Characteristics of narrative poetry

To write narrative poems, we should make a high artistic summary of social life, express the essence of life with characters and show the spirit and strength of the times. It usually includes heroic songs, epics, plays and other forms. Its structural forms are mainly divided into three narrative structures: notes, emotions and plots. Among them, narrative poems have different narrative perspectives (omniscient narrative perspective and limited narrative perspective) in different narrative structures, and there are various narrative methods. Famous foreign narrative poems include Sir Butrick Spencer, King Randall, Ode to the Ancient Boatman, jesse james, Frankie and Johnny.

China's folk narrative poetry is a kind of Han folk poetry with a relatively complete story. Narrative is a prominent feature of Han folk narrative poems. Wizards, artists and singers play an important role in the creation and dissemination of Han folk narrative poems, and some important works also include professional singers. In addition to oral form, some of these poems have manuscripts.

Most of the Han folk narrative poems are relatively complete in structure, and the stories have a beginning, a development, a climax, an ending and some have an ending. Metaphor, exaggeration, parallelism, personification, overlapping, repetition and other rhetorical devices abound, among which there are many perfect literary works, which have a long history and occupy an important position in Chinese folk literature. Some of these chapters are not only the precious wealth of Han literature, but also of world significance. At the same time, it is also of great value in the study of ethnology, folklore, religion, linguistics and other disciplines.