These long lists of objects, places, and people place the finite action of the epic within a broader, universal context.

These include the epic battle of Mahabharata at Kurukshetra mentioned in the Hindu mythology ( including the recital of the Bhagavad Gita by Krishna ), and the three battles of Panipat.

These stories are often serious in tone and epic in scope, dealing with themes of grand struggle against supernatural, evil forces.

These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles, and others.

These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophically, going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides.

These including the epic Cabiria ( 1914 ), whose screenplay was attributed to Italian nationalist Gabriele d ' Annunzio.

These numbers brought an epic quality to the battle scenes.

These three imitational genres include dramatic dialogue, the drama ; pure narrative, the dithyramb ; and a mixture of the two, the epic.

These are reflected in Mesopotamian religion and in a variety of Babylonian literature in the forms of dialectic, dialogs, epic poetry, folklore, hymns, lyrics, prose, and proverbs.

These probably circulated independently, rather than being in the form of a unified epic.

These innovations were to have a profound influence not only on Roman poets, most notably Virgil in his epic poem on the founding of Rome, The Aeneid, but one that flourished throughout Europe.

These events and others in the Finnish War were later retold in a series of epic poems by Johan Ludvig Runeberg.

These two poems defined the form as the main one to be used for epic poetry in Italian for the next two centuries.

These include the bocet (" lament "), cântec batrânesc ( traditional epic ballads ; literally " song of the elders ") and the când ciobanu şi-a pierdut oile (" when the shepherd has lost the sheep ").

These include: Oleta Adams " Circle of One " album ( reaching No. 1 in the UK charts 1991 ); Marc Almond " Tenement Symphony " album which included the epic tracks " Jacky " and " The Days of Pearly Spencer "; The Associates " Wild and Lonely " album ; Rick Astley " Free " album ; B * Witched " Awake and Breathe " album ; Chris Botti " Slowing Down the World " album ; Boyzone " A Different Beat " album ; Cher " It's a Man's World " album ; Petula Clark " La Vie en Rose " track ; Lloyd Cole and the Commotions " Rattlesnakes " album ; Andrea Corr " Ten Feet High " album ; Cathy Dennis " Move to This " and " Into the Skyline " albums ; Electronic " Getting Away with It " single ( reaching No. 12 in the UK charts 1990 ); Frankie Goes to Hollywood " Welcome to the Pleasuredome " album which included their 2nd and 3rd No. 1s " Two Tribes " and " The Power of Love "; Elton John " The Big Picture " album ; Martyn Joseph " Being There " album ; Kingmaker " Sleepwalking " album ; Annie Lennox " Medusa " album ( No. 1 in the UK charts 1995 ); Let Loose " Best In Me " single ; Virginia MacNaughton " The Music " album ; Paul McCartney " Press to Play " album ; Malcolm McLaren " Duck Rock " album ; The Men They Couldn't Hang " A Map Of Morocco " single ; George Michael " Careless Whisper " single ( reaching No. 1 in 25 countries ); Liza Minnelli " Results " album ( reaching No. 6 in the UK charts 1989 ); The Moody Blues " Greatest Hits " album ; Moist " Gasoline " single ; Jimmy Nail " Crocodile Shoes " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1994 ); The Painted Word " Lovelife " album ; Pet Shop Boys " Very " album ; Pulp " Different Class " and " This Is Hardcore " albums ( both reaching No. 1 ); Rialto " Monday Morning 5: 19 " single ; Frances Ruffelle " Stranger To The Rain " single ; S Club " 7 album " ( No. 1 in the UK charts 2000 ); Scarlet " Naked " album ; Seal first 3 albums " Seal " " Seal II " " Human Being "; Siphiwo " Hope " album ( featuring Nelson Mandela on the title track ); Wendy Stark " Stark " album ; Rod Stewart " A Spanner in the Works " album and " If We Fall in Love Tonight " album and the single " Downtown Train "; Suggs " The Lone Ranger " album ; Travis " More Than Us " EP featuring Anne on the title track ; Tina Turner " Wildest Dreams " album ; Wet Wet Wet " Holding Back the River " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1989 ); Wham!

These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles, and others.

These epic introductory tendencies give way to the main portion of the story, usually involving a battle of some kind ( such as in the Iliad ) that follows this pattern: dressing for battle ( description of Achilles shield, preparation for battle ), altar sacrifice / libation to the gods, some battle change ( perhaps involving drugs ), treachery ( Achilles ankle is told to be his weak spot ), a journey to the Underworld, and the final battle.

He said, " We are now upon the very soil over which they exercised dominion ... Poetry still lingers around the scenery ...." These new Iroquois retained a literary frame of mind, but they intended to focus on " the writing of a native American epic that would define national identity.

These, however, are often considered only poems with an epic coloring ; a pure epic poem according to the rules of art was not produced during the Middle Ages.

