Lyric Poems

Examples Help! 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

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:

  • "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
  • "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
  • "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.

 

Examples Help - 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 understanding of this subject.

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Lyric Poems

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