Lyric:
A
short poem expressing personal or subjective thoughts and feelings of a single
speaker. It is identical to a song sung with a lyre. Its main features are:
(1) It is shorter than epic or mock-epic or
metrical romance.
(2) A single speaker speaks.
(3) It expresses personal thoughts and
feelings.
(4) It possesses the rhythm of a song.
(5) Its diction is lucid and soft-sounding.
Elegy,
sonnet, ode, dramatic monologue, hymn and epithalamion ate different forms Of
the lyric. Shakespeare's sonnets, Donne's love poems, Marvell's "To His
Coy Mistress," Wordsworth's "Tintern
and "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," Arnold's "Dover
Beach" and Browning's dramatic monologues are a few examples of the famous
English lyrics.
Elegy:
A
lyric poem mourning for the death of an individual or lamenting over a tragic
event. The famous English elegies are Milton's "Lycidas," Shelley's
"Adonais," Tennyson's "In Memoriam," Arnold's
"Thyrsis" and Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard."
Pastoral Elegy:
An elegy which begins with an invocation to
the Muses followed by a procession of shepherds who mourn for the misfortune of
a fellow shepherd in a pastoral atmosphere. It usually ends in consolation.
"Thyrsis," "Adonais" and "Lycidas" are pastoral
elegies.
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