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  2. Lyric poetry - Wikipedia

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    Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. [1] The term for both modern lyric poetry and modern song lyrics derives from a form of Ancient Greek literature , the Greek lyric , which was defined by its musical accompaniment, usually on an instrument known as ...

  3. Greek lyric - Wikipedia

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    Lyric poetry is, in short, poetry to be sung accompanied by music, traditionally a lyre. It is primarily associated with the early 7th to the early 5th centuries BC, sometimes called the " Lyric Age of Greece ", [ 1 ] but continued to be written into the Hellenistic and Imperial periods.

  4. Ode - Wikipedia

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    An ode (from Ancient Greek: ᾠδή, romanized: ōidḗ) is a type of lyric poetry, with its origins in Ancient Greece.Odes are elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.

  5. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    "A Dream" is a lyric poem that first appeared without a title in Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827. The narrator's "dream of joy departed" causes him to compare and contrast dream and "broken-hearted" reality. Its title was attached when it was published in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems in 1829.

  6. John Keats's 1819 odes - Wikipedia

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    The poem describes the narrator's opinions on melancholy and is addressed specifically to the reader, unlike the narrative of many of the other odes. [10] The lyric nature of the poem allows the poet to describe the onset of melancholy and then provides the reader with different methods of dealing with the emotions involved.

  7. List of epic poems - Wikipedia

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    Mlokhim-Bukh (Old Yiddish epic poem based on the Biblical Books of Kings) Book of Dede Korkut (Oghuz Turks) Le Morte d'Arthur (Middle English) Morgante (Italian) by Luigi Pulci (1485), with elements typical of the mock-heroic genre; The Wallace by Blind Harry (Scots chivalric poem) Troy Book by John Lydgate, about the Trojan war (Middle English)

  8. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, they act as non-verbal tools of poetic expression. A form of artistic choice, the poet's choice of punctuation is central to our understanding of poetic meaning because of its ability to influence prosody. The unorthodox use of punctuation increases the expressive complexity of poems, or may be used to align poetic metres.

  9. List of compositions by Edward Elgar - Wikipedia

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    symphony/cantata for chorus and orchestra, poem by Uhland, tr. Longfellow: Hugh Blair: Longfellow: Novello 26: 1894: Two part-songs: part-song: SSA acc. 2 violins and piano 1. "The Snow" 2. "Fly, Singing Bird" Mrs E. B. Fitton, Malvern [36] C. Alice Elgar: Novello 26.1: 1894 "The Snow" part-song: SSA acc. 2 violins and piano, also other vocal ...