Uzbekistan state world languages university department: english language and literature course paper

To sum up I tried to open the meaning of Hoods' adventure above are given some information about his heroic events.

The great strength of the Robin Hood legend is its ability to change with the times. I'm certainly not alone in this opinion. Virtually every Robin Hood scholar I've read has talked about the character's flexibility. Robin Hood finds a way to make himself relevant to every generation. He is, at the same time, a completely new character and one steeped in tradition.


Some people think there's one true version of the legend. I've read movie reviews that complained about how Robin's history in Prince of Thieves was different than the history in the storybook that they read as a kid. Well, the history in that book would have been different than older Robin Hood stories. And yet, I don't think modern versions are any less legitimate than medieval ones. (Although, as you can see, there are some modern versions I'm not personally fond of.)


If Robin Hood stayed exactly like he was in the beginning, there's an excellent chance we'd never have heard of the character. Robin survived Renaissance drama by being an earl. He made it big in the 19th century as a Saxon freedom fighter. He tapped into new age mysticism with Robin of Sherwood.
Coleridge
One famous ballad is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was written in 1797 and is the story of a sailor who has returned from a long voyage. Let's look at a couple of the poem's stanzas, or groups of lines, and discuss why this poem is a ballad.


The Rime of the Ancient Mariner begins with the sailor telling his story to a stranger, called the Wedding-Guest, who is on his way to a wedding. The sailor says:


The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.


The Sun came up upon the left,
Out of the sea came he!
And he shone bright, and on the right
Went down into the sea.


In the first stanza, the sailor talks about how the ship set off and began its journey. In the second stanza, it continues the journey as the sun sets and rises.


References


 W. Apel, Harvard Dictionary of Music (Harvard, 1944; 2nd edn., 1972), p. 70.

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    A. Jacobs, A Short History of Western Music (1972, Penguin, 1976), p. 21.
   
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    W. Apel, Harvard Dictionary of Music (1944, Harvard, 1972), pp. 70-72.
   
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