2.  Stress story and action
 Epic
 Adventures of a hero
 Often related to nation-building
 Origins, beliefs, etc.
 Ex: Homer’s Illiad, Virgil’s Aeneid
 Ballad
 Meant to be sung or recited
 Repetition, refrains, obvious “poetic” language
 “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner “- Coleridge
 Epic and Ballad often intended to be oral narratives

3.  Story subordinate to song, style
 Subjective
 Concentration on emotion, thoughts
 Often single speaker
 Not as strict in convention as narrative poetry
 Brief
 Melodic
 Emotional intensity
 Often intended to be sung

4.  Epigram
 Brief, witty satire
 Elegy
 Lament for the dead
 Ode
 Long poem organized in variety of stanzas, meters,
forms
 Sonnet
 14 line; expression of emotion or idea
 Italian or English