Narrative and Dramatic Poetry: humorous

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  • 1. Narrative and Dramatic Poetry: humorous narrative poems The Open Poetry Unit OpenEducation.ws

2. Humorous Narrative poems

  • Some of the most popular poems for children are humorous narratives.

3. Here are a few lines from Casey at the Bat.How can you tell it is a comedy without knowing the rest of the story?

  • See next slide for snippet from the Ernest Lawrence Thayer poem

4. Humorous Narrative poems

  • The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;

5. The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play, 6. And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, 7. A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game. 8. A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest 9. Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast; 10. They thought, "If only Casey could but get a whack at that 11. We'd put up even money now, with Casey at the bat. 12. Humorous Narrative poems

  • Here are few lines from the famous humorous narrative poem The Cremation of Sam McGee

13. What descriptions give away the fact that this is not a serious story?

  • See next slide for snippet from the Robert Service poem.

14. Humorous narrative poems

  • Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.

15. Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows. 16. He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell; 17. Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell." 18. On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail. 19. Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail. 20. If our eyes we'd close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn't see; 21. It wasn't much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee.