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	Poetry & Song: A Poet's Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The narrative poem, in other words, tells a story, and though it may employ image and sonic devices and possess a distinct tone, its primary concern is on what happened, to whom, when, where, why, and to what resolution.
		Some lyric poets have responded by saying that lyric poetry is a high art form, whereas narrative, along with concerns for meaning and reason, are the obsessions of a middle-class mentality fundamentally inhospitable to serious artistic expression and innovation.
		Lyric poems may isolate moments of intense feeling or rhapsodic subjectivity, but those moments are always embedded in a narrative context.
	www.hu.mtu.edu /poemandsong/perspective/poet.html (928 words)

	Archaic Greek Lyric
		Lyric monody names that form of lyric composed for a single performer to either sing or read aloud for the pleasure of another or others (including divinities), on mostly secular occasions such as symposia or private invocations that might be erotically charged.
		Choral lyric refers to poems composed to be sung by a chorus, on sacred (i.e.
		Lyrics were generally composed in one of two meters: the elegiac couplet, based on the Homeric hexameter, or the iambic in a six beat verse, called the trimeter.
	academic.reed.edu /humanities/110Tech/lyric.html (446 words)

	lyric
		Most lyrics have a single "speaker" who is addressing the poem to a listener or listeners, or perhaps to himself or herself.
		Some poems work on the assumption that the speaker is the poet, whereas others create a speaker quite different from the poet in age, temperament, gender, etc. In general, unless there are textual clues to the contrary, it is considered legitimate to use biographical data about the poet in characterizing the speaker.
		Poems are thought of as spoken to addressees, ranging from a single individual (such as a lover or God) to an entire nation or to the world.
	www.psu.edu /courses/cmlit/cmlit100_tob/exercises/lyric.htm (1537 words)

	The Greek Lyric Poets, U. of Saskatchewan
		In this rather simplified overview the Age of Lyric is presented as the period when the common individual — generally ignored in Homeric epic — first finds a voice, a sign of the waning dominance of the aristocracy in the more complex social and political structures of the emergent polis.
		The poems are called lyric poems because many of them — those, e.g., of Sappho, Alcaeus, and Ibycus — were intended to be sung to the lyre.
		His poems are valuable for the evidence they present of growing dissatisfaction with the gods of the mythopoetic tradition: with the rise of the polis and its more complex social and political structures, the solipsistic, timê -obsessed gods of Homer and Hesiod begin to be seen as problematic.
	homepage.usask.ca /~jrp638/CourseNotes/LyricPoets.html (2214 words)

	Reading Lyric Poetry
		We also know how to recognize a lyric poem when we see one (more important than we might at first think), as well as how, in general, we are expected to read it.
		In these and several other ways, lyric poems resemble two other kinds of "texts" with which we are quite familiar: ninety-second popular songs and fifteen-second television commercials.
		Both of these conventions of the nineteenth century lyric-- emphasis on everyday events and on a "story" that exists mostly for the feelings it expresses--may be seen operating in a great many commercials and popular songs today (think of any Country and Western song).
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/cs6/read_lyr.html (696 words)

	Douglas Barbour: LYRIC/ANTI-LYRIC
		However, whether or not we perceive the person in the poem as a fixed or constantly shifting entity, it is possible to see the meditative poem, which Johnson associates with the Romantics through to Eliot and his inheritors, as having changed the grounds by which "lyric" was judged.
		In his essay on the contemporary Canadian Long Poem, Robert Kroetsch re/calls a poem whose lyric intensities seldom fail to impress the reader/listener, and whose affinities to the passionate lyrics of the greatest woman poet of Greece are not hard to trace.
		Many of these gestures could be defined as "lyrical," of course, but their appearance, here, in the midst of a series of fragmented moments of perception and insight, in the midst that is of a continuing serial narrative of enunciation, makes them something else as well.
	www.dgdclynx.plus.com /lynx/lynx84.html (4954 words)

	lyric
		A lyric poem often presents a speaker who expresses his or her state of mind or thought processes.
		Sonnets, odes, and elegies are all lyric poems.
		Originally, a lyric was a song sung to a lyre, and song texts are still called lyrics.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0038730.html (277 words)

