What makes a good narrative poem?

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What makes a good narrative poem?

Narrative manes telling a story, so a narrative poem is a telling a story in the form of a poem. So that I can answer the above question I will look at the following areas and see if the poems that I was concentrating on fit in to these categories. I think that a good narrative poem should have, an interesting storyline, interesting characters, sounds good and it has good use of words

Interesting Storyline

If a poem has an interesting storyline it needs to use myths and legends. The myth and legends keep the adiances interesting in the poem.  Myth and legends are stories that have been around a long time. The Griesly Bride and the legend of west Lochtarbet are both poems that sound if they have been around for a long time. I can tell that the legend of west Lochtarbert has been around a long time because of the language that it uses for example, “they rest on their oars awhile”, we would not use the word awhile like it is used here. “At ebb of day a mother called” the word ebb means end, we don’t even use this word.

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The ballad of the bread mans is a very well know story but it some changes have been made and it has been brought up to the modem times. It is the story of Jesus. For example we know that Jesus was born in a stable but in the poem he was born in an annex which was next to the local pub. In the times of Jesus there was no pubs. The story is interesting in this poem because it is a very famous story but it has been given a slant so that we see the story in ...

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