Some think that a story has no place <br />in poetry - 'Put it in the short stories, ' <br />he said, dismissing a poem I wrote <br />as a narrative, as though such verse <br />must be relegated to short fiction. <br /> <br />Must I go back to Beowulf, composed <br />in the first half of the eighth century, <br />to illustrate the validity of the form <br />(written in meter without using rime) ? <br /> <br />Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book <br />is a long poem of dramatic monologues <br />in twelve books concerning a murder <br />and an adulterous affair in Florence. <br /> <br />Less scribbling and more reading <br />might improve one's perspective, <br />don't you think?<br /><br />Michael Pruchnicki<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/long-poems-short-stories/
