1. Lyric Poetry

2. Description
This lesson introduces the meaning and the different kinds of Lyric Poetry. It will help the students to understand the meaning on how to identify a selection using the different kinds of Lyric Poetry.

3. Objectives Define Lyric Poetry
Identify the different Kinds of Lyric Poetry
Appreciate Lyric Poetry as an Art
Familiarize the kinds of Lyric Poetry used

4. Lyric Poetry
Lyric Poetry consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now commonly referred to as the words to a song. Lyric poetry does not tell a story which portrays characters and actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feeling, state of mind, and perceptions.

5. Kinds of Lyric Poetry Elegy
Is a poem, song or other work of art composed as a lament for someone who has died. An example of an elegy is the “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman.

6. Kinds of Lyric Poetry Ode
Is a lyric poem addressed to a particular subject, typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form of excessive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion. An example of an Ode is the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats

7. Kinds of Lyric Poetry Sonnet
Is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme. An example of a Sonnet is the “When I consider How my Light is Spent” by John Milton.

8. Kinds of Sonnet There are two kinds of Sonnets:
>The Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet
>The English or Shakespearean Sonnet

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