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Epic poetry is a genre of narrative literature that celebrates heroic feats and legendary events in an elevated style.
Originating from ancient oral storytelling traditions, epics are typically long, often divided into books or sections. They feature a grand scope, a vast setting, noble or semi-divine heroes, the involvement of gods and supernatural beings, and a mix of dialogue and descriptive narration.
Homer’s ‘The Iliad‘ and ‘The Odyssey,‘ Virgil’s ‘Aeneid,’ and Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ are all examples of epic poetry.
‘The Song of Hiawatha: Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the fourth part of ‘The Song of Hiawatha.’ The poem details exciting moments in Hiawatha’s physical and spiritual journey.
Out of childhood into manhood
Now had grown my Hiawatha,
Skilled in all the craft of hunters,
Learned in all the lore of old men,
‘After the Storm’ narrates Shabine’s journey of finding his own self through personal crisis in the wake of a turbulent sea-voyage
There’s a fresh light that follows a storm
while the whole sea still havoc; in its bright wake
I saw the veiled face of Maria Concepcion
marrying the ocean, then drifting away
‘The Song of Hiawatha’ Introduction by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the first in a series of sections, or cantos, from the long epic poem, ‘The Song of Hiawatha.’
Should you ask me, whence these stories?
Whence these legends and traditions,
With the odors of the forest
With the dew and damp of meadows,
‘Love of Country’ presents a world in which patriotism is the most important virtue of all and the lack of it is unforgivable.
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
‘America: A Prophecy’ reveals the intense struggle for freedom, where oppression gives birth to fiery transformation. Blake’s powerful imagery speaks to revolutionary change, much like the battles for civil rights that continue today.
The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc,
When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode:
His food she brought in iron baskets, his drink in cups of iron:
Crown'd with a helmet and dark hair the nameless female stood;
‘Hiawatha’s Childhood’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow describes how the protagonist of ‘The Song of Hiawatha’ grew up and learned about his surroundings. It also focuses on the life of his grandmother.
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By yhr shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
Patrick Kavanagh’s ‘On Looking Into E. V. Rieu’s Homer’ honors Rieu’s translations, showing how literature blends imagination with reality and shapes perception.
Like Achilles you had a goddess for mother,
For only the half-god can see
The immortal in things mortal;
‘August 1945’ by Hayden Carruth takes the reader into a scene at the end of World War 2, as four soldiers come to terms with their experiences.
Sweating and greasy in the dovecote where one of them lived
four young men drank "buzzy" from canteen cups, the drink
made from warm beer mixed half-and-half with colorless Italian
distilled alcohol. A strange fierce taste like bees in the mouth.
‘Epic Smilie’ by A.E. Stallings uses a simile of an epic hero longing for a hero’s death to depict how as one seeks out happiness it may become more allusive and harder to enjoy than it was to begin with.
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