Group 2's members include...Jayden Greene, Paul Kirby, Abdul Alanzi, Javier Arana
In Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Gaelic Poetry and Song by V.Z. Blankenhorn, the author describes how poems and songs affect Gaelic culture in Ireland and Scotland. This was all in the time of the Gaelic Revival which was the the revival of Irish language, literature and history because of the influence of nationalism in the early 19th century. Chapter one of Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Gaelic Poetry and Song shows the structure and speech on Scottish Gaelic poetry during the Gaelic Revival, and this shows its importance at the time.
Rhythm in poems is very important in Irish and Gaelic poetry and the two types of rhythms are used heavily in important poems during the Gaelic Revival Period. There is a quote the writer says which is “With either of these, we get a sense of ‘One-two-three, One-two-three’ – waltz-time, if you like. Duple rhythm is a little different. Here you have ‘DEE-dle-ee-dle, DEE-dle-ee-dle’ – four beats grouped together, rather than three (Blankenhorn 9). This quote shows importance in the topic of rhythm because there wasn’t a lot of ways to write back then, and it shows because there were only two types of writing. However, this type of set up in poetry help with the readers because it gave them an understanding of how to break down the poem to understand it better than one would before. Also, it just explained the rhythm as simple as that, and that’s why one of the titles in chapters is rhythm because the rhythm in writing in Scotland was similar and the writer wanted to show the writing at the time and the effect of rhythm in Irish writing and how it relates to some Scottish writing in a way.
The writer’s point of view and ideas on this type of thing helps with understanding and getting a point across. For example, the writer says “Scottish Gaelic verse is structurally similar to Irish accentual verse in many ways, and a clear genealogical relationship between them can be traced... In other aspects, however, and especially in terms of its larger organization, its musical structure, and its performance context, Scottish Gaelic verse poses a greater challenge than Irish” (Blankenhorn 3). This helps with the comparison of Scottish and Irish literature and how they have some similarities and differences in a way. It gives us the ideas of how they are so similar and why is that which is something that is needed because it’s great background info in a sense to know why the text became so important.
Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: essays on Scottish Gaelic poetry and song
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The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921
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The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921
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