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ZYNICA MARCOSO

Lyric Poetry
A Guide for Young Writers
Today's Discussion
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO;

• Identify the different kinds of lyric

poetry.
• Determine the emotions in a lyric
poetry

English 9
 PROMPT QUESTION

What is a lyric poetry?

Enumerate the kinds of lyric poetry.
Reading Lyric Poetry
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION

A lyric poetry was originally intended to be sung to the

accompaniment of a lyre, hence, the name is lyric. Today lyric
poetry refers to any poem that expresses the writer's personal
feelings and emotion.
There are different kinds of lyric poetry. The
more important kinds are the following.

• SONG
is intended to be sung.

EXAMPLES:
Auld Lund Syne; a Scottish song
Song to Celia; by Ben Johnson
Take down notes.
2. Elegy
IT HAS A DEATH AND MOURNING THEME.

Example: "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" by Thomas

Gray
"Break, Break, Break" by Alfred Lord Tennyson
 3. Ode
It is an addressed in an exalted manner to an
object or person
Examples:
"Ode to the West Wind" by; Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Ode to the Grecian Urn" by John Keats

Creative Writing 101 Presentation

 4. Sonnet
IT IS A POEM OF FOURTEEN LINES.

Examples: "Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer's Day"

by William Shakespeare
"How do I love thee?" Elizabeth Barett Browning
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 dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
5. Ballad
Is a simple tale told in simple verse, generally folk
songs handed down by oral tradition.

Example: "Lord Randal"

"The Two Corbies"
 6. Idyll

Is a descriptive poem of rural or pastoral character which

expresses the poet's feelings for his or her immediate
landscape.

Example: Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson

 Let's Practice what we learned...
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Sharing Insights:
Understanding

1. When is a person in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes?

2. What is the meaning of the line and trouble deaf heaven with
bootless cries?
Applying

3. What problem is spoken of in the first eight lines of the poem?

Do you have sometimes this problem?

4. What solution to the problem is spoken of in the last six lines

of the poem?
Analyzing

5. What message is expressed in the poem?

Evaluating

6. Do all friendships created lasting memories that

can make up for a person's adversities or setbacks
in life? Explain your answer.
 Let's apply what we learned...

An epitaph is a brief poem to be inscribed on a gravestone of a

deceased person. It may be serious, clever, humorous or
somber. Why let someone else have your last words? Write
your own epitaph by answering the worksheet on the next
slide.
Epita
phs
I. Identify the TONE of your epitaph. Do you want it to
be religious, funny, humble, scary, or something you
personally prefer. Write it on the blank.
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II. Identify the most significant things for which you
want to be remembered.
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III. Use the above list to write your epitaph. Write it on the grave.