Recently while reading a review of the poet Olena Kalytiak Davis, by Ira Sadoff, which appeared in American Poetry Review, I came across the expression, "the lyrical 'I'." Having googled it, I see it's been mentioned in literature. I keep thinking of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Am I on the right track? Can anyone offer a succinct definition? How does this contrast with the metaphysical problem of 'I'?
2006-07-16 20:20:11 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
the lyrical I is the 'character' of the poem. Some poems are about people, but he cant say 'he acts in a poem', so we say 'the lyrical I' does this or that.
It actually has nothing to do with metapphysical problem of i. Just maybe, by calling the character of the poem by 'me', u understand teh poem better.
2006-07-16 20:24:13 · answer #1 · answered by Solveiga 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lyrical I
2016-12-16 03:25:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