01-10-2017, 06:52 PM
I don't think there should be two (epic and lyric) classes of poetry. There should be three. Lyric - music, the ear, sonics; Epic - storytelling, narration, drama, pure and simple, and there's a third, image-rich form that's not lyric and not epic, but is most of modern poetry.
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe

