Lyrics in english literature.

2. Presented By:
•Areeba Aftab
•Sahiba Rajput
•Yusra Naeem
•Zahra Gul

3.  The word “lyric” comes from the Latin word
“lyricus" meaning “of the lyre”.
 Lyric is a type of poetry which conveys intense
feelings or profound thoughts.
 Lyrics are always expressive.
 Mood of lyrical poems is musical and emotional.
They are often sung while being accompanied
by a musical instrument.
 According to Robert Frost:
“Poetry is when an emotion has found thought
and when the thought has found words.”

4.  SONNET
This lyric poem follows a strict rhythmic
scheme and revolves around the subjects
of love; and lover's suffering and hope.
 ODE
Ode is a long lyric poem with series of
subjects written in elevated style.
 ELEGY
Elegy is a formal lament for death of a
person.

5.  The time period of Elizabethan age is from
1558 to 1603.
 It is the golden age for “lyrics”
 “Age of Shakespeare”
 the most popular themes were Love, religion
and nature.
 The lyrics are in every mood, sometimes
even mocking and melancholy. But the
common mood is gay and merry.

6.  important Elizabethan poets are Edmund
Spenser, Philip Sidney, Walter and
Christopher Marlow. Elizabethan songs
and lyrics were published in collections.
Greene, Lodge, Drayton, Campion,
Daniel, Dyer etc.

7.  This genre was meant to be simple and short and
easily absorbable while the poets of Victorian era
found it complex and difficult to authentically
express and understand.
 The poets began to cherish the writers of the
romantic period for their ability to reach the
genuineness of lyrical voice and used the works of
poets such as Wordsworth for inspiration.
 As they were unable to cover the originality of the
lyric, Victorians poets often mixed up their genres,
so the lyric became merged with other forms such
as the dramatic monologue or “dramatic lyric”.

8.  It is one of the most well-known poems from
the Victorian era.
 Includes a variety of poetic forms such as
the lyrics, lyrical ballad and a form of the
dramatic monologue.
 It is aesthetically pleasing and contains a
melodic rhythm that puts the poem in lyrical
format.

9.  In the beginning, English poets such as A. E.
Housman, Walter de la Mare, and Edmund
Blunden used the traditional lyric form.
 the modern poets like T.S Eliot, Ezra Pound and
William Carlos William rejected the traditional
style of lyric poems.
 “free verse”
 T.S. ELIOT: “It is a logic of emotions that
does not need to be confined to traditional
forms.”

10.  Modern poets wrote poems on diverse variety
of subjects.
 They wrote about the appreciation of nature.
 on the subject of religion and mysticism.
 Marked with note of humanitarianism and
democratic feeling.
 destructive aspects of the wars on humans.
 In the late 20th century, the lyrical poetry
focused more on domestic life and love issues

11.  In Elizabethan period, lyrics flourished like
other genres of Literature.
 The melancholic lyrics from Elizabethan
period then refined and attained a polished
form in the Victorian era.
 Later, in the Modern times, it became free-
versed breaking all the traditional norms and
rules of Lyrical poetry.
 Lyric is a dominant form of poetry which
kept an assertive formation in all times.

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