Poem 3: In your eyes, I see the reflection of my soul, a pure love, without calm. Together, we walk paths of eternity, our love, a story of immortality. Poem 4: I have a thousand reasons to love ...

If you are one who cannot stomach left-wing lyrics or metrically muted cries of despair, you may well find one or both of these narrative poems as agreeable a surprise as John Brown’s Body.

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...