Tag Archives: Ballads

Analysis of William Wordsworth’s “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”

In Wordsworth’s “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads,” something that interested me was that he said that in his poetry he wanted to represent “incidents and situations from common life.” He said he wanted to use a “selection of language really used by men.” He does this throughout his poetry and it was interesting to me […]

Power Ballads of the ’80s

Bangle bracelets, baggy sweatshirts, men’s shirts and mini skirts, and a decade of teased big hair on both men and women: the ’80s. The ’80s were a decade of color and style, though not necessarily of class. From pushed-up dress jacket sleeves and wild dangling earring to colored pumps and tight, painted-on jeans the only […]

Top Ten Songs by Mark Wills

Mark Wills rose to the top of the country music charts with songs like “Don’t Laugh At Me,” “Wish You Were Here,” and “Jacob’s Ladder.” He’s a voice that carries a ballad and can tackle the saddest topics and yet come out the other side with out leaving the listener forever depressed. In 1999, Mark […]