Epic Poem

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



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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. [1]
  1. Michael Meyer, The Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford: St. Martin's, 2005), 2128. .