lyric poetry early greeks distinguished between lyric and choric poetry
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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. characteristically Brief and subjective, marked by imagination, melody and emotion, creating a single, unified impression. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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.
MANNER rather than FORMExamples of lyric forms include hymns, sonnets, songs, ballads, odes, elegies, and more.
pastoral• Traditionally, a poem about shepherds.
• Modern usage, any poem about rural people or settings.
etymologyfrom Latin
• Pastor shepherd
• Pasture "to feed, graze"
• Repast re- "repeatedly" + "to graze"
contrast
• simple modes of life
• natural man
• country and rural life
• complex modes of life
• cultivated man
• life of the town and the city
the Greek pastorals
existed in 3 forms:
1. Eclogue
2. Monologue, often the PLAINT of a lovesick or forlorn lover.
3. Elegy or Lament
modern criticism
A device for INVERSION, a means of “putting the complex into the simple” –of expressing complex ideas through simple personages.
William Empson
carpe diem
“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”
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