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| | Poetry & Song: A Poet's Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | The narrative poem, in other words, tells a story, and though it may employ image and sonic devices and possess a distinct tone, its primary concern is on what happened, to whom, when, where, why, and to what resolution. |
 | | Narrative poets contend that much that is wrong with poetry since the beginning of the 20th Century has been a willful disregard for story, a disregard, in effect, for the poem's readers. |
 | | Narrative knows this and works openly or slyly in the discursive or linear grain, tracking possibility and consequence, which in turn depend on some assumptions of time-driven sequence. |
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