While " themes " ( inherited narrative subunits for representing familiar classes of event, such as the " arming the hero ", or the particularly well-studied " hero on the beach " theme ) do exist across Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic works, some scholars conclude that Anglo-Saxon poetry is a mix of oral-formulaic and literate patterns, arguing that the poems both were composed on a word-by-word basis and followed larger formulae and patterns.

The Cantigas are composed of 420 poems, 356 of which are in a narrative format relating to Marian miracles ; the rest of them, except an introduction and two prologues, are of lore or involve Marian festivities.

Many epic poems of various cultures were pieced together from shorter pieces of traditional narrative verse, which explains their episodic structure and often their in medias res plot developments.

Epic narrative allowed poets like Homer no opportunity for personal revelations but Hesiod's extant work comprises didactic poems and here he went out of his way to let his audience in on a few details of his life, including three explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony that support inferences.

Growing out of this courtly culture, Middle High German literature reached its peak in lyrical love poetry, the Minnesang, and in narrative epic poems such as Tristan, Parzival, and the Nibelungenlied.

A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry ; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines.

He remains for several days, takes part in a pentathlon, and hears the blind singer Demodocus perform two narrative poems.

Allen later changed his mind about Hughes and decided that the concealed child was the Earl of Southampton, the dedicatee of Shakespeare's narrative poems.

Many scholars of Homer have concluded that his Iliad and Odyssey were composed from compilations of shorter narrative poems that related individual episodes.

Much narrative poetry — such as Scottish and English ballads, and Baltic and Slavic heroic poems — is performance poetry with roots in a preliterate oral tradition.

In 1966, he wrote poems to accompany Leonard Baskin's illustrations of crows, which became the epic narrative The Life and Songs of the Crow, one of the works for which Hughes is best known.

One, the Catalepton, consists of fourteen short poems, some of which may be Virgil's, and another, a short narrative poem titled the Culex (" The Gnat "), was attributed to Virgil as early as the 1st century AD.

Differing from the quartos of the plays, the first editions of Shakespeare's narrative poems are extremely well printed.

He published a collection of poems ( Spirits in Bondage ) and a narrative poem ( Dymer ) under the pen name " Clive Hamilton ", to avoid harming his reputation as a don at Oxford University.

The final three poems do not refer either to Israel or Moab, and are thus considered unusual, since they seem to have little relevance to the narrative.

In the view of textual criticism the narrative, excepting the episode involving the donkey, is simply a framework invented in order to be able to insert much older poems.

It consists of ten numbered poems that examine a series of emotional states, exploring suffering, despair, devotion, rather than a clear narrative.

It contained three long narrative poems ( Das Hospiz auf dem großem Saint-Bernard, Das Vermächtnis des Arztes and Die Schlacht in Loener Bruch ) and a handful of lyrics.

Balakirev's other two symphonic poems, In Bohemia ( 1867, 1905 ) and Russia ( 1884 version ) lack the same narrative content ; they are actually looser collections of national melodies and were originally written as concert overtures.

Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ; Poet Laureate from 1850 ) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom.

His treatment of long narrative poems, in a clever mixture of the dramatic and lyrical styles, was undoubtedly modelled on the ballads of Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, and has been copied by many composers since his day.

The text was reduced from 900, 000 to 750, 000 characters ; significant editing was done for narrative flow ; use of third party poems was reduced and shifted from conventional verse to finer pieces ; and most passages praising Cao Cao's advisers and generals were removed.

The characteristics of such poems include ( but are not limited to ) a strong narrative, regular poetic meter, simple content and simple form.

Some of his lyric output is inserted in his narrative poems or " dits ", such as Le remède de fortune (" The Cure of Ill Fortune ") which includes one of each genre of lyric poetry, and Le voir dit (" A True Story "), but most are included in a separate, unordered section entitled Les loanges des dames.

If Lodge, as has been supposed, was the Alcon in Colin Clout's Come Home Again, it may have been the influence of Edmund Spenser which led to the composition of Phillis, a volume of sonnets, in which the voice of nature seems only now and then to become audible, published with the narrative poem, The Complaynte of Elsired, in 1593.

Later poems deal more with an atmosphere of cosmic horror, or create a mood of being shut out from former felicity, and do not have a strong narrative through-line except occasionally over a couple of sonnets ( e. g. 17-18 ).

Bede quoted his sources at length in his narrative, as Eusebius had done.

In the narrative, just prior to this test, when Joseph had first met all of his brothers ( but not identified himself to them ), he had held a feast for them ; the narrative heavily implies that Benjamin was Joseph's favorite brother, since he is overcome with tears when he first meets Benjamin in particular, and he gives Benjamin five times as much food as he apportions to the others.

Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).

Though fascinated by the narrative elements of some of the pictures, particularly the Biblical themes of the massive paintings of Benjamin West, at this point Beaux had no aspirations of becoming an artist.

For example, Psalm 34 is attributed to David on the occasion of his escape from the Abimelech ( king ) Achish by pretending to be insane-according to the narrative in 1 Samuel 21, instead of killing the man who had exacted so many casualties from him, Abimelech allows David to depart, exclaiming, " Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me?

The narrative tells how Israel's Messiah, having been rejected by Israel ( i. e., God's chosen people ), withdrew into the circle of his disciples, passed judgment on those who had rejected him ( so that " Israel " becomes the non-believing " Jews "), and finally sent the disciples instead to the gentiles

Most commentators seem to agree that Matthew, alone among the gospels, alternates five blocks of narrative with five of discourse, marking each off with the phrase " When Jesus had finished ..." ( see Five Discourses of Matthew ).

The apologist and ascetic Tatian had previously harmonized the four gospels into a single narrative, the Diatesseron ( c 150-160 ).

Justin Meggitt states that there are fundamental similarities between the Josephus ' portrayal of John the Baptist and the New Testament narrative in that in both accounts John is positioned as a preacher of morality, not as someone who had challenged the political authority of Herod Antipas.

In autumn of 1834, Lönnrot had written the vast majority of the work needed for what was to become The Old Kalevala ; all that was required was to tie up some narrative loose ends and officially complete the work.

Although Kenyon had no doubt the sites she excavated were linked to the Old Testament narrative she nevertheless drew attention to inconsistencies, concluding that Solomon's

While this structuralist approach to Marxism and filmmaking was used, the more vociferous complaint that the Russian filmmakers had was with the narrative structure of Hollywood filmmaking.

For A series of Bird's the Palin / Jones team had their first experience of writing narrative instead of the short sketches they were accustomed to conceiving.

The two singles released, the anti-drug, anti-crime song " Pause " and street narrative " The Ave ", had little success, and the group began to look outdated.

The narrative goes on to say that Simon, having fallen in love with Helen, took her about with him, saying that she had come down into the world from the highest heavens, and was his mistress, inasmuch as she was Sophia, the Mother of All.

The literary structure of the narrative shows that Severus had in his mind principally readers on the same level of culture with himself.

Ethan said, " We wanted something that would generate a certain narrative feeling – like a modern Raymond Chandler story, and that's why it had to be set in Los Angeles ... We wanted to have a narrative flow, a story that moves like a Chandler book through different parts of town and different social classes ".

The narrative states that the Æsir foresaw his arrival and had prepared grand illusions for him, so that when Gangerli enters the fortress, he sees a hall of such a height that he has trouble seeing over it, and notices that the roof of the hall is covered in golden shields, as if they were shingles.

In chapter 8 of Fagrskinna, a prose narrative states that, after the death of her husband Eric Bloodaxe, Gunnhild Mother of Kings had a poem composed about him.

He had coins struck which called him king there, but there is no narrative record of his occupation.