叙じょ事じ詩し

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

1

epic poem; epic poetry

Refers to long narrative poems about heroic deeds and events, as a literary genre or individual works.

Homer's epic poems are the foundation of Western literature.

この叙じょ事じ詩しは古こ代だいの英えい雄ゆうの冒ぼう険けんを描えがいている。

This epic poem depicts the adventures of an ancient hero.

〈人ひと〉が叙じょ事じ詩しを書かくfor someone to write an epic poem
その詩し人じんは戦せん争そうをテーマにした叙じょ事じ詩しを書かいた。
The poet wrote an epic poem on the theme of war.
叙じょ事じ詩し的てきな〈事こと〉epic in scale or grandeur (of an event or story)
その映えい画がは叙じょ事じ詩し的てきな壮そう大だいさを持もっていた。
The film had an epic grandeur to it.

物もの語がたりN3
物語 is a general word for a story or tale in any form, while 叙事詩 refers specifically to a long narrative poem about heroic events.
エピック
叙事詩 is the traditional Japanese term for an epic poem or narrative, while エピック is a looser loanword used across literature, film, and games.

抒じょ情じょう詩し
叙情詩 and 叙事詩 look and sound alike, but 叙情詩 expresses personal feelings while 叙事詩 narrates heroic events and deeds.

From 叙事 (じょじ, 'narration') + 詩 (し, 'poem'). The term is a Meiji-era coinage used to translate the Western concept of epic poetry.