These poems were meant to be performed in public by minstrels ( or juglares ), who each performed the traditional composition differently according to the performance context — sometimes adding their own twists to the epic poems they told, or abbreviating it according to the situation.

These include Sidney Lumet, who shot the mystery film Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ) at Elstree ; Ken Russellwho had worked with Mitchell on his first feature, the comedy film French Dressing ( 1963 ) made the biographical film Valentino ( 1977 ) at Elstree ; Stanley Kubrick with his The Shining ( 1980 ); Mitchell's previous employer Fred Zinnemann with his drama film Julia ( 1977 ); and most significantly for the studio's survival through George Lucas with his epic space opera film Star Wars ( 1977 ).

These events led to an epic battle between the original X-Men and the " All-New, All-Different " X-Men, where it seemed that Professor X betrayed the X-Men.

These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the " House of Life ", in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in a universal symbolic language.

These new poems have only a few direct references to jazz and jazz musicians, but they show changes in Patchen's approach to his poetry, for he has tried to enter into and understand the emotional attitude of the jazz musician.

These dates are virtually the only clues we have to the chronology of the poems, since the separate volumes are neither chronological within themselves nor in relation to each other.

These are the poems Hardy wrote after the death of his first wife ; ;

These later poems, mostly written before 1910, show a greater variety of subject and form than those in A Shropshire Lad but lack the consistency of his previously published work.

These poems make reference to Plath's suicide, but none of them addresses directly the circumstances of her death.

These poems and pamphlets were made public, one after the other, as once ' esteemed ' playwrights traded slanderous blows.

She later wrote " These naïve poems by a frivolous girl for some reason were reprinted thirteen times [...] And they came out in several translations.

These 156 poems can be ascribed to Wyatt with certainty, on the basis of objective evidence.

These are recorded in the Book of Taliesin, a 14th-century manuscript containing 56 poems, the majority of which are of a later date, but a number among which are accepted as dating to the 6th century.

These poems refer to victories by Urien at the battles of Argoed Llwyfain and Gwen Ystrad.

These have generally been joined together as if parts of the same work ; but they seem to be distinct poems, the first, called Phaenomena (" Appearances "), consists of 732 verses ; the second, Diosemeia (" On Weather Signs "), of 422 verses.

These poems are well formed in terms of grammar and syntax, and each nonsense word is of a clear part of speech.

These poems are now known as his Cancionero y romancero de ausencia ( Songs and Ballads of Absence ).

These insights enabled Smetana to write the three Gothenburg symphonic poems, ( Richard III, Wallenstein's Camp and Hakon Jarl ), works which transformed Smetana from a composer primarily of salon pieces to a modern neo-Romantic, capable of handling large-scale forces and demonstrating the latest musical concepts.

These adversities contributed to Finzi's bleak outlook on life, but he found solace in the poetry of Thomas Traherne and his favourite, Thomas Hardy, whose poems, as well as those by Christina Rossetti, he began to set to music.

These three poems are remarkable for the corrupt state of their text, which makes it likely that they have come from the same source and possibly are by the same author.

These influences led him to write a number of labor oriented poems, one of which became the words for the oft-sung union anthem, " Solidarity Forever ".

The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were " Song of Myself ," " A Song For Occupations ," " To Think of Time ," " The Sleepers ," " I Sing the Body Electric ," " Faces ," " Song of the Answerer ," " Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States ," " A Boston Ballad ," " There Was a Child Went Forth ," " Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

These demands were rejected by German songs and poems, including Nikolaus Becker's Rheinlied, which contained the verse: " Sie sollen ihn nicht haben, den freien, deutschen Rhein ..." ( They shall not have it, the free, German Rhine ).

These included the London-Welsh poet and painter David Jones, whose first book, In Parenthesis, was one of the very few experimental poems to come out of World War I, the Scot Hugh MacDiarmid, Mina Loy and Basil Bunting.

These poems had traditionally commented, often satirically, on national events, but by the end of the 18th century they were increasingly serious and personal.

These poems were " Lesbos ", " Femmes damnés ( À la pâle clarté )" ( or " Women Doomed ( In the pale glimmer ...)"), " Le Léthé " ( or " Lethe "), " À celle qui est trop gaie " ( or " To Her Who Is Too Gay "), " Les Bijoux " ( or " The Jewels "), and " Les " Métamorphoses du Vampire " ( or " The Vampire's Metamorphoses ").

These first-person narrative poems ( all but one are written in octosyllabic rhymed couplets, like the romance, or " roman " of the same period ) follow many of the conventions of the Roman de la rose, including the use of allegorical dreams ( songes ), allegorical characters, and the situation of the narrator-lover attempting to return toward or satisfy his lady.

These last poems, written in the heroic couplet, contain some of the finest passages in Drayton's writings.

These show his power of dealing with chronological, topographical, and personal questions, and also contain some poems.