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Balen - definition of Balen in Encyclopedia (95 words) |
 | Balen is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. |
| The municipality comprises the towns of Balen proper and Olmen. |
| On January 1st, 2004 Balen had a total population of 19,871 (9,997 males and 9,874 females). |
| The Tale of Balen: Medievalism and Tragedy (Chapter 7) (6526 words) |
| In Balen they do suggest a return to natural primitivism, which is reinforced by abundant nature imagery; they allow for the extremely compressed depiction of intense action (especially in battle scenes); and they enable the poet repeatedly to underscore his tragic world view by means of simple understatement and frequent ironies. |
| Balen, of course, dies, ironically, at the hands (and virtually in the arms) of his brother, an appropriate culmination to a moving legend. |
| Balen's career, based on thwarted filial and fraternal ideals, is by extension the tragedy of mankind whose pitiable fate it is to strive for fulfillment through filial, erotic, and fraternal love, but, in doing so, to generate only strife and be freed from frustration and suffering only in death. |
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