Musical Vocation and Features of Lyrical Poetry

The Musical Vocation of Lyric Poetry

Lyric: The song lyric is such that there is an intimate connection with music lyrics and cantatas. They end up being set to music, and lyrical poetry has, in its origin and name, a musical vocation—its will to exist in the voice.

Key Features of the Poetic Genre

Poetry is the genre that states most clearly the specific character of literature and its distance from everyday language.

• Emotional Expression: One characteristic is the emotional aspect, as the poem seeks to convey a particular mood.
• Lyrical Immediacy: In lyrical immediacy, there is always a bet to reduce the space for expression in search of greater concentration and emotional density.
• The Lyrical "I": The most important feature is the lyrical "I", where the author expresses a feeling. However, the poem does not necessarily express what the author feels at that exact moment.

The excitement and immediacy of the lyric, combined with the outcome of the task of the poet, are artifice. We can relate the poem's memorability to this, as for a poem to be good, its author and the work will never be divided.

Structure, Metrics, and Order

This influences the sense of metrics, where the poem is characterized by putting order and symmetry into language. To establish order, we do it through the line (verse), which is the most obvious model of order. The poem establishes a new, own, and particular order; every group is a determined extension imposed as a stanza. The final break of the verse gives special attention to a series of words, which are also characterized by rhyme.

Rhyme, Rhythm, and Silence

Rhyme is based on the repetition of sounds at the end of the final verses where words rhyme with each other. Rhythm (also based on repetition) is a regular distribution of stressed and unstressed syllables in each verse. Free verse is characterized by the absence of rhyme and syllabic computing, which is characteristic of modern poetry. Finally, silence always exists, as without it, poetry cannot be (the limit of the verse).

Literary Devices and Forms

The metaphor puts two entities that have some type of relationship in relation to each other, using one to designate the other. Through symbols, we name something we want to say. Lyric poetry and poetic prose symbolize what poetry is. Lyric poetry included epic poetry, which was very important in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as well as didactic and exemplary compositions in verse. In poetic prose, the limit of the verse has gone, but that does not stop us from talking about it or even finishing the prose.

Subgenres of Lyric Poetry

The poem is often referred to as a song, lyric, or love ode. The content is a subgenre that supports diverse subjects prone to an elevated and philosophical tone. Facing the seriousness of this subgenre, the Anacreontic is characterized by addressing light issues with very little transcendence and a very marked form.

An eclogue is a pastoral composition starring characters who sing of their fortunes and misfortunes in love. Between lyric and narrative is the verse epistle, a letter addressed to a friend. As an example of poetry of circumstance, there is the elegy, a lament for the death of an acquaintance.