Hello reading champions! Your challenge this week is to read:
38. An epic poem
A poem - that should be quick and easy, right? Maybe not.
An epic poem tends to be rather long - as long as a novel, in fact, but with an exciting narrative to spur you on. Before the development of writing, epic poems were memorized and played an important part in maintaining a record of the great deeds and history of a culture.
While memorising or even reciting an epic poem this week is optional, we do invite you to read one - think "Beowulf", Homer's "Odyssey" or Milton's "Paradise Lost".
A quick Google search will give you some examples of epic poems which you can then search for in our library catalogue, if you don't have you own copy. Fortunately we also have some epic poems available as audiobooks.
Have you missed out on hearing about the 52 Book Challenge? Catch up here.
38. An epic poem
A poem - that should be quick and easy, right? Maybe not.
An epic poem tends to be rather long - as long as a novel, in fact, but with an exciting narrative to spur you on. Before the development of writing, epic poems were memorized and played an important part in maintaining a record of the great deeds and history of a culture.
While memorising or even reciting an epic poem this week is optional, we do invite you to read one - think "Beowulf", Homer's "Odyssey" or Milton's "Paradise Lost".
A quick Google search will give you some examples of epic poems which you can then search for in our library catalogue, if you don't have you own copy. Fortunately we also have some epic poems available as audiobooks.
Have you missed out on hearing about the 52 Book Challenge? Catch up here.
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