2. Lyric Poetry
Lyric poetry is generally short and
expresses deep personal feelings.
Lyric poems may be sung or
accompanied by music, but may
not. Lyrics often have a refrain or a
line/ lines that are repeated
throughout the poem.
4. 1. Ode
An ode is a form of poetry such as
sonnet or elegy. Ode is a literary
technique that is lyrical in nature, but
not very lengthy. You have often read
odes in which poets praise people,
natural scenes, and abstract ideas.
Ode is derived from a Greek word
aeidein, which means to chant or sing.
5. Types of Ode
A.Pindar Ode
- This ode was named after an ancient
Greek poet, Pindar, who began writing
choral poems that were meant to be
sung at public events. It contains three
triads; strophe, antistrophe, and final
stanza as epode, with irregular rhyme
patterns and lengths of lines.
6. Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections
of Early Childhood (By William Wordsworth)
• “There was a time when meadow, grove, and
stream,
The earth, and every common sight
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore; —”
• This is a perfect example of an English Pindaric ode.
Just observe the use of different types of meters in
each stanza, which have made it easier to read, and
made flexible with simple rhyme scheme of ababac.
7. B. Horatian Ode
•The name of this ode was taken
from the Latin poet, Horace. Unlike
heroic odes of Pindar, Horatian ode
is informal, meditative and
intimate. These odes dwelled upon
interesting subject matters that
were simple and were pleasing to
8. Ode to the Confederate Dead (By Allen Tate)
“Row after row with strict impunity
The headstones yield their names to the
element,
The wind whirrs without recollection;
In the riven troughs the splayed leaves
Pile up, of nature the casual sacramen
To the seasonal eternity of death …”
-This is an example of Horatian ode, which presents
a consistent rhyme scheme, less ceremonious, less
formal, more tranquil, and better suited for
reading.
9. C. Irregular Ode
This type of ode is without any
formal rhyme scheme, and
structure such as the Pindaric ode.
Hence, the poet has great freedom
and flexibility to try any types of
concepts and moods. William
Wordsworth and John Keats were
such poets who extensively wrote
irregular odes, taking advantage of
this form.
10. Ode to the West Wind (By Percy Bysshe Shelley)
“Scatter, as from an unextinguish’d hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawaken’d earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
•This presents an example of irregular ode,
which employs neither three parts, nor four
line stanzas like a Horatian ode. Nevertheless,
each stanza of ode is distinct from the other
stanzas in rhyme scheme, pattern and length.
11. 2. Elegy
•Elegy is a form of literature
that can be defined as a poem
or song in the form of elegiac
couplets, written in honor of
someone deceased. It typically
laments or mourns the death
of the individual.
12. •In Memory of W. B. Yeats (By W. H.
Auden)
•“With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress;
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.”
13. 3. Sonnet
A sonnet is a 14- line poem
containing a specific meter or
rhyme scheme. Each line of a
sonnet is written in iambic
pentameter , a meter made up of 5
sets of unstressed – stressed
syllable blocks, called iambs.
14. A. PetrarchanSonnet/ Italian
Sonnet
•Named after Francesco Petrarca who
popularized the form in the 14th
century.
•This sonnet begins with an eight(8)-
line octave following a rhyme scheme
of ABBAABBA, CDECDE.
15. The New Colossus BY EMMA LAZARUS
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
16. B. Shakespearean Sonnet/
English Sonnet
•Consist of three
quatrains and a couplet.
This structure creates a
rhymes scheme ABAB
CDCD EFEF GG.
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19. C Spenserian Sonnet
•Named after Edmund Spencer
• A sonnet comprising three
Quatrains with the latter rhyme
part being carried over from
one quatrain to the next, and a
concluding couplet, therefore
comprising a rhyme scheme of
ABAB BCBC CDCD EE
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21. D. Miltonic Sonnet
•Converts the traditional Petrarchan
sonnet form by the use of Enjambment.
•Miltonic is came from the name John
Milton.
•Milton took the sonnet out of the
category of “love poems” and brought it
into the world of politics and social
issues.
•Rhyme scheme is ABBAABBACDECDE
22. “ On His Blindness” John Milton
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait."
23. 4. Idyll
• Idyll is a short poem that creates a
story and paints a picture in everyday
life, while making things that at first
seem simple much more important.
•In the world that always seems to be
moving fast, this type of poem is great
because it helps the poet and the
reader to appreciate the small things
in life.
24. Siegfried Sassoon - 1886-1967
In the grey summer garden I shall find you
With day-break and the morning hills behind you.
There will be rain-wet roses; stir of wings;
And down the wood a thrush that wakes and sings.
Not from the past you'll come, but from that deep
Where beauty murmurs to the soul asleep:
And I shall know the sense of life re-born
From dreams into the mystery of morn
Where gloom and brightness meet. And standing
there
Till that calm song is done, at last we'll share
The league-spread, quiring symphonies that are
Joy in the world, and peace, and dawn’s one star.
25. 5. Song
• has a particular melodious
quality.
•A Poem written to be sung or
chanted with or without
musical accompaniment.
26. NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS’ SONG BE THE
SAME LYRICS (Robert Frost)
He would declare and could himself believe
That the birds there in all the garden round
From having heard the daylong voice of Eve
Had added to their own an oversound,
Her tone of meaning but without the words.
Admittedly an eloquence so soft
Could only have had an influence on birds
When call or laughter carried it aloft.
Be that as may be, she was in their song.
27. 6. Simple Lyric
•Simple lyric poetry is a poem
that expresses the thoughts
and feelings of the poet.
•A simple way of expressing the
writers emotions.
•Includes all those lyric that
don’t belong the other types.
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29. Characteristic of a Lyric Poem
•Expression of personal feelings or thoughts.
•Musical quality and the desire to express a
specific emotion or mood.
•Short
•Expresses emotions tend to lend toward the
extremes in life, such love, death and loss.
•Other emotions can be express, but the
emotion is always vey intense.
