lyric

[Lyr·ic]

The word lyric claims its emotional place in music and poetry, with the words to a song being called the lyrics, while A lyric poem is one steeped in personal emotions, making it song like.

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A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.

Noun
a short poem of songlike quality

Noun
the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"

Verb
write lyrics for (a song)

Adjective S.
expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer''s lyrical performance"

Adjective
used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano"

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Adjective
of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"

Adjective
relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage"


a.
Alt. of Lyrical

n.
A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.

n.
A composer of lyric poems.

n.
A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.

n.
The words of a song.


Lyric

Lyr"ic, n. 1. A lyric poem; a lyrical composition. 2. A composer of lyric poems. [R.] Addison. 3. A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.

A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.

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Usage Examples

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

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