Problem: Submit a five to six-page, one thousand five hundred- one thousand 8 hundred word essay on the motifs and poetic methods murder ballads or war protest songs and poems use to make their points. Include at least five motifs. Not all poems need to have all the same elements, so long as they have murder or war in common. An example of a motif might be motive for murder ballads or the anonymous soldier for war protest. Each of your points should be a motif, with examples from a couple songs or poems to illustrate it. Within each major point, you can discuss how each work presented that motif with word choice, connotation, sound, and imagery. You may also want to discuss variants, such as the murder of enemies as opposed to lovers, or war protest songs from a soldier's point of view. Your introduction and conclusion might discuss the overall meaning of murder or war protest in verse, or the effect, if any, seeing this in verse had on you compared to other genres.