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.
The oral tradition is the predecessor of essentially all other modern forms of communication. For thousands of years, cultures passed on their history through oral tradition from generation to generation. Historically, much of poetry has its source in an oral tradition: in more recent times the Scots and Englishballads, the tales of Robin Hood poems all were originally intended for recitation, rather than reading. In many cultures, there remains a lively tradition of the recitation of traditional tales in verse format. It has been suggested that some of the distinctive features that distinguish poetry from prose, such as metre, alliteration, and kennings, at one time served as 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.
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The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with Western Europe and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject You may improve this article discuss the issue on the talk page or create a new article as appropriate March 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message 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 novel in verse An example of this is The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning In terms of narrative poetry romance is a narrative poem that tells a story of chivalry Examples include the Romance of the Rose or Tennyson s Idylls of the King Although those examples use medieval and Arthurian materials romances may also tell stories from 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 Contents 1 Oral tradition 2 List of narrative poems 3 References 4 External linksOral tradition EditThe oral tradition is the predecessor of essentially all other modern forms of communication For thousands of years cultures passed on their history through oral tradition from generation to generation Historically much of poetry has its source in an oral tradition in more recent times the Scots and English ballads the tales of Robin Hood poems all were originally intended for recitation rather than reading In many cultures there remains a lively tradition of the recitation of traditional tales in verse format It has been suggested that some of the distinctive features that distinguish poetry from prose such as metre alliteration and kennings at one time served as 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 EditSee 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 The anonymous Homeric Hymns to Demeter Apollo Aphrodite Hermes Dionysus and Pan Metamorphoses by Ovid The anonymous Poetic Edda Piers Plowman by William Langland The Book of the Duchess and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Assembly of Gods anonymous The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian by Robert Henryson Tam Lin anonymous Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis The Lover s Complaint The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare Hudibras by Samuel Butler The Dunciad and The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope Halloween poem by Robert Burns The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Childe Harold s Pilgrimage and Lara A Tale by Lord Byron The Eve of St Agnes and Lamia by John Keats The Prisoner of the Caucasus by Alexander Pushkin Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay Paul Revere s Ride The Courtship of Miles Standish and The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Battle of Marathon A Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Snow Bound by John Greenleaf Whittier Idylls of the King and many other works by Alfred Lord Tennyson The Fakeer of Jungheera by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came and Red Cotton Night Cap Country by Robert Browning Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold Terje Vigen by Henrik Ibsen The Hunting of the Snark and The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll Eros and Psyche by Robert Bridges Luceafărul by Mihai Eminescu The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J R R Tolkien The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost The Wild Party and The Set Up by Joseph Moncure March Dymer and The Queen of Drum by C S Lewis The Ship s Cat by Richard Adams Lost in Translation by James Merrill Prentice Alvin and the No Good Plow by Orson Scott CardReferences Edit Michael Meyer The Bedford Introduction to Literature Bedford St Martin s 2005 p2134 Mainly medieval these include the Germanic Heroic lay the Breton lai and Lai David C Rubin Memory in Oral Traditions The Cognitive Psychology of Epic Ballads and Counting out Rhymes Taco University Press 1991 External links Edit nbsp Poetry portal nbsp Media related to Narrative poems at Wikimedia Commons 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