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Middle English Lyrics and Ballads - Coggle Diagram
Middle English Lyrics and Ballads
They express an intense personal emotion.
Religious lyrics
There was an extensive cult of the Virgin in the Middle Ages, so for that reason many of the songs are about the Virgin.
Secular lyrics
Some of the best-known are Cuckoo Song, Alysoun middle smal.
Medieval ballads
They treat magic love, the pagan supematural, and historical and semi-historical events.
Some of them:
Tam Lin
It tells how Janet winning back of mortal life her elfin lover.
Barbara Allan
It tells of Sir John Grehme's dying of unrequited love for Barbara
Sir Patrick Spens
It tells of Spens being ordered to sea in winter on a mission for the King.
Robin Hood Cycle of Ballads
The best- known of this genre is Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbome
Ballads- poems that tell stories, often of folk origin.
They were originally written to be sung.
