Lyric poetry

“Poetry, once a preeminent form of entertainment, has long since receded to the far, dusty corners of popular culture” (Giggs). Music and poetry have forever been connected. They follow the same poetic devices because music is based on poetry. Over time, poetry has become a lesser-appreciated art form because of the popularity of music. Music has evolved, while poetry has been fairly stagnant for a long time. With the use of metaphors, free verses, assonances, and its cultural influences, the…

Edith Irene Södergran is undisputedly a pioneer of modernist poetry and feminist thought in Finland-Swedish literature, with the introduction of central European styles and techniques being introduced into Scandinavian literature being accredited almost entirely to her. Her emphasis on duality between the body and the mind, the unapologetic feminist motives and ability to incorporate modernist techniques into her poetry have influenced many writes in both the Swedish speaking community of…

publish their work during the early 1990s. His works have been published in numerous Indian and International journals, including Poetry Review London, Rattapallax, Lyric Poetry Review, Kavya Bharti and Indian Literature his poems have also appeared in German translation in Die Zeit, Akzente, Wesoewbest and Art & Thought. He is the author of four collection of poetry, has translated the Marathi poet Vasant Abaji Dahake, Co-translated the German novelist and essayist Ilija Troja now, and edited…

Music and Poetry are first cousins. Poetry is mostly private, quieter, and all around more reserved, while Music is the popular relative who strives to be heard by everyone and anyone. However, the intentions of both are identical; to invoke a certain feeling in the listener. A chorus and a stanza are one in the same, they both capture moments of the writer’s life or their emotions during a situation. Emily Dickinson, a 19th century poet, privately wrote almost 2,000 poems, all of which reflect…

Indian English poetry since 1970 has been characterized by failure, hopes and despair, immediacy and anger, search and struggle for identity, human relationship and growing sense of dissatisfaction. It is a kind of strong reaction against romanticism and idealism of its predecessors. It not only tries to establish individuality and reconceptualise values but also tries to redefine culture. Poetry consists of verbal and contextual features, choice of words (diction), syntactic and semantic…

situations similar to hers, such as; having to move on from a break up when your heart doesn’t want to and staying strong in knowing it was a reason the relationship ended in the first place, so don’t look back. The poet, Adele, uses various elements of poetry to create a theme of love. Setting is the time and place where a scene occurs. Adele’s character as a whole is a soulful…

in a South African country where around half a million people died. This war began in 2003 and continued until 2010. Many people have tried to get the word about the dying country out to other countries and people who can help through the means of poetry, song, photography, and videos. All of these means of communicating have advantages and disadvantages to them, however the video communicated the information the best. The poem “Tears of Darfur,” was written by Mahnaz Badihian, an American…

Island. Growing up Kinnell was a very shy and introverted child who often turned to American literature and poetry to escape daily life (Poetry Foundation). Kinnell, who spent two years in the United States Navy then went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a Master’s degree from The University of Rochester. During the times of when he was most active writing poetry was during and after the civil rights movement in America. Kinnell was also part of many groups…

Eliot’s poetry breaks drastically with much of the other poetry written during these years. Like the war poets, he realized that the poetic idiom available to him was tired and had to be changed. Differently experiences needed different styles and uses of language His poetry was formally more experimental and innovative and intellectually more thoughtful. Further, Ronald Carter and John McRae quote Eliot: Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity,…

Lyric poetry presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet as opposed to poetry that tells a story or presents a witty observation. Indeed, "We Wear the Mask" is a lyric poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar that explores how in the late nineteenth century, African Americans could not publicly reveal their true feelings about whites' maltreatment without the risk of dangerous retaliation. Through paradox, metaphor, and apostrophe, the speaker ponders how oppressed black Americans are forced to hide…