom of love is to know ones own mind.
To rectify mistakes even when that loves blind.
The freedom of love is to hold who you like.
And tell all the wasters to get on their bike.
The freedom of love is to experience some pain.
'Cause when its gone wrong its knowledge you'll gain.
The freedom of love is to realise a loss.
if you handle this you will always be boss.
I really don't know if this will help but it gives you the idea. Hope you pass!!!
2007-03-19 11:55:23 · answer #5 · answered by Nigel T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A ballad should be about nice things such as love. If you have ever been in love, this should be easy.
2007-03-19 10:05:14 · answer #6 · answered by b97st 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can be upbeat and positive and wax lyrical about our lovely countryside; Or you can unleash some pathos and write about a lost love.
2007-03-19 09:54:36 · answer #7 · answered by carboncruncher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your own take on the seven stages of man by Shakespeare?
2007-03-19 09:58:42 · answer #8 · answered by Icarus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There once was a man from Nantucket...?
sorry, not my forte~
2007-03-19 09:54:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