love lyric
- noun
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letra de amor
- I shall examine one of March's poems, poem No. 92, in order to provide an illustration of how religious symbolism extends its influence beyond Christian and heroic works where it would be logically expected, into the secular world of the "gay science" and the love lyric.
Examples
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The relationship allowed Crane to feel some of the exaltation of his old passions, and he completed his last poem, one of his great love lyrics, under its influence on Easter.
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In Quevedo's love lyric, the figure of the lady emerges as a symbol of the transcendence to which the poet, trapped within a mundane sphere, aspires.
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I love lyrics and trying to be complicated and doing different things with words and cadences.
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Along with his love lyrics that achieved notoriety by fragmenting all over the page like sexy grenades, he wrote poems that were meant to be satires.
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I didn't just go for the bric-a-brac satires and the crazily lush love lyrics; I went for lines that verged on nonsense.
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The metaphysical objectives evident in the love lyric and the jeering voice of the humorous verses must be brought together to reflect upon one another mutually.
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The singer's latest album features beautiful love lyrics that express deep emotions.
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Many classic love lyrics capture the essence of romance and longing.
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The poetry competition celebrated the finest love lyrics that resonate with listeners universally.
Synonyms
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A short poem that shows personal feelings, often like a song
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Showing deep personal feelings in a beautiful songlike way
How Romantic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is transparently compositional: 'lyric' denotes the words of a song and 'love' specifies the thematic content (romantic feeling), so a learner who knows both words can infer 'words expressing romantic feelings.' This pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g. Spanish 'letra de amor', French 'paroles d'amour'), reinforcing predictability for B1 learners.
Etymology
Love lyric comes from long ago when singers played a small harp called a 'lyre' and sang short poems about love. So the word lyric became the name for a short song or poem about feelings, and today love lyric means the words that show 'romantic feelings'.