TSL 3102

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
LYRICAL POEM

What is Lyrical Poem ?

The word lyric comes from the Latin lyricus"
meaning of or for the lyre. In lyric poetry, the mood
is musical and emotional.
Lyric Poetry consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an
ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the
poet.
Does not tell a story which portrays characters
and actions.

Addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own

feeling, state of mind, and perceptions.
Some of the best examples of lyric poetry are
sonnets.
The speaker in a Lyric poem always uses
first person.
Some other forms of Lyric poetry are Ode
and Elegy
http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/31-lyric-poetry.htm

I Felt A Funeral In My Brain- Emily Dickison

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amples-of-lyric-poetry.html
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a
Drum -Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My Mind was going numb -
And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space - began to toll,
As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange
Race Wrecked, solitary, here And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing - then -

SUMMARY
The speaker imagines that a funeral is
taking place inside her brain, and she can
feel the mourners pacing back and forth.
The mourners sit down, and the funeral
service begins. The drum-like beating of
the service makes her think her mind is
going numb.

SONNET 18-WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of
May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course
untrimmed.

SUMMARY
His sonnet is certainly the most famous in
the sequence of Shakespeares sonnets; it
may be the most famous lyric poem in
English.
The poem is about an his feeling and
thoughts on everlasting beauty of her
woman.

AMERICAN AUTHOR

Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 May 15,

1886).

Born inAmherst, Massachusetts, to a successful

family with strong community ties, she lived a
mostly introverted and reclusive life.

Most of her friendships were therefore carried out

by correspondence.

She was "very bright" and "an excellent scholar

and faithful in all school duties".

Dickinson was troubled from a young age by

the threaten of death, especially the deaths of
those who were close to her.

She became so melancholic that her parents

sent her to stay with family inBostonto
recover.

On June 16, 1874, while in Boston, Edward

Dickinson suffered a stroke and died. When the
simple funeral was held in the Homestead's
entrance hall, Emily stayed in her room with
the door cracked open. Neither did she attend
the memorial service on June 28.

A year later, on June 15, 1875,

Emily's mother also suffered a stroke,
which produced a partial
lateralparalysisand impaired
memory.

BRITISH AUTHOR

William Shakespeare(26 April 1564;

-23 April 1616).

AnEnglishpoetandplaywright.

Widely regarded as the greatest

writer in the English language.

Shakespeare's sonnetsare a
collection of 157sonnets, dealing
with themes such as the passage of
time, love, beauty and mortality.

Other sonnets express the speaker's

love for a young man, brood upon
loneliness, death, and the transience
of life.

One interpretation is that

Shakespeare's sonnets are in part
pasticheorparodyof the threecenturies-old tradition
ofPetrarchanlove sonnets.

SIMILARITIES
EMILY DICKINSON (AMERICAN) vs WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE (BRITISH)
1. Both writing were influenced by people who had
close relationship with them.
2. Regard the death as something tramautize.
3. Write based on their personal experiences that
happened at that era/moment.
4. Portraying their personal thoughts and emotion.
5. The poems are not telling about sequence of
event instead it evokes their own perception.