Historical context of Lyric poetry Elements of poetry Characteristics Differences between poetry and narrative Examples of poets

2. • Expression – human
emotions, feelings
POEM
Made to be sang
music
Lyric Greek :“Lyre”

3. History > VII – V a.C
Pre Homeric Age
Monarchy allowed – Men free expression

5. Modern lyric poems -
usually not sung
musical qualities:
rhythm, rhyme, alliteration,
and onomatopoeia
Poet’s exterior reality
Inspiration
Dialogue between I and You.
Lyric author’s manifestation.

6. Characteristics
- Brevity
- Variety – composition
(poet’s intentions, free)
- Emotive
- Esthetic
- Not an story’s
narration – based
on emotions
- Not dinamic
emotions’ intensity
Different
from
Narrative

7. ELEGY: mourning – reflexion of
somobody’s death.
ODE: thoughful poem to pay
homenage.
SONET: love poem / lover’s
suffering
HYMN: expresses patriotic,
religious feelings
EPISTLE: philosophical, moral
topics in form of a letter.
SATIRE: mocking tone to condemn
individual or collective bad vices.
SONG: variable extension

8. • 18th century
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats
Lord Byron
POETS
• 16th century
Willliam Shakespeare
Sir Philip Sidney
• 17th century
John Donne
John Milton

9. She walks in Beauty, by: George Gordon (Lord) Byron
(1788-1824)
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and
bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day
denies.
One shade the more, one ray the
less,
Had half impair'd the nameless
grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet
express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-
place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that
brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that
glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

10. Analisys
Lyric Speaker: Man to a Woman
Motive: Woman’s qualities
Mood: Admiration
Topic: Woman personifies the pure beauty.
Figures of speach:
Simill: “like the night of cloudless climes and stary nights”.
Metaphore: “And all that’s best of dark
And night”.
Poem Short Analysis

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