An Exploration on Poetic and Supernatural Element in the Bride of Lammermoor By Walter Scott

Abstract

This research article investigates the poetic and supernatural representation in the literature of Walter Scott. His teaching, and antiquarian skills into his investigation of the possibilities of the survival, of the supernatural elements. The ballads and an unlettered legends tradition that appear to confirm his position as a believer in superstitious and irrational practices. This article will argue that Hogg possesses a shrewd and sophisticated understanding of the authority of the supernatural. This is visible in his hard literary work to evidence and looks into various types of uncanny evidence when compared with those of Scott. Keyword: Poetic languages, Supernatural elements, Bride of Lammermoor, Walter Scott. The Bride of Lammermoor is a tale which no man but a poet could tell, says Adolphus. Scott underway his profession as a poet. He engraved many ballads historical, traditional, and romantic. The Bride of Lammermoor is a ballad very much alike a primitive ballad. The paramount leitmotifs of the ballad are grudges between kings, electrifying escapades, household dissensions, wars, battles, and love. In this novel, there are three things – rivalry, clan dissensions, and love. Further, in an unenlightened ballad, there is no endeavor of moralizing, no stab of making it didactic. In this novel also Scott has no scruples to preach, no missive to give. It is more of a detached narrative. There is something expressive about this novel. The love offered in the medieval ballads is either acquitted or fierce, but it is always unassuming and intense. The two lovers in the novel love each other intensely. The gold coin given by the Master to Lucy is not a present of love; it is a tie between their love, and this association is only shattered when the two die. This overspill may not be inevitably in verse alone. It can be in prose also. This novel has sundry tracks in which is found a mien of spur-of-the-moment overflow. The Master’s words at the time of the interment of his father are a specimen of an elegiac expression. “Heaven do as much to me and more if I requite not to this man and his house, the ruin and disgrace him has brought on me and mine.” Again Lucy’s words, when she states about her premonitions, are worthy of note: It is decreed that every living creature, even those who owe me most kindness are to shun me and leave me to those by whom I am beset. It is just it should be thus. Alone and uncounseled, I involved myself in these perils – alone uncounseled, I must extricate myself or die. (BL 52) OPEN ACCESS