what are the features of an epic poem?
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An epic is a long narrative poem written in an elevated style. It is usually based on the exploits of legendary or divine characters, and deals with events significant to an entire society. \n\nThe traditional or folk epics are based upon legend and history preserved through oral traditions. Such epics include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and the medieval epic Beowulf. Literary epics are learned imitations of the traditional form, such as Virgil's Aeneid and Milton's Paradise Lost (1667). \n\nSome recurring features of the structure and action of classical epics have come to be viewed as epic conventions. Structurally, the epic begins with a statement of the poem's "argument" (subject matter), proceeds to an invocation to a muse or divine source of inspiration, and then jumps into the action in medias res ("in the middle of things"). Earlier events are later recounted in narrative flashbacks. \n\nOther epic conventions include the arming of the hero, extraordinary deeds of battle, a great journey (including a descent to the underworld), and the active intervention of gods or supernatural beings. \n\nBy extension, the term "epic" is also applied to novels, dramas, and films which have epic grandeur in the scale of their action or the importance of their subject to human society at large.
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poems of different country(epics) man i need to pay attention in Reading Class a little more
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http://www.authorsden.com/categories/poetry.asp?alpha=a&catid=73
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sonnet\nhaiku\nlimerick\nballad\nsestina \nfree verse\nanogram\nCinquain\nepic
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Wow, very beautiful and powerful.  I particularly love the first 3 lines as well as the lines about sending peace and love, but little hate or envy.  \n\nKeep on writing!  :)
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If you want to be a good poet, you will have to consider several abilities as mentioned below.\n1) Identification ability of a  good poem,\n2) Knowledge of poem making techniques,\n3) Broad experience on reading good poems.\n4) Creative mind,\n5) Good knowledge of the language,\n6) vision.\nare some of important factors to be consedered when making a good poem.
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Poesia tem dificuldades entre das linguas. You should study or refer to shakespeare or milton. Also you want to relate your emotions/ perceptions. An electronic dictionary will not help. Not with this.\n\nOh, by the way, damn good poetry. maravilhosa.
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Post the poem or at least a link to it, and be more specific about what you need help analyzing.
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Everything. Pretty much. Dwarves. Rings. Kings. Epic saga of trial and loss. Etc. and Etc. Just open up to any page and land a finger on a line. Then think Norse.\n\nYou need to post this in "homework help" or in a Literature category, to get more answers.
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Super question because there are several types of epic poems.\n\nI never knew this until I checked, so thanks for asking it!\n \nEpic comes from the Greek word epikos meaning a word, song or speech.\n\n1. You have your "classical epic", a long narrative poem usually about a hero, like the Iliad or the Odyssey\n\n2. Then there's the "literary epic", for example Milton's "Paradise Lost" which is so epic (loooong) you can only read small bits without getting a headache in your eye.\n\n3. The "folk epic", like "Beowulf" is all about the traditions of a nation. Lots of swords and stabbings and bizzare spellings.\n\n4. Any long important (and long) poem like Dante's "Inferno" is an epic just because it is so long. Long is the word here.
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Shakespeare is the most notable practitioner of blank verse as a dramatic form, and his plays are, in fact, written predominantly, though not entirely, in blank verse. Even in the twentieth century T. S. Eliot and Maxwell Anderson used blank verse as a vehicle for staged drama, though by that time their efforts were self-consciously anachronistic. \n\n\nBlank verse has also been a favored form for reflective and narrative poems. The stately, majestic cadences of John Milton’s religious epic “Paradise Lost” demonstrate the extraordinary incantatory power of that pattern maintained over long stretches of poetry. Take, for example, the single long sentence that constitutes the first sixteen lines of the “Invocation” to Book I of “Paradise Lost”: \n\n\nOf man’s first disobedience, and the fruit \n\nOf that forbidden tree whose mortal taste \n\nBrought death into the world, and all our woe, \n\nWith loss of Eden, till one greater Man \n\nRestore us and regain the blissful seat, \n\nSing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top \n\nOf Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire \n\nThat shepherd who first taught the chosen seed \n\nIn the beginning how the Heavens and Earth \n\nRose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill \n\nDelight thee more, and Siloa’s brook that flowed \n\nFast by the oracle of God, I thence \n\nInvoke thy aid to my adventurous song, \n\nThat with no middle flight intends to soar \n\nAbove th’ Aonian mount, while it pursues \n\nThings unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. \n\n\nMilton himself likened blank verse to the unrhymed verse of “Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin” and called it “English heroic verse without rhyme.” He considered rhyme “no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame meter. . . .” Milton defended his choice of blank verse for his epic as no defect, “though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers,” but rather an “[esteemed] example set, the first in English, of an ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome modern bondage of rhyming” (John Milton, “The Verse,” preface to “Paradise Lost).
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A poem can be almost any thing. It doesn't have to rime ether. Here is an example.\n"I don't know how to write a poem.\nI must be very dumb.\nI don't know how to write a poem.\nI must be a bum."\nNo offense!!!
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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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Sure, but you're question is a bit vague. What, specifically, do you want to know? I can type out the entire poem for you, if that's what you need.
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http://www.eliteskills.com/poetry/improving_poetry.php
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Fire and Ice is a rhymed poem. It basically says that heated emotions, such as anger...and the cold emotions, such as arrogance and indifference...are deadly and can cause your downfall. It's a serious short poem, but Frost's tone is flippant and ironic.
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Did you see the Wikipedia article on Epics?