This PPT contains the brief and comprehensive presentation on the most important genre of literature i.e. (Poetry) Lyric and Sonnet. This video talks about the Lyric and Sonnet along with their origin, definition, features, types and examples.

1. Lyric
Sonnet
Origin
Definitions
Sub-categories/Types
Features
Examples
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Dr Sudhir Mathpati
(M.A.,B.Ed.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.,NET)
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Adarsh Mahavidyalaya, Omerga, Dist.
Osmanabad, MS

2. Lyric & Sonnet
Lyric
Origin:
The word Lyric is associated with a musical instrument called lyre , which is
called Lura in its original form in Greek.
Definition:
“Lyric is the name of short poem, usually divided into stanza forms and directly
expressing the poet’s own thoughts and sentiments.”- The Oxford Dictionary
“Lyric is any fairly short poem expressing the personal mood, feelings or
meditation of a single speaker.” - Chris Baldick

3. Lyric & Sonnet
Sub-categories of Lyric:
• Elegy: - Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)
• Ode: - John Keats’ Ode to a Grecian Urn (1819)
• Sonnet: - Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella (1591)
• Dramatic Monologue: - Robert Browning's My Last Duchess (1842)
•Occasional Verse:- Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion (1595)

4. Lyric & Sonnet
Features of Lyric:
 Lyric is usually short and personal.
 Lyric expresses the emotions and thoughts of the poet.
 Lyric is divided into a number of stanzas.
 Lyric is sung to the music of a guitar or a lyre.
 Lyric is different from the dramatic or narrative verse.
 In Lyric, the basic emphasis is given on feeling rather than thought..

5. Lyric & Sonnet
Examples:
 William Shakespeare’s Sonnet Number 18
 Edmund Waller’s Go Lovely Rose
 Emily Dickinson’s I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
 Elizabeth Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
 W. H. Auden’s When I Have Fears

6. Lyric & Sonnet
Sonnet
Origin:
 Francesco Petrarca - 14th Century Italian poet
The tern Sonnet derives from the Italian Sonetto which means ‘A little
sound’ or ‘Song’ or ‘Small Lyric.’
Definition:
“A sonnet is a one-stanza, 14-line poem, written in iambic pentameter.”
“Sonnet is a verse form of fourteen lines, usually of Iambic Pentameter
with an elaborate or complex rhyme scheme.”

7. Lyric & Sonnet
Types :
 Italian Sonnet :- Francesco Petrarca’s Vision
 English or Shakespearean Sonnet: William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 1
 Spenserian Sonnet: Edumund Spenser’s Amoretti
 Miltonic Sonnet:- John Milton’s Sonnet number 7- On His Being Arrived to
the Age of Twenty Three
 Terza Rima Sonnet, Modern Sonnets, Curtal Sonnet, etc.
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8. Lyric & Sonnet
 Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella (1591)
 Sir Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti (1595)
 William Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1609)
 Elizabeth Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
 W. H. Auden’s In Time of War (1939)
Examples:

9. Thank you !
Dr Sudhir Mathpati
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Adarsh Mahavidyalaya, Omerga, Dist.
Osmanabad, MS
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