Tuesday 4 January 2011

Please paraphrase the ballad/poem "Edward, Edward."

This
poem, written down by an anonymous poet and almost certainly a traditional folk song, describes
a conversation between a boy and his mother.

In the first stanza, the mother
asks her son, Edward, why his sword is dripping with blood and why he is sad. The boy says it is
because he has killed his good hawk and he does not have another one.

In the
second stanza, the mother says the blood of the hawk was never as red as thissuggesting, really,
that there is too much blood to have come only from a hawk. The boy agrees and says that he has
also killed his "red roan steed," his horse.

In the next stanza,
the mother says that this cannot be the whole reason her son is sad, because the horse was old
and they have others. The boy admits that he has actually also killed his father.


In the next stanza, the mother asks Edward what penance he will face for having killed
his father, to which Edward replies that he will get into a boat and sail off to see.


The mother then asks what Edward plans to...

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