I'd love to help proofread, edit, or co-author any literature or poetry factual write-ups you may be working on. Just message me a link to your scratch pad and we'll jam.
Right now, I'm researching for a cluster of nodes I want to write about epic poetry. The project will culminate with a meganode to link all of the parts I have written together with what other people have written on the subject so far.
Outline:
- Definition of epic poetry.
- Distinction between narrative poetry, epyllion, and epic.
- Distinction between primary and secondary epic.
- Broad in scope
- Unifying themes
- Begins with an invocation
- Begins in media res
- Description through elaborate similes
- Characters given epithets
- Catalogues and enumeration
- Circumscription of the cosmos (this is what I am most interested in at the moment)
- Subject of each, themes, and significance in literary tradition.