	Poetry, Poesy, Lyricism...and other such matters
		Lyric poetry goes back at least as far as Classical Greece, where it was often composed to be recited to the sounds of the lyre, flute, or other instrument.
		A lyric poem is not intended to impress you with its erudition or cleverness, so you generally won't find an elaborate construction of intellectual or poetic conceits.
		A lyric poem may be an emotional response to an event or occasion; perhaps the poem describes a passionate moment.
	www.lyricalworks.com /poetry/poetry.htm (487 words)

	Lyric versus Narrative
		Lyrics are poems whose narratives have been pared down to emphazise other elements, such as imagery or sound patterns.
		Lyric, as its names implies, is also derived from song: the Middle English poem "Summer is icumen in" is a good example of a lyric poem that is also a song (see Vendler 11).
		Since lyric poems about private life are not logically separate from longer poems such as epic, the larger narrative patterns that tend to be hidden or nearly lost in lyric can also help us understand lyric poems.
	virtual.park.uga.edu /eng3k/fall01/materials/lyric.htm (1585 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Eros and the Lyric Imagination: Poems of Love
		Eros is often the fuel of the lyric imagination, which chooses to use words, sentences, musical structures of language to re/member the beloved, to enter that inexhaustible source of--not uniquely "carnal"--knowledge which is another person's body and mind.
		I've preferred to choose poems in which love is a presence, not a pursuit: W.H. Auden's meditation on the timelessness attendant on the erotic moment; May Swenson's delicious limning of gratified desire.
		Jane Cooper's lyric and June Jordan's dramatic monologue both exemplify that, perhaps especially in love, "the personal is political": we love and are loved in our quotidian complexities, or not at all.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/17143 (231 words)

	TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Quite the opposite, Nedic emphasised the aesthetic side of the lyric poem, using the example of Ilic's lyric poems; even the feelings which the poet expresses, Nedic stressed, are not commonplace, rather such poetry was an expression of a "feeling for the Beautiful"; poetic emotion is by nature "artistic emotion".
		Not even in his first books Poems of Silence (1952) and Ballads about Evening (1955) did he place the readership or critics in doubt: whether he was writing in enjambment or in free verse, the traditional lyric poems is recognisable.
		On one hand, he is a lyric poet inclined toward generalisation and abstractness, and on the other he returns to his western Serbian homeland, to its landscapes, to its past, and to its daily life, which no one has put into poetry like he has till now (selected poems Bread and Salt, 1985).
	suc.suc.org /culture/history/Hist_Serb_Culture/chr/New_Literature.html (8775 words)

	Lyric poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that does not attempt to tell a story, as do epic poetry and dramatic poetry, but is of a more personal nature instead.
		Although lyric poetry has a long and close association with love, and European lyric poetry in the vernacular arose with the courtly love tradition, it is not exclusively love poetry.
		Although arguably the most popular form of lyric poetry in the Western tradition is the 14-line sonnet, either in its Petrarchan or its Shakespearean form, lyric poetry appears in a bewildering variety of forms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lyric_poem (826 words)

	Songwriting Surveys - What do you think are the differences between a poem and a song lyric?
		The lyrics and the music must agree rhythmically and must agree in direction (up or down), that is the difference between a song lyric and a poem.
		THAT wasn't a poem!" I would venture to say that at one time, the words were completely interchangeable, as I have heard the epic "The Illiad and the Odyssy" referred to as both a lyric AND as a poem.
		The difference between lyrics and poems is in the activities we associate with these texts and not in the texts themselves.
	www.musesmuse.com /poem-vs-lyric.html (3932 words)

	A Review of Helen Vendler's "Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction". (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lyric speakers are being given a distinct social identity, "so that we may say, 'This is a poem spoken by an African-American,' or 'The speaker is a mother who address her sister,' or 'This is a gay love poem spoken by one man to another,' or 'This is a poem spoken in Hispanic dialect'" (p.
		The lyric can indeed isolate particular social parameters for consideration, she argues, but even so, identity is not one-dimensional, and in the lyric, these social parameters must also be subjected to the aesthetic demands of both genre and text.
		In order for a poem to be interesting, she reminds us, "the author must critique or reinvent the social stereotype" (222), and in this critique and reinvention, the more general concerns of the lyric with typicality and our common inner life often reemerge.
	oregonstate.edu /versif/backissues/vol1/reviews/cureton.html (7819 words)

