Narrative poetry tells a story. It is usually written in metered verse and is dramatic with objectives and diverse characters. It often focuses on the pros and cons of life. Such as the great epic poems listed below.   Beowulf, oldest known English poem The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Divine Comedy by Dante Don Juan by Lord Byron The Iliad, and  the Odyssey The Epic of Gilgamesh, “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien Paradise Lost by John Milton The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow…