What is a poem?
To those who ask themselves what is called a poem,You can answer simply: a poem is the same poem, only a large poem. Immediately make a reservation: the poem is also called an epic - medieval and even ancient. This is not quite true, rather the poem appeared from the epic. As a rule, such works reflect well-known historical events. For example, "Mahabharata" or "Iliad," or "Song of Roland." We, however, dwell on more poetic works closer to us in time, called poems. And, in particular, on their genre varieties.
Genre varieties of poems
It is easier to understand what a poem is when you know itgenre varieties. So, thematically poems are divided into heroic, didactic, that is instructive, satirical, with a romantic or lyrical dramatic plot, burlesque, that is, eccentric, and also playful-heroic.
Famous poems
To better understand what a poem is in literature,let us turn to the list of famous poems. It came down to us from the gray-haired ancient "Eneid" of the ancient Roman poet Virgil, the "Divine Comedy" of the Italian poet Dante, the "Rossiade" of the Russian poet M.M. Kheraskov, Henrirad Voltaire and others. All these poems are on the historical or religious theme that stirs all. Those who want to better understand what a poem is, it would be nice to get acquainted with poems with a romantic plot. These include the famous "Shahname" Firdousi, and "Knight in the Panther's Skin" by Shota Rustaveli.
By the way, the heyday of such a genre as a poem happenedjust at the time of romanticism. At that time, many poets expressed their philosophical and philosophical views precisely through a poem, such as, say, J. Byron in "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" or AS Pushkin in "The Bronze Horseman", or M. Yu. Lermontov in "The Demon" .
Poem in the Soviet era
In Soviet poetry, the genre of the poem was also veryis popular. Moreover, poets used different genre varieties of the poem. So, the heroic direction is traced in the poems of V. Mayakovsky poems "Good!" and "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin," in "Vasily Terkin" by A. Tvardovsky, lyrical and psychological - in "Anne Snegina" by S. Yesenin, historical - in the Tobolsk chronicler L. Martynov, socio-historical and moral - in "The Middle Ages "V. Lugovsky.
