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What is the
definition of Lyric Poems?
How do you define Lyric Poems? What are Lyric Poems? The
definition of Lyric Poems is as follows:
English Grammar &
Terminology
Definition of Lyric Poems - a poetic device |
Definition: Lyric Poems such as a sonnet or an ode,
express the thoughts and feelings of the poet. Lyric
poems do not tell a story which portrays characters
and actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader
directly, portraying his or her own feelings, state
of mind, and perceptions.
Examples: Some Famous
English Authors and Poets of Lyric poems:
Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Donne, John Dryden,
William Blake
Robert Browning, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow,
Christina Rossetti, William Wordsworth & Alfred,
Lord Tennyson
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Definition of Lyric Poems
- a poetic device |
Examples of Lyric Poems & Poetry
Examples of Lyric
poems can be found by the most famous poets including
Shelley, Keats and Longfellow:
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"What men or
gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?"
Excerpt from Ode On A Grecian Urn by John Keats
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"If you can
fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! "
Excerpt from 'If' by Rudyard Kipling
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"Drive my
dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened Earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? "
Excerpt from Ode To The West Wind by Percy Bysshe
Shelley
Examples of
Lyric Poems
Examples Help! Use
of Lyric Poems in Poems & Poetry
Examples of Lyric Poems can
be found in many examples of the poem, poems or poetry. Famous
poets use this figure of speech to convey and emphasize unusual
and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the
mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment
to literary works.
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Figures of Speech - Lyric Poems
In Figurative Language we use words in such a way that they
differ somewhat from ordinary every-day speech and convey
meanings in a more vivid and impressive manner. Figures, like
Lyric Poems make speech more effective, they beautify and emphasize it
in Rhetoric which is the art of speaking and writing
effectively. Figures of speech such as Lyric Poems use word association
to convey emotion and mood often in a non-literal sense.
Examples Help! Using
Lyric Poems
Figures of
speech such as Lyric Poems adds adornment, beautifies, colors, elegant
variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exaggeration,
exclamation, flourish, floweriness, irony, lushness and
luxuriance to the English language. This page providing facts
and info about Figures of Speech will help with the
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