Narrative poetry - Wikipedia Narrative poetry From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Narrative poem) Jump to navigation Jump to search Form of poetry which tells a story Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse. Narrative poems do not need 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 objectives, diverse and meter.[1] Narrative poems include epics, ballads, idylls, and lays. 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 the 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 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. An example is "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service. Contents 1 Oral tradition 2 List of narrative poems 3 References 4 External links Oral tradition[edit] Literature Major forms Novel Poetry Drama Short story Novella Genres Adventure Comedy Drama Epic Erotic Nonsense Lyric Mythopoeia Rogue Romance Satire Speculative fiction Tragedy Tragicomedy Media Performance Play Books Techniques Prose Poetry History and lists History modern Outline Glossary of terms Books Writers Literary awards poetry Discussion Criticism Theory (critical theory) Sociology Magazines  Literature portal v t e The oral tradition is the predecessor of essentially all other modern forms of communication. For thousands of years, cultures passed on their history through the oral tradition from generation to generation. A clear example of this – and the oldest one – comes from Ancient India, the Vedic Chant, which is often considered the oldest unbroken oral tradition in existence today. In addition, one of the most notable was the ancient Hebrews, people of the Middle East; they were taught and passed on the stories of God in over 115 countries worldwide. The poetry in the Bible is called the Psalms, that capture stories of conquest, failure, confession and more. Some of it is narrative in nature. 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, of Iskandar, 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 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.[2] 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[edit] La Araucana, Spanish epic by Alonso de Ercilla Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Beowulf, oldest known English poem The Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Crank by Ellen Hopkins The Divine Comedy by Dante, Italian epic Don Juan by Lord Byron The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats Cantar de mio Cid, (anonymous) medieval Spanish epic The Elder Edda (anonymous) The Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer The Epic of Gilgamesh, (anonymous) ancient Babylonian/Sumerian epic Hudibras by Samuel Butler The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll The Kalevala, Finnish national epic by Elias Lönnrot Lamia by John Keats "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien Os Lusíadas (Portugal's national epic) by Luís de Camões The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser Virgil's Aeneid, the Roman national epic Metamorphoses by Ovid Statius' Thebaid The Prelude by William Wordsworth Paul Revere's Ride (The Landlord's Tale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Mile in His Shoes by Eavin Antony Kunnamkudath Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz Piers Plowman by William Langland The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning The Set-Up by Joseph Moncure March The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Song of Roland (anonymous), French chanson de geste The Wild Party by Joseph Moncure March The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tam Lin (anonymous) Tam o' Shanter, by Robert Burns Terje Vigen by Henrik Ibsen The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll Out, Out- by Robert Frost The Battle of Blenheim by Robert Southey Love, Dad by Eavin Antony Kunnamkudath "Lục Vân Tiên" by Nguyễn Đình Chiểu "Lays of Ancient Rome" by Thomas Babington Macaulay "Regulate (song)" by Warren G and Nate Dogg References[edit] ^ Michael Meyer, The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005, p2134. ^ David C. Rubin, Memory in Oral Traditions. 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