Lyric Poetry consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an

ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the

poet.
Does not tell a story which portrays characters
and actions.
The word lyric comes from the Latin lyricus"
meaning of or for the lyre. In lyric poetry, the mood
is musical and emotional.
Addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own
feeling, state of mind, and perceptions.
The speaker in a Lyric poem always uses
first person.
Some other forms of Lyric poetry are Ode
and Elegy
Some of the best examples of lyric poetry are
sonnets.
http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/31-lyric-poetry.htm
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -
And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a
Drum -Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My Mind was going numb -
And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space - began to toll,
As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange
Race Wrecked, solitary, here -
And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down -
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing - then -





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The speaker imagines that a funeral is taking place
inside her brain, and she can feel the mourners
pacing back and forth.



The mourners sit down, and the funeral service
begins. The drum-like beating of the service
makes her think her mind is going numb.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course
untrimmed.

His sonnet is certainly the most famous in the
sequence of Shakespeares sonnets; it may be
the most famous lyric poem in English.


The poem is about an his feeling and thoughts on
everlasting beauty of her woman.
Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 May 15,
1886).

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful
family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly
introverted and reclusive life.

Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by
correspondence.

She was "very bright" and "an excellent scholar and
faithful in all school duties".