	Edward Byrne: "The Transformative Lyric: Gregory Orr's 'The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems,' 'Poetry as Survival,' ...
		The Human culture "invented" or evolved the personal lyric as a means of helping individuals survive the existential crises represented by extremities of subjectivity and also by such outer circumstances as poverty, suffering, pain, illness, violence, or loss of a loved one.
		The poet, through the use of personal lyric, employs the self to dramatize situations involving either individual or cultural trauma, externalizing the subjective, and links to his or her readers through the shared experience represented by the images, actions, and symbols on the page.
		However, in addition to using the subjectivity of lyric poems as a means to survive personal trauma and initiate healing, Orr's lyrical work has at times been instrumental in examining larger social issues by placing the disorder and drama of such instances into the ordering power of the poetic line.
	www.valpo.edu /english/vpr/byrnerevieworr.html (2400 words)

	On The Lyric As Experimental Possibility
		However, the lyric does not necessarily have a transcendent, unified subject as one of its basic characteristics, and various lyrics and hybrid forms of lyric have already abandoned this notion of the subject.
		Yet it might be argued that the lyric has become a repressed mode of discourse in a avant garde context in which the "poem with history" has been seen often as a necessary corrective to many troubling uses of lyric.
		In such a context, it's important to note that lyric's concern with the "emotional" does not have to be understood by definition as a displacement of the objective material conditions of one's circumstances onto an often hysterical subjectivity.
	wings.buffalo.edu /epc/authors/wallace/lyric.html (2588 words)

	Schimanski - The “Lyric Pastoral”: A Natural Genre?
		My fascination for the "Lyric Pastoral" (whatever that is) begins with a gesture by Jacques Derrida, at the very beginning of his essay "La loi du genre", `The Law of Genre' from 1980[1].
		Neither of these poems are very interesting, and the same can be said of the rest of the two volume collection, which is full of different pastorals and lyrics: though no other such "lyric pastorals".
		This fatal misunderstanding both involves pretending that Plato identified this mode with the Greek lyric - a poem to be sung to a lyre - and pretending that the modern lyric involves a mode of representation of the world, Plato's main concern.
	www.hum.uit.no /a/schimanski/artikler/lyrpast.htm (4500 words)

	Lyric Poems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		We borrow the Greek term, "lyric," to describe a genre of poems that usually are short, and usually are meant to be sung or recited aloud, sometimes to the accompaniment of musical instruments (viz., the lyre or harp, but also various medieval stringed instruments intended to be plucked or bowed).
		Interpretation of lyrics usually pays great attention to the interplay of sound and sense, noting patterns which use sound to reinforce or undercut the sense of what the poem is saying.
		Nevertheless, Eliot also believed that lyrics were not expressions of personality, but rather an "escape from personality," a thesis which may work better for some poems, and some poets, than others, but which the interpreter always should keep in mind as a possibility before attributing any lyric directly to its author's personal opinions.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng240/lyric_poems.htm (373 words)

	The Plight of the Modern Lyric Poet
		Such poems are called ‘poems of witness.’ Their central purpose is to testify to the catastrophic consequences which result from choices which governments and state institutions make, often without thought of those consequences.
		Poems of witness testify to the actual – not the imagined – results of war, imprisonment, forced exile, concentration camps, political repression, torture, forced labor, racial or religious repression.
		Poems of witness tell us that, as the novelist Saul Bellow once wrote, “suffering is merely terrible.” They tell us that we must pay attention to suffering, and not merely escape into the Prado of art and the imagination, as Heaney attempted to do.
	www.uvm.edu /~sgutman/The_Plight_of_the_Modern_Lyric_Poet.html (2160 words)

