Epic Poem

An Epic Poem is a lengthy narrative poem that contains epic story (which contains extraordinary heroic events).

• Context:
  • It can (typically) represent a long memory about people and events that explain the morals of a society.
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• Example(s):
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh.
  • The Illiad.
  • The Odyssey.
  • The Mahabharata.
  • Apollonius of Rhodes, The Argonautica.
  • The Aeneid (~19 BCE), by Virgil.
  • Metamorphoses (~8 AD), by Ovid.
  • Beowulf (~8th-11th century CE).
  • The Shahnameh (~1010), by Firdawsi.
  • The Nibelungenlied (13th century).
  • The Song of Roland (11th-12th century).
  • The Divine Comedy (1320), by Dante Alighieri.
  • The Lusiads (~1572), by Luis de Camoëns.
  • The Faerie Queene (~1590), by Edmund Spenser.
  • Paradise Lost (1667), by John Milton.
  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell?? (~1793), by William Blake.
  • The Waste Land (1922), T. S. Eliot.
  • The Cantos, by Ezra Pound.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Short Poem.
  • a Sonnet.
• See: Religious Text.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_poetry Retrieved:2021-6-2.
  • An epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants, the poet and their audience, to understand themselves as a people or nation.

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