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This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in literary academia.
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using the voices of both a narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written in metered verse. Narrative poems do not need to rhyme. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex.
The stories have been collected in several editions, each an expanded version of the previous, the most recent Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot by From Beyond Press. Many of the ideas and puns for Bretnor's stories were contributed by others, including F. M. Busby and E. Nelson Bridwell.
In other words, it is a long story that is intended to be amusing and that has an intentionally silly or meaningless ending. [1] Shaggy-dog stories play upon the audience's preconceptions of joke-telling. The audience listens to the story with certain expectations, which are either simply not met or met in some entirely unexpected manner. [2]
A long poem often functions to tell a "tale of the tribe," or a story that encompasses a whole culture's values and history. Ezra Pound coined the phrase, referring to his own long poem The Cantos. The long poem's length and scope can contain concerns of a magnitude that a shorter poem cannot address.
Lord identified two types of story vocabulary. The first he called "formulas": "Rosy-fingered Dawn", "the wine-dark sea" and other specific set phrases had long been known of in Homer and other oral epics. Lord, however, discovered that across many story traditions, fully 90% of an oral epic is assembled from lines which are repeated verbatim ...
Long's story was an instant success. Just 10 months after it appeared in print, The Century Company rushed a book version to market. [2] Appearing in October 1898, the book included several other Long stories, and began selling "like hot cakes". [1] In 1903, Century reissued the book with several tinted photographs by C. Yarnall Abbott. [7]
The Frame story, also known as the frame narrative or story within a story, is a narrative technique that probably originated in ancient Indian works such as Panchatantra. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The evolution of printing technologies and periodical editions were among the factors contributing to the increasing importance of short story publications.