XGenesisX
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| 30 Mar 2013 09:58 AM |
Challenge Accepted.
The long poem traces its origins to the ancient epics, such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. With more than 220000 (100000 shloka or couplets) verses and about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is one of the longest epic poems in the world. [1] It is roughly ten times the size of the Iliad and Odyssey combined, roughly five times longer than Dante's Divine Comedy, and about four times the size of the Ramayana. In English, Beowulf, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, are among the first important long poems. The long poem thrived and gained new vitality in the hands of experimental Modernists in the early 1900s and has continued to evolve through the 21st century.
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ScriptOn
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| 30 Mar 2013 09:59 AM |
I know that, you could've just replied to my forum dude...
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XGenesisX
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| 30 Mar 2013 10:00 AM |
"Copying an incorrect wiki doesn't make you cool. The longest poem ever made was by the ancient Greeks."
How am I trying to look cool?
You're making a personal attack on me.
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