This document discusses narrative poetry and provides examples. Narrative poetry tells a story through verse. It contains elements of a narrative like a point of view, setting, and plot. The document provides a snippet from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" as an example of narrative poetry, describing a bleak setting and the narrator's sorrow over a lost love named Lenore. Another example given is the opening verse to Robert Service's poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee" which describes strange tales that occur in the Arctic.

1. Narrative and Dramatic Poetry: narrative The Open Poetry Unit OpenEducation.ws

2. Narrative Poetry A narrative poem tells a story. Short or long, if it has a plot it's a narrative.

3. What parts of a story are contained in the following verse from “The Raven”? Point of view? Setting? Plot? Past or present tense?

4. See next slide for snippet from Poe's “The Raven”