pre 20th century poetry
...in regional accents. This helps also to involve the audience by showing that the ballads problems are universal and it could happen to everyone for example addiction or love. This is good as again it helps the balladier to perform and makes the audience relax. However in these poems, the poets use very different diction choices, in different ways, to create their chosen atmospheres. For example in "La Belle Dans Sans Merci " john Keats uses words like 'withereth', 'haggard' and 'lily on the brow' to give the effect of deformaty, death and dying. This works well because it not only puts the poem in a certain age in time but also shows how the person is shrivelling, dying and being tortured. However in The Trampwomans Tradgedy uses a variety of compound and jolly words to give the effect of happiness which is soon followed by sadness. For instance he uses compound words like "livelong" and "sunblaze" and jolly words like "jaunted" to show how things start off happy but begin to go downhill. I also think the choice of diction is a good effect because it allows the poet and the performer to change the mood of the poem quickly and discreetly. In The Trampwomans Tradgedy, Hardy begins by using happy jolly words and phrases like "fosseway fields and turnpike tracks" and "jaunted" to give the effect of how happy the story begins but as it continues on he gradually introduces more and more unsettling words like "haunted" and "the red moon slow declined" to show how the relationships break up and how thing slowly change from good to bad. Another good technique is not using rhyming couplets because it can show how the couples relationship falls apart. The final good technique in The Trampwomans Tradgedy is the second line echoes the first. This is a great effect as it not only allows the audience to join in but it also allows the performer to get the main 'jist' of the poem even if he can not remember it all. It also give the ballad a catchy rythum. When John Keats wrote La Belle dans Sans Merci he used many techniques to catch the audiences attention and help the balladier to perform. For example he puts the chorus at the beginning and the end to show how this could happen over and over again. Also I think by choosing to write about a mythical creature -faery- he can compare it to his drug addiction and help show how things can control your life without you being able to stop it. Also by using references to all four seasons Keats can show how long the torture goes on for while this man waits for his faerys to return. For example he uses phrases like "honey wild" and "fragrant zone" to resemble summer and spring and "sedge has wither'd from the lake" and "squirrels granary is full" to show winter and autumn. By using a chorus in The Trampwomans Tradgedy it creates an impact on the audience it lets them join in and brings the ballad to life. Another way hardy tries to create an impact is by using thirteen (unlucky and odd) stanza, this gives the appeal that something is going to go wrong. Thirteen is also a superstitious number but Hardy also counteracts this the uses of jolly words. These two are good because they create a bright outcome eventhough it has a twist in the en...