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title: Narrative Poetry
description: Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, combining poetic devices with narrative elements like plot and character. Learners will understand how to analyze epic poems, ballads, and modern narrative verse to see how storytellers utilize rhythm and meter.
category: literature-writing
subcategory: poetry
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/narrative-poetry
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# Narrative Poetry

Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, combining poetic devices with narrative elements like plot and character. Learners will understand how to analyze epic poems, ballads, and modern narrative verse to see how storytellers utilize rhythm and meter.

## Available Resources

1 Books • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Poetry Foundation - Narrative Poetry

Collection of narrative poems and essays, free resource linked in Reddit discussions.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/narrative-poetry

**Tags:** narrative poetry, poetic forms, epic, ballad, literary terms

### 2. poets.org

Poets.org is the official site of the Academy of American Poets. It features a large collection of poems and poet bios, plus audio readings, essays, and classroom resources for readers and educators.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://poets.org

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts

### 3. poetrysociety.org

PoetrySociety.org is a hub for poets and readers, offering craft-focused articles, teaching resources, and information on events, competitions, and publications. It covers a range of poetry forms and techniques, including guidance on free verse.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://poetrysociety.org

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, poetry

## Podcasts

### 1. Poetry Off the Shelf

**Author:** Poetry Foundation

Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.poetryfoundation.org/

**Tags:** poetry, poet-interviews, creative-process, contemporary-poetry

## Books

### 1. Narrative Poems

**Author:** C.S. Lewis

Collects C.S. Lewis's four long story-poems, Dymer, Launcelot, The Nameless Isle and The Queen of Drum, edited with a preface by Walter Hooper. Readers see how a twentieth-century writer handled extended verse narrative, myth and Arthurian material.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/000627837X?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, poetry

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