Dance

The ballad is a literary species, which consists of both epic songs, and lyrical, telling about unusual events: legendary or historical. Usually, ballads are saturated with a mood of mystery, horror, puzzle. At the same time, they use a certain constant resource of conventional shots and resources, np. syntactic parallelisms, chorus. It is a syncretic species (i.e. mixed) covering epic and lyrical songs, even with dramatic elements (np. dialogues).

Artistic ballads are most often imitating folk ballads, which at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries was recognized as the basic type of literary folklore and one of the lawsuits of poetic creativity. Yes, folk ballads perceived Goethe (The famous King of Olch), Herder, Grimm brothers. Artistic ballads have become an important species of romantic poetry, The poets of the highest measure wrote them: Burns, Coleridge, Heine, Pushkin, LERMONTOWO. Currently, the ballad conventions are alive primarily in the stage of the stage, attempts to modernize the so -called. courtyard ballads, derived from the circle of urban folklore.