lyric poem
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- noun
- /ˈlɪrɪk poʊm/
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poema lírico
- She shared a beautiful lyric poem that reflected her feelings about love and loss.
Examples
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The first printed reference comes from 1657 in John Harington's lyric poem The History of Polindor and Flostella.
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Bernie Taupin's lyrics to "Your Song," swept along by John's potent melody, are, like many lyric poems, convincingly about the challenges of doing justice in words to the loved one's qualities.
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Over time, this will yield to short lyric poems in the shape of birds, trees and eggs.
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So when I read a short lyric poem, I'm likely to come to it with the question floating in my mind.
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Yet as a lyric poem, the text abstains from any existential statement.
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Dolan's volume argues that the modern lyric poem developed as an adaptation to the call for "truth in poetry" from post-Reformation readers.
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Lyric poems represent stasis, like a snapshot does; narrative poems represent action and motion, like a movie or video does.
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A lyric poem often captures deep emotions through vivid imagery and musical rhythms.
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During the workshop, we wrote a lyric poem inspired by nature, focusing on our personal experiences.
Synonyms
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A short poem that expresses personal feelings in a songlike way
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A poem that praises someone or something in a formal, musical way
How Lyrical
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'lyric' (a short, songlike poem expressing personal emotion) modifying 'poem' (a verse composition), so a learner who knows both words can infer a poem of lyric quality. This noun–noun compositional pattern is common and has clear cross‑linguistic parallels (e.g. poema lírico), making it immediately comprehensible at B1.
Etymology
Lyric poem comes from the word lyric, which comes from the old word for the small harp, the 'lyre', because these short poems were once sung with that instrument. That's why a lyric poem today means 'a short poem expressing personal feelings'.