SCOTTISH BALLAD: COMPARATIVE ASPECT (ON THE MATERIAL OF FOLKLORE BALLAD "CLYDE WATER" AND H. AINSLIE’S BALLAD "WILLY AN’ ELLEN")

Abstract

The article examines the ballad as a genre prevalent in the works of Scottish poet-emigrants to the United States in the nineteenth century. The novelty of the study is connected to the comparative aspect of the study and the material of the study. The folklore ballad "Clyde Water" and the ballad of Scottish poet-emigrant H. Ainslie, "Willy an’ Ellen" are compared, and the integral and differential features of the Scottish ballad are determined at the motif, plot-character, and chronotopic levels. Common to both ballads is unequal love, innocent lovers, their deaths, the motif of separation, and the water that implements this separation, the motif of "love to the grave". In H. Ainslie’s ballad, the motif of separation has a more hysterical tone, which is quite expected for an emigrant poet. The occurrence of a large number of similarities proves the vitality and relevance of the folklore tradition even in conditions of emigration.

Keywords

• шотландия
• эмиграция
• xix в.
• поэзия
• фольклор
• баллада
• scotland
• emigration
• xixth c.
• poetry
• folklore
• ballad