ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A long subsection of an epic or long narrative poem, such as Dante Alighieri’s Commedia (The Divine Comedy), first employed in English by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene. Other examples include Lord Byron’s Don Juan and Ezra Pound’s Cantos.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Cantos, by 1905 Hamilton alumnus Ezra Pound, is an 800-page, unfinished epic poem that is divided into 120 sections, or cantos.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Difference Between Stanzas and Cantos While stanzas are also discrete units within a poem, they aren’t automatically the same as cantos. Stanzas tend to be shorter and can be used in poems of any length, while cantos demarcate longer sections within a narrative poem or epic.

Detailed explanation-4: -mock-epic, also called mock-heroic, form of satire that adapts the elevated heroic style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject.