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I don't think they all tell a story as much as have one from which they originated. They more try to put a picture in your head
Gilgamesh is the story of a man who searches out a beloved friend in the land of the dead.
Lyric poems are less concerned with story.
The title of a book should reflect its contents. To just say that it is a book of poetry doesn't really give us enough information to go on.Only you can come up with a good name! Book Titles come from the story, not from some anonymous person on the internet! Titles are not as important as some writers think, also - your title might change many times between your first write and your final draft!Think about your story - what is going on and who are the people involved?Check out the Related Questions for help with your book, too!
Nearly all of the poems are constructed as fourteen lines, most of which are composed of rhythmic sentences of ten syllables under the following rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg. The poems are arranged into two sections in an order which suggests an underlying story involving a poet, his aristocratic friend/patron and their relationships.
After; it is the story of Odysseus's journey home.
It is the story of Odysseus' long journey home to Ithaca after the expedition.
Odysseus and his men fought and won the Trojan War with the Trojan Horse. The story is about their journey home and the quests they face, and challenges they must overcome.
"The Odyssey" is a sequel to "The Iliad," both epic poems attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. "The Iliad" focuses on the Trojan War, while "The Odyssey" follows the journey of Odysseus as he tries to return home after the war.
Odysseus and his men fought and won the Trojan War with the Trojan Horse. The story is about their journey home and the quests they face, and challenges they must overcome.
The Iliad and the Odyssey became popular poems and were taught in schools.
The Iliad (the story of Ilium, another word for Troy - the poem relates an episode in the Trojan War) and the Odyssey - an account of the ten-year journey of Odysseus home from Troy to ithaca.
Homer's second epic poem is called the "Odyssey." It tells the story of Odysseus's journey home after the Trojan War and his trials and adventures along the way.
No. Both epic poems were written by Homer (Greek). The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War, about the last year of the war. The chief protagonists are Achilles, Agamemnon, Patroclus, Hector, Paris. The Odyssey is about a Greek hero, Odysseus. After the Trojan War, he started his 10 year long journey home (to Itacha), where everybody thought he was dead. Only his wife Penelpoe believed that he would come home. On his journey he had many adventures (the one-eyed Polyphemus, the Sirens, Circe, etc) and finally he got home.
The Iliad tells a story of a few weeks towards the end of a decade-long Greek piratical raid on the coast of Asia Minor. Other poems, tales and pottery tell more bits about it. There is no book about the Trojan story from antiquity.
The main source is The Iliad by Homer, which tells about a few weeks of the 10th year in the closing stage of the war. The rest of the story is bits and pieces from later writings, poems, pottery and plays.
Odysseus is known to us only as a character in the Greek epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, which tell the story of the Trojan War and its aftermath. Scholars are not in agreement over whether the Trojan War was an actual historical event, but if it was, archaeological evidence and cultural references in the poems themselves seem to indicate a date sometime in the 1200's B.C.