Narrative poetry is poetry that tells a story, and amongst the oldest genre of poetry. A narrative poem is quite short and generally gives a direct appeal to human interest such as love, hate etc. We have read two types of poems which are ballads and monologues. Ballads are poems that tell a story in song, normally ending with a tragedy. It is a rhythmic saga of a past affair, which may be heroic, romantic or satirical, almost inevitably catastrophic, which is related in the third person.The ballad is a shorter narrative form related to individual episodes and suitable...
narrative poem. I felt this way for numerous reasons, because it was a fast-paced narrative poem which kept the reader interested in the poem unlike the others which were slightly boring. The reader always kept the reader's attention and so I felt it was the best poem that I read. The other poems were more boring and in some cases just showed the destructive side of love rather than two different points of views on love. I found the poem 'The Highwayman' better because it showed both the romantic side of love and also the violent side of love.