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Post by adenil on Dec 23, 2009 23:58:54 GMT -5
It seems like whenever I write anything--long, short, poetry-esque or otherwise-- it always turns into comedic romance. Is this supportable under an epic poetry format?
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Post by hasenyager on Jan 8, 2010 19:30:20 GMT -5
I'm not an expert on epic poem format, but I know the Odyssey had traces of humor and romance in it. Like that one time when Telemachus sneezed really loud and it echoed dramatically through the halls. And when Odysseus was united with the woman he loved after a ten year journey.
It's your call. Personally, I plan to write mine on a genre totally incongruous with epic poetry, for the lolz. I can't write anything without absurdist humor creeping into it, which isn't very epic.
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Post by annieofwessex on Jan 29, 2011 16:04:56 GMT -5
Well, like hasenyager, I'm no expert, but I know that "traditional" epic poems have 9 main characteristics: (courtesy of Wikipedia!!!) # It opens in medias res. # The setting is vast, covering many nations, the world or the universe. # Begins with an invocation to a muse. # It starts with a statement of the theme. # Includes the use of epithets. # Contains long lists. # Features long and formal speeches # Shows divine intervention on human affairs. # "Star" heroes that embody the values of the civilization. If you go here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_poetry#Oral_epics_or_world_folk_epics it will explain a little more, but note that I don't think an epic necessarily HAS to include those things in order to be an epic. Hope that helps.  |
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