This document discusses different types of lyrical poetry including lyrics, sonnets, odes, and elegies. Lyrical poetry records the poet's personal experiences and feelings. Lyrics are short poems that express spontaneous emotion inspired by something immediate, while sonnets are 14 lines written in iambic pentameter discussing one idea. Odes describe or celebrate events with irregular meter, and elegies lament death, either plainly or through the metaphor of a pastoral death. The document provides examples of different forms of lyrical poetry.

2. personal method of
writing poetry

3. personal Poetry
or
Lyrical Poetry

4. This kind of
poetry is a direct
record of
personal
experience and
feelings of the
poet.

5. The poet speaks
in his own voice

6. Kinds of Lyrical Poetry:
• Lyrics
•Sonnets
•Odes
•Elegy

7. Lyrics are short
poems on any
subject that record
an outburst of
feeling inspired by
something
immediate

8. • Lyrics don’t have
a specific
structure
• They are the
spontaneity of
the emotion
expressed

9. Sonnets :
are a type of
lyrical poetry but
are written in a
specific form

10. The sonnet is 14
lines of iambic
pentameter that
discuss one idea

11. Iambic pentameter:
a line of verse that
has five syllables
unstressed syllable
followed by a
stressed syllable

12. Kinds of Sonnets
Italian sonnet English Sonnet
• Italian sonnets are • The English
consist of 2 parts: sonnet is also
• Part 1 : is called an known as the
octave and consists Shakespearian
of 8 lines sonnet and
• Part 2: is called a consist of 3
sestet and consist of quatrains and a
6 lines couplet

15. Odes: are lyrical poems
with irregular meter
that describe or
celebrate a special
event

16. Odes can be short
or long but
usually tend to be
lengthy

17. John Keats’ Odes
are widely read in
English literature for
example:
an Ode to a
Nightingale and
Ode to Autumn

18. Elegy:
is a lyrical poem that
lament the death of
someone.
( a death song)

19. 2 Kinds of Elegies
Plain Elegy Pastoral Elegy
• is a poem that • is also a lament but in
expresses the fiction. The poem
feelings of grief on describe the life of the
the death of dead person as a
shepherd or a
someone
shepherdess in a
• For example: Ben country life
Johnson’s On My • Example: Shelly’s
Son Adonais

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