what is an epic poem?
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Oh, golly. This takes me back to high school. If I remember right, an epic is characterized by three things: Length, purpose, and content.\n\nEpics are narrative style, telling a story. The story is culturally significant, and takes a long time to make the point. The Illiad/Oddessy poem, for example, explained to early Greeks how their civilization was unfied for the first time and how the gods played a part in the process. The Aenead, on the other hand, gave evidence to Romans that their ruling family had been divinely selected from the distant past.
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technical? yeah its a poem.
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An epic story is a long, exalted narrative poem, usually on a serious subject, centered on a heroic figure. The earliest epics, known as primary, or original, epics, were shaped from the legends of an age when a nation was conquering and expanding; such is the foundation of the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, of the Iliad and the Odyssey of the Greek Homer, and of the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. Literary, or secondary, epics, written in conscious imitation of earlier forms, are most notably represented by Vergil's Aeneid and Milton's Paradise Lost.\n\nCommon in an epic story is the epic hero cycle with the following as its elements:\n\n1. The main character is a hero, who is often possessed of supernatural abilities or qualities.\n2.The hero is charged with a quest.\n3. The hero is tested, often to prove the worthiness of himself and his quest.\n4. The presence of numerous mythical beings, magical and helpful animals, and human helpers and companions\n5. The hero’s travels take him to a supernatural world, often one that normal human beings are barred from entering.\n6. The cycle must reach a low point where the hero nearly gives up his quest or appears defeated.\n7. A resurrection.\n8. Restitution. Often this takes the form of the hero regaining his rightful place on the throne.
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A poem need not rhyme. Just go with what you know in a lyrical flow and you will have a lovely poem. Good Luck!
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If your looking for an epic poem, try Evangeline. It was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about a maiden and a search for her lover. It's based upon the expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755. The poem is long, but I highly recommend it.
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Read it. How does it affect you emotionally? Try to relate to the poem. Then, just do the grunt work of memorizing. When you get stuck, try to remember how it made you feel and that can lead you to your next line, etc.
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These are just a very few examples of different types of poetry. Most of the definitions have at least one example of each particular type of poetry for better understanding.\n\nClick link below for further information:
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The point of the poem is not really what it means... because what it means is basically what you read. There is no underlying deep, philosophical meaning to it. It is a simply, living poem. When you read it, its supposed to "conjure" up the images, the sounds, the tastes, etc. It's the imagery thats strong and important. The meaning of the poem is really basic, so I won't tell you specifically tell you what it is. But my answer is a hint.
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It's your poem, your life experience.
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Your poem gives me a smile. If your poems are as good as this one, i think you should publish more poems. I have heard that Xlibris will publish some quality poems. try to look into their website... in case you are interested.
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A lyric poem is one that is or can be set to music. "A brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion, and creating for a reader a singer, unified impression" is the textbook definition, though.  Are you talking about Blake's poem.  If so, I would call that a lyric poem.  (By the way, it's "lyric" poem, not "lyrical").
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Shakespeare is known primarily for verse in iambic pentameter: ie sonnets. Iambic pentameter is a series of five pairs of unstresses/stressed syllables: u / u / u / u / u / . The Shakespearean sonnet is 14 lines of ip following this rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg. Typically the first 12 lines develop the thought, the last two resolve/conclude the poem. The monologues and soliloguies that are taken from his plays are usually also in ip. He is also known from a number of lyric songs in his plays. These are usually pastoral, sometimes comic.\n\nMilton is known for his 2 major epics, Paridise Lost and Paradise Regained. His epics are noted for their extended metaphor and convoluted sentence structure. He also wrote a number of sonnets, but in the Petrarchan model: abba cddc efeefe--conflict generally presented in first 8, resolution in last 6. \n\nThat's all I've got at the moment. Helpful?
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lyric poem - definition of lyric poem in General\nNoun 1. lyric poem - a short poem of songlike quality
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Just poetry\nOk, we need poetry sometimes.
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A poem that gives artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person.
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"The Mahabharata" is longest epic poem in the world. Originally 24 thousand verses, it slowly grew to 100 thousand. It's a collection of narratives telling the story of King Bharata and his descendants. A great war takes place between two lines of Bharata's descendents, the Brothers of 100 and Brothers of 5. Both clans claim to be the rightful heir to the throne.\n\nThe epic was written by several authors, although the work is traditionally attributed to Vyasa.\n\n"The Bhagavad Gita," although an independent work, takes place in the context of "The Mahabharata." It is a religious-philosophical dialectic between Krishna (God) and Arjuna (one of the 5 Brothers) that takes place before the first battle.
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well, if u wrote it, CONGRAGULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, if not i think this is just a ordinary poem, probably written to impress a lady or something. I have a friend who published poems, and this poem would be an B- or 7.5/10 grade, which would not make it to the poem industry. But as I said, this poem has a lot of rich text that is exceptionally enriching. It takes great skill to write that, and that is why we are not all writers.