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Question

What does lyrical poem mean?

Also could you tell me what exactly an ode is and writing tips for that kind of poetry...

Thanks!

Answer 1

"Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that does not attempt to tell a story, as do epic poetry and dramatic poetry, but is of a more personal nature instead. Rather than portraying characters and actions, the lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feelings, states of mind, and perceptions. Most lyric poetry is made in a singable and rhymable way, although some lyric poems can be excepted. Lyrical poetry is often used in songs"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric_poetry


Ode:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode

"An ode is simply a poem of celebration. Odes are usually longish (a few pages), serious, and dignified.

They come in two flavors. The Horatian ode (named for the classical Roman poet Horace) is regular — each stanza has the same form. The Pindaric ode (named for the Greek poet Pindar) is irregular — an inconsistent number of feet in each verse, for instance, or variation from stanza to stanza. (The terms don't accurately describe the odes of Horace and Pindar themselves, but that's the way they're usually used in English. Sometimes the Pindaric ode is called Cowleyan, after the English poet Abraham Cowley, who famously used the form in the late seventeenth century.)

Among the most famous English odes: Dryden's "Alexander's Feast," Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale," and "Ode to Autumn," Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality," and Allen Tate's "Ode to the Confederate Dead." Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" is a half-ironic use of the term.

In popular culture it's common to call any sort of poem an ode. Don't"
From:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/ode.html

Answer 2

1.lyric poem
- a short poem of songlike quality

To the Moon

Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,—
And ever-changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

2. ode
- a lyric poem with complex stanza forms


Ode To happiness

an ode to happiness
happiness is one of the many emotions
maybe the greatest off all
it can make you feel all jumpy inside
a first kiss, first love
its all to do with happiness.
but yet happiness never gets thanked
for every thing it has done for us
so im saying thank you for bringing me steven, amy, fayeness, india and everyone else
that means something to me
thank you happiness
-Naomi Burdett

How to Write an Ode

Steps
1Step OneConsider the subject matter that you wish to write about, and remember that beauty can be found in the least expected places. Was watching "American Beauty" the first time you thought a plastic bag caught in the wind was beautiful?
2Step TwoWrite a 10-line stanza of iambic verse using an ababcdecde rhyme scheme.
3Step ThreeProceed to write as many 10-line stanzas as desired. Use the same rhyme scheme pattern in the following stanzas, but with different rhymes. If you do this correctly, the "a" of a stanza will rhyme only with the "a" of that same stanza.
4Step FourRevise as needed.

Tips & Warnings
To write a Pindaric ode (often referred to as the "regular" form of the ode), write three 10-line stanzas. The three parts of the Pindaric ode consist of the strophe and the antistrophe ("the turn" and "the counterturn"), which are identical in form, followed by the epode ("the stand"), which is different.
The Horatian ode does not have a true pattern but tends to be more meditative in nature.
Don't let peers who claim to be poets discourage you from using poetic forms. When you hear a poet say how much he or she dislikes writing in form, remember that a great artist sees the opportunities in every canvas, regardless of shape or size. A poor artist sees only the limitations.

Answer 3

i like it. it relatively is the only real sentence from intercourse with out Love via Sharon Olds which first confirmed me what poetry is able to (it relatively is slightly long): they are like large runners: they know they are on my own with the line floor, the chilly, the wind, the slot of their shoes, their over-all aerobic- vascular well being—only factors, like the important different interior the mattress, and not the fact, that's the only physique on my own interior the universe against its very own suitable time. Edit: and definite as Cheese Whisperer says i could no longer be following guidelines...that's close although.

Answer 4

Check out these links:
Lyrical Poetry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric_poetry
http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC030240/Lyrical.html
http://www.poetry-portal.com/styles8.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/lyric-poetry
An Ode
http://www.ehow.com/how_16706_write-ode.html
http://members.cox.net/berniehpoetry/type/ode.html
http://www.schoollink.org/csd/pages/engl/ode.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070520112810AAiz4Cs

Answer 5

a poem that can also be used as a song.... with a melody