Narrative
Narrative Poem- tells a story of a person or subject.
There are two kinds of Narrative poetry has two different
kinds,
one is epics, and the other are ballads.
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An epic poem describes the doing of heroes in battle between human beings.
Other epics are poems of history or people's origins.
An epic poem is one of the oldest surviving narrative poems.
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The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the best western epic poems
of all times.
These two poems were written during 700 B.C.
They were written from the Greek poet, Homer. (Not Homer Simpson!)
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Ballads tell shorter stories about a certain person.
For example, Ballads would be written about Robin Hood or King Arthur.
Ballads were created in the late middle ages,
they formed an important part of the French and English literature.
A famous example of a Ballad poem is, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner,
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge.