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Thinking about "The Unquiet Grave"

Thinking about the ballad “The Unquiet Grave”

Given its small amount of characterization, this ballad seems to take a psychological approach and
to ask how about the different responses in female and male mourners. There are other ballads like "Clerk Saunders" in which the male ghost returns and “he” wants a kiss. Since this would be fatal, the lovers come up
with a trick that allows the living woman to transfer a kiss to him without actually touching him. It would ...

Posted by: Asare Mabel

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