	Poetry X » Articles » "The Lyric Temper" by Jared Carter
		He is writing about lyric poetry, of course, and about those special moments that may come upon us at any age or at any time, but which become more recognizable to the poet as he or she grows older, and more experienced and knowledgeable—although they are also becoming, in actuarial terms, more rare.
		We are speaking, then, of neither comedy or tragedy, nor their dramatic manifestations in verse, but of the lyric temper in poetry, and of the manner in which the poem is its abode—just as the moth or butterfly, as it seeks to gather up the pollen, finds its momentary resting place in the flower.
		Many is the lyric poet who, having dined the summer long on the ambrosia of the imagination, will eventually be forced by sheer circumstance to drop away from the hive.
	articles.poetryx.com /57 (1332 words)

	Lyric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Reading Greek Lyric poetry is a tantalizing exercize, since the little which has survived often exists only in fragments.
		Sappho 16 This poem opens with a priamel, a literary device in which a number of alternatives are listed as foils which are rejected in favor of the final element.
		In Greek lyric, transitions from one topic to another often seem abrupt and unmotivated (the poet Pindar compares himself to a bee flitting from blossom to blossom).
	www.cofc.edu /~fennoj/GrekCiv/Lyric.htm (1269 words)

	Lesson Plan: Writing Lyric Poetry
		Poem" I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordworth, "I Hear an Army" by James Joyce, and " The Sky is Low" by Emily Dickinson, "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman, "Women" by Alice Walker, "maggie and milly and molly and may" by E.E. Cumming, "Dream Deferred"and "Dreams" by Langston Hughes.
		Extension: In Joyce's poem the speaker seems to be describing a nightmare caused by his great despair.
		Some critics comment on the poem that it presents a image of America that America would like to believe true-an image of proud and healthy and individualists engaged in productive and happy labor, which implies that Whitman's image may not be true.
	www.schoollink.org /csd/pages/engl/lyricpoe.html (1755 words)

	Jacket 28 - October 2005 - rob mclennan reviews "Changing on the Fly, The Best Lyric Poems of George Bowering"
		A fourteen part poem, three stanzas each, it rewrites the sonnet as a long poem, with each part including a consecutive line of the Keats classic, “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” written in January, 1818.
		Now I suppose that once a long poem such as Allophanes is in book form, one can move around in it as a reader; but the main excitement (of the senses, mind) come from the moving line by line.
		As soon as you start expression yourself in a poem, the resources of the whole language, and the response of the reader are both infibulated.
	jacketmagazine.com /28/bow-mclenn.html (2514 words)

	Reading Lyric Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This guide to reading lyric poetry, intended as a short reminder of some basic strategies for studying lyric poetry, is supplied as a supplement to the specific questions for each assignment.
		Time limits may prevent you from reading every poem with this kind of scrutiny, but pick out a few poems from each day’s selection and give them repeated readings of this sort.
		Although sonnets and other lyric poems are short, a good poem contains more than can be noticed in a single reading.
	www2.english.uiuc.edu /209/reading_lyric_poetry.htm (493 words)

	Lynch, Literary Terms — Lyric Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lyric poetry — which takes its name from songs accompanied by the lyre — is distinguished from
		Although the boundaries are flexible, most lyric poems are fairly short, and are often personal.
		Three question marks mean I have to write more on the subject.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Terms/lyric.html (55 words)

	Amazon.ca: Lyric Poems: Books: John Keats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		They are arranged chronologically (the best are not at the beginning) and illustrate his growth as a poet.
		Lyric Poems is a small book containig several beautiful writings about the world.
		There are a few poems I didn't care for, but don't let that stop you from purchasing this book.
	www.amazon.ca /Lyric-Poems-John-Keats/dp/0486268713 (668 words)

	Introduction to Keats
		Most of his major poems were written between his twenty-third and twenty-fourth years, and all his poems were written by his twenty-fifth year.
		His synaesthetic imagery performs two major functions in his poems: it is part of their sensual effect, and the combining of senses normally experienced as separate suggests an underlying unity of dissimilar happenings, the oneness of all forms of life.
		Keats's poems have drawn artists and illustrators, particularly from the 1840's through the 1930s.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/cs6/keats.html (1533 words)

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