Both evoke feelings. As these two examples demonstrate, length has little to do with whether or not a poem is narrative or lyrical even though narrative poems are often longer than lyric verse. Most, if not all, of the poems in this section are long lyric poetry rather than narrative verse. Consider the differences between a Shakespearean sonnet, for example, and the sonnets written by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Its formal structures have a long history upon which contemporary poets draw.
Poetry usually requires some awareness of line, rhythm, meter, and sometimes rhyme.
Twentieth-century poets tend to create new forms, but these forms often arise from modifying or shifting older forms. Consider other differences you may experience in reading these poems. During the centuries since Sappho, at least in the Western traditions, we can hear women poets lament the lack of critical appreciation their efforts receive. The name of wit only by finding fault. True judges might condemn their want of wit, And all might say their by a woman writ.