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.