Narrative poetry

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Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using the voices of both a narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written in metered verse. Narrative poems do not need to rhyme. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex. It is normally dramatic, with various characters.[1] Narrative poems include all epic poetry, and the various types of "lay",[2] most ballads, and some idylls, as well as many poems not falling into a distinct type.

Some narrative poetry takes the form of a

classical mythology. Sometimes, these short narratives are collected into interrelated groups, as with Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. So sagas
include both incidental poetry and the biographies of poets.

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The

memory aids that allowed the bards who recited traditional tales to reconstruct them from memory.[3]

A narrative poem usually tells a story using a poetic theme. Epics are very vital to narrative poems, although it is thought those narrative poems were created to explain oral traditions. The focus of narrative poetry is often the pros and cons of life.

List of narrative poems

See also: List of epic poems, Verse novel, and Romance (prose fiction)

All

epic poems, verse romances and verse novels
can also be thought of as extended narrative poems. Other notable examples of narrative poems include:

References

  1. ^ Michael Meyer, The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005, p2134.
  2. ^ Mainly medieval, these include the Germanic Heroic lay, the Breton lai and Lai
  3. ^ David C. Rubin, Memory in Oral Traditions. The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out Rhymes (Taco University Press, 1991)

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