🧑‍🎤 A lyric poet 🍷 About love or wine 📜 A short poem

anacreontic

9.9

A short poem that praises love or wine

noun
/ˌænəˈkriːɒntɪk/

Literature

: anacreóntico

She recited an anacreontic at the gathering, celebrating the fleeting pleasures of life.

Examples

The poet wrote an anacreontic that beautifully captured the joys of wine and friendship.
In Germany, where "anacreontic" and "lyric" were synonymous, Goethe led the charge in the transformation.

Academic text (2016)
We gain a better sense of still-prevailing views of Anacreontic verse in the year "Wine of Cyprus" was published if we consult the 1844 Webster's Dictionary that informed Dickinson's "lexicon."

Academic text (2016)
Many of his early works are considered anacreontic, focusing on themes of love and revelry.

Synonyms

melic verse

vsanacreontic

Literature

9.9

A poem that people sing, like ancient Greek songs

is a short lyrical poem in that style focusing on love, wine, or pleasure

Antonyms

epic poem

Literature

3 6.7

A long poem that tells the adventures and deeds of a famous hero

heartfelt poetry

Literature

4.0

Poems that show deep true feelings

How Light

anacreontic

Literature

9.9

lyric

Literature

42 4.6

sonnet

Literature

29 6.2

elegy

Literature

6 8.1

dirge

8 8.2

Surface Forms

anacreontic singular

anacreontics plural

Morphology

anacreontic = Anacreon (opaque) = Anacreon + tic

The word is formally built from Anacreon plus -tic, but the meaning of the noun depends on the historical poet and is not recoverable for an average learner from the parts alone.

Etymology

The word anacreontic comes from the Greek poet Anacreon, and an anacreontic is a short 'lyric' poem that praises love, wine, or other simple pleasures.