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

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lyric poetry

Early Greeks distinguished between lyric and choric poetry.

Lyric was the expression of emotion of a single singer accompanied by a lyre.

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characteristically

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

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

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pastoral• Traditionally, a poem about shepherds.

• Modern usage, any poem about rural people or settings.

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etymologyfrom Latin

• Pastor shepherd

• Pasture "to feed, graze"

• Repast re- "repeatedly" + "to graze"

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contrast

• simple modes of life

• natural man

• country and rural life

• complex modes of life

• cultivated man

• life of the town and the city

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the Greek pastorals

existed in 3 forms:

1. Eclogue

2. Monologue, often the PLAINT of a lovesick or forlorn lover.

3. Elegy or Lament

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modern criticism

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

William Empson

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carpe diem

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“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