Narrative poem

A narrative poem is a long story in vers that contains many narrative elements. In fact there are desciptions of the characters, there is the use of a narrator and there is the setting in time and place. It's written in Middle English. It's often in the first person. In Middle Ages there were many genres of narrative poem: the "examples", that have a moral teaching from real events or fantastic situations; the romance, that is about love and war; and the fabliau, that is comic and it's about sex. The goal of the narrative poem is to teach values and to give a moral. It tells about the changing of the society from a religious view to a lay outlook. The greatest example of a narrative poem in medieval literature is "Canterbury's Tales", written by Geoffrey Chaucer.It's a long poem in vers, framed by a General Prologue. It's set in Canterbury, Jerusalem, Rome and Santiago of Compostela. It tells about all the society except the aristocrats.