It's actually a very amusing literary work to read. I had a chance to read and hear parts of the Indian epic Mahabharata. It does require patience and an appreciation of poetry and language though.
It's probably one of the deepest and most meaningful type of literary work out there. It's nice to sit down at a cafe on a rainy day with a cup of coffee and read this type of poetry and ponder at the thoughts in it. Now I think is the best time to read and enjoy epic poetry since I have a much better grasp of the English language. Some of the epic poems are in old English and some have been translated, so some phrases can be a bit foreign to American readers. I actually enjoy epic poetry a lot but I think I was too young to grasp the meaning of these poems when I first read them. I read Beowulf and the Odyssey in school.
I guess this is okay in epic poetry since this was categorized as one, but it's not very common is it? This epic poem actually had dialogues in it, much like a play does. There was one called the Aeneid, which I think is a Latin poem about the Romans. I ran into a collection of classic epic poetry while at the bookstore and since I'm really into theater and writing, I skimmed through several. I want my babies to know why ‘epic’ in the sense that they use it is related to the literary epic poem, but I’m sure they couldn’t care less! So I was delighted that she used such terminology until I began to wonder if she even realized what the word ‘epic’ actually derived from and so on and so forth. Apparently, it’s good really, really good, actually. Well, first I had to figure out if that was good or bad in the world of the younger generation. When she got back to me, she told me it was ‘epic’ very enthusiastically.
An epic poem would be movie#
One had a post the other day about a movie she was going to see, and I asked her to let me know what she thought about it because I was thinking of seeing it as well. I have a love/hate relationship with a new way that the word ‘epic’ is being used.Īlthough I’m no longer in the educational field, I keep up with many of my previous student’s through Facebook and the like. I've been meaning to take a look at it for quite awhile, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I know it's been translated into a lot of different languages. Like a lot of other epic poems, the Epic of Gilgamesh has survived right up until the present day. In fact, it's known for being one of the earliest works of literature ever! Which of course makes sense, because, as the article states, epic poetry is a rather old tradition. One things that's interesting about the Epic of Gilgamesh is that it isn't just known for being an epic poem. However, what's the point of reading it if you can't understand it? I'd rather people read it in modern English than not at all! I suppose it could be argued that you should read these poems in their original language. So it was written in modern English that was easy for us to understand. I was lucky in that my teacher let us read a modern translation. A lot of people think that part of the Bible may have been influenced by the Epic of Gilgamesh, specifically the story of Noah and the flood and Adam and Eve.Īnyway, the only epic poem I've ever read was the Beowulf epic poem. October 31, - The Epic of Gilgamesh is an interesting example.
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