Lyric poetry expresses the personal thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. It originated as songs accompanied by a lyre in ancient Greece. While no longer set to music, lyric poems still have musical qualities. Some common types are odes, elegies, and sonnets. Lyric poetry uses figurative language, sound devices, and imagery to create musical effects. William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who believed in social justice and spent his childhood in the countryside, influencing his poetry.