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  2. Lyrical subject - Wikipedia

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    The lyrical subject, lyrical speaker or lyrical I is the voice or person in charge of narrating the words of a poem or other lyrical work. [1] The lyrical subject is a conventional literary figure, historically associated with the author, although it is not necessarily the author who speaks for themselves in the subject.

  3. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  4. Lyric essay - Wikipedia

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    Lyric Essay is a literary hybrid that combines elements of poetry, essay, and memoir. [1] The lyric essay is a relatively new form of creative nonfiction. John D’Agata and Deborah Tall published a definition of the lyric essay in the Seneca Review in 1997: "The lyric essay takes from the prose poem in its density and shapeliness, its distillation of ideas and musicality of language."

  5. Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Phanopoeia or phanopeia is defined as "a casting of images upon the visual imagination," [1] throwing the object (fixed or moving) on to the visual imagination. In the first publication of these three types, Pound refers to phanopoeia as "imagism."

  6. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work.

  7. Lyrical - Wikipedia

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    Lyrical may refer to: Lyrics, or words in songs; Lyrical dance, a style of dancing; Emotional, expressing strong feelings; Lyric poetry, poetry that expresses a subjective, personal point of view; Lyric video, a music video in which the song's words are the main element

  8. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    The juxtaposition of unexpected or impossible images is, for example, a particularly strong element in surrealist poetry and haiku. [112] Vivid images are often endowed with symbolism or metaphor. Many poetic dictions use repetitive phrases for effect, either a short phrase (such as Homer's "rosy-fingered dawn" or "the wine-dark sea") or a ...

  9. Lyric poetry - Wikipedia

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    The lyric became the dominant mode of French poetry during this period. [23]: 15 For Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire was the last example of lyric poetry "successful on a mass scale" in Europe. [24] In Russia, Aleksandr Pushkin exemplified a rise of lyric poetry during the 18th and early 19th centuries. [25]