Poetic Juxtaposition

Under the time-honored "poetic juxtaposition" rule, articles (a, an, the) are dropped when two related entities are connected by a conjunction or preposition:

"left to right"
"father to son"
"mother and daughter"
etc....

Does the same rule apply when 3 or more entities are involved? Could these:

"The tradition was passed from grandfather to father to son."
"Grandmother, mother, daughter and granddaughter showed up at the party."
be as correct as:

"The tradition was passed from THE grandfather to THE father to THE son."
"THE Grandmother, THE mother, THE daughter and THE granddaughter showed up at the party."
?