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lyric poetry Early Greeks distinguished between lyric and choric poetry.

lyric poetry Early Greeks distinguished between lyric and choric poetry. Lyric was the expression of emotion of a single singer accompanied by a lyre. characteristically Brief and subjective, marked by imagination, melody and emotion, creating a single, unified impression.

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lyric poetry Early Greeks distinguished between lyric and choric poetry.

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  1. lyric poetry Early Greeks distinguished between lyricand choric poetry. Lyric was the expression of emotion of a single singer accompanied by a lyre.

  2. characteristically Brief and subjective, marked by imagination, melody and emotion, creating a single, unified impression.

  3. MANNER rather than FORM Examples of lyric forms include hymns, sonnets, songs, ballads, odes, elegies, and more.

  4. pastoral • Traditionally, a poem about shepherds. • Modern usage, any poem about rural people or settings.

  5. etymology • from Latin • Pastor  shepherd • Pasture  "to feed, graze" • Repast  re- "repeatedly" + "to graze"

  6. simple modes of life natural man country and rural life complex modes of life cultivated man life of the town and the city contrast

  7. the Greek pastorals • existed in 3 forms: • Eclogue • Monologue, often the PLAINT of a lovesick or forlorn lover. • Elegy or Lament

  8. modern criticism A device for INVERSION, a means of “putting the complex into the simple” –of expressing complex ideas through simple personages. William Empson

  9. carpe diem

  10. “Tonight I will love you tonight Give me everything tonight For all we know we might not get tomorrow Let's do it tonight I will love you tonight Give me everything tonight For all we know we might not get tomorrow Lets do it tonight ” from “Give Me Everything” —Pitbull, NeYo and Nayer

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