Hello readers! I am the student of English Language and Literature, and here i would like to share my academic work.

1. Welcome
❖ Name: Virani Dhara R.
❖ Sem: 3 M. A. English
❖ Roll no:04
❖ Subject: The Modern Literature
❖ Email id: dharavirani601@gmail.com
❖ Submitted to: smt Gardi English Dept. MKBU
❖ Year: 2019-2021

2. Modern Epic Poem

3. What is Modern epic
❖ Epic, long narrative poem, majestic both in theme and style.
Epics deal with legendary or historical events of national or
universal significance, involving action of broad sweep and
grandeur.
❖ Most epics deals with the exploits of a single individual, there
giving unity to the composition. Typically, an epic includes
several features: the introduction of supernatural that shape
the action;conflict in the form of battles or other physical
combat.

4. ❖ Epic poems are not merely entertaining stories of legendary or
historical heroes;they summarize and express the nature or
ideals of an entire nation at a significant or crucial period of its
history. Ex. The Iliad.
❖ Epic: a long narrative poem in elevated stature presenting
characters of high position in adventures forming an organic
whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and
through their development of episodes important to the history
of a national or race.

5. Characteristics of Epic
1. The hero is of imposing stature, of national or international
importance, and of great historical or legendary significance
2. The setting is vast, covering many nations, the world, or the
universe.
3. The action consists of deeds of great valor or requiring
superhuman courage.
4. Supernatural forces- Gods, angles, demons in the action.

6. 5. A style of sustaining elevation is used.
6. The poet retains a measure of objectivity
7. Episodes important to the history of a nation or race.

7. ❖ The hero generally participates in a cyclical journey or quest,
faces adversaries that try to defeat him in his journey, and
returns home significantly transformed by his journey.
❖ The epic hero illustrates traits, performs deeds, and
exemplifies certain morals that are valued by the society from
which the epic originates.
❖ Many epic heroes are recurring characters in the legends of
their native culture

8. “The Waste Land” as the Modern epic poem
❖ The Waste Land represents our current world is a mob of
faces, of fragmented images, heap of broken images, a mere
handful of dust, spiritually dead and sexually perverse. The
universal appeal is in the fact that sexual perversion always
leads to spiritual draught and vice versa.
❖ In ‘The Waste Land’s, the scene is set, history is added, and
then the voices come in, expressing the feeling of the the war
generation.

9. Narrative poem “The Ballad of Mulan”
❖ The legendary female worrior
first immortalized in the
narrative poem “The Ballad of
Mulan”
❖ In the epic tale Mulan
herself.Her journey from village
girl to male soilder to worrior
and hero is a story that’s as
relevant and as resonant as
when it was first written over
1,500 years ago.

10. ❖ To save her ailing father from
serving in the Imperial Army, a
fearless young woman
disguises herself as a man to
battle northern invaders in
China.
❖ It's also reflect both the
modern sensibility and a deep
respect for the culture from
which it originated.

11. Work citation
● Resources
● https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/costumes-in-
disneys-mulan-reflect-the-rich-history-of-the-epic-
tale/

12. Thank you... .