Lyric Poetry

• Lyric poetry is poetry that expresses a speaker’s

personal thoughts and feelings.
• Lyric poems are usually short and musical.
• This broad category covers many poetic types
and styles, including haikus, sonnets, free
verse and many others.
 The Stone - Elaine George
Alone in a meadow in the pouring rain
I find the stone that causes all my pain,
As I stumble through the fog in disbelief
I fall down upon my knees and sob in grief
 
The fog horn cries her mournful sound
As my heart falls down, beneath the ground
Crying out to God for mercy all in vain
To take away the stone that bears your name
Ode to Spring (By Thomas Gray)
“The untaught harmony of spring …
Still is the toiling hand of Care:
The panting herds repose:
Yet hark, how thro’ the peopled air
The busy murmur glows!
Some lightly o’er the current skim,
Some show their gaily-gilded trim
Quick-glancing to the sun.”
 5 Greatest examples of Epic Poem
Beowulf by Anonymous –
This is an Old English language
heroic epic poem of anonymous
authorship, dating as recorded in
the Nowell Codex manuscript
from between the 8th to the 11th
century and relates events
described as having occurred in
what is now Denmark and
Sweden.
Metamorphoses by Ovid - This is a narrative
poem in fifteen books that describes the creation
and history of the world.

  The Odyssey by Homer - The poem is, in

part, a sequel to Homer’s Iliad and mainly
centers on the Greek hero Odysseus and his long
journey home to Ithaca following the fall of
Troy.

Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous - This is an

epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia and is
The Iliad by Homer - oldest
extant work of literature in the
ancient Greek language, making
it the first work of European
literature.
 Ballad Poems
• Is a narrative poem that originally was set to music.
• Ballads were first created in medieval France, and
the word means “dancing song.”
• It also tells a stort like epic poems however ballads
are often based on a legend or folk tale.
• Most Ballads are written in 4-6 stanzas and has a
regular rhythms and rhyme schemes.
 “Paradise” by Coldplay

When she was just a girl

She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach so
She ran away in her sleep
And dreamed of
Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise, Para-para-
paradise
Every time she closed her eyes
 My life, -
How much more of it
remains?
The night is brief.
- Masaoka Shiki
Winter seclusion -
Listening, that evening,
To the rain in the mountain.
- Kobayashi Issa
Cinquain Form
•The 1st line is one word - the title of the poem. 
•The 2nd line - two adjectives that describe the title. 
•The 3rd line - three words that tell more about the subject (or
shows action - “ing”)
•The 4th line - four words that show emotions about the subject
of the poem (individual words or a phrase) 
•The 5th line is one word that is a synonym of the title or is very
similar to it.
Cinquain Form
Example:
Castle
Strong, beautiful
Imposing, protecting, watching
Symbolizes wealth and power
Fortress 
Nicky – Marie Hughes

Nicky is a Nurse
It's her chosen career
Children or Old folks
Kindness in abundance
Year after year