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THE MEDIEVAL NARRATIVE POEM - Coggle Diagram
THE MEDIEVAL NARRATIVE POEM
THE NARRITIVE POEM
It's a story in verse
Narrative elements
Setting in time and place
description of characters
use of a narrator,often in the first person
the story can be long or short
COLLECTIONS OF STORIES
very popular in the middle ages
Dual aim: to entertain and instruct
The narration
expressed the moral views of the time
depicted the changing social structure
the poems offered an insight into: the lifesyles, the psychology, the experiences of individual characters
THE CANTERBURY TALES ( by Geoffrey Chaucer)
greatest example of a medieval narrative poem in English literature
a long poem, framed by a general prologue
not simply a collection of verse tales
each tale is told by a character
each tale has a meaning in relation to the character of its storyteller
the other character make up the audience