The Blind Men and The Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe is an example of Narrative Poetry. Narrative Poetry is one of many types of poetry but is especially easy to identify because it's a poem that is telling a story. Just like a story, Narrative Poems have a beginning, a middle, and an end. What makes the Narrative Poem different from a short story is that it is written in stanzas instead of paragraphs.
Some Narrative poems are very long (and can fill an entire book) and some are long enough to fit a page.
Ballads (poems about Love Stories) Lays (poems that were sung) and Epics (poems that tell the LONG story of a hero and his adventure) are examples of Narrative Poetry.
Narrative Poetry is full of rhyming words which make them easy to remember and fun to say aloud!
Some Narrative poems are very long (and can fill an entire book) and some are long enough to fit a page.
Ballads (poems about Love Stories) Lays (poems that were sung) and Epics (poems that tell the LONG story of a hero and his adventure) are examples of Narrative Poetry.
Narrative Poetry is full of rhyming words which make them easy to remember and fun to say aloud!
Try this!
Try saying John Godfrey Saxe's poem aloud.
Imagine what the blind men would have sounded like - Were they surprised? Did they sound confident of their observations and conclusions? Did they speak with an accent?
