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Narrative poetry is
poetry that tells a story. The poems may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be simple or complex. It is usually nondramatic, with objective verse and regular rhyme scheme and meter. Narrative poems include
epics,
ballads, and
idylls.
The oldest narrative form
Narrative poetry is among the oldest, and perhaps
the oldest, genre of poetry. Much of the earliest literary works we've from many literatures, from the epic of
Gilgamesh to those of
Homer, in
Old English poetry and
Old Norse poetry, or the
Sanskrit poem the
Mahabarata, consist of narrative poems. Many scholars of Homer, from
Quintus Smyrnaeus forward, have concluded that his tales of the
Iliad and
Odyssey were composed from compilations of shorter narrative poems that related individual episodes, and which were more suitable for an evening's entertainment.
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, a
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 these examples use
medieval and
Arthurian materials, romances may also tell stories from
classical mythology.
Shorter narrative poems are often similar in style to the
short story. Sometimes these short narratives are collected into interrelated groups, as with
Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales. Some literatures contain prose narratives that includes poems and poetic interludes; much Old
Irish poetry is contained within prose narratives, and the Old Norse
sagas include both incidental poetry and the biographies of poets. An example is The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service.
Oral tradition
Much of narrative poetry is
performance poetry and has its source in an
oral tradition: the
Scots and
English ballads, the tales of
Robin Hood, of, and various
Baltic and
Slavic heroic 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 form. 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.
Narrative poems
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
Piers Plowman by William Langland
The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tam Lin (anonymous)
Tam o' Shanter, by Robert Burns
The Truant by E.J. Pratt
Terje Vigen by Henrik IbsenFurther Information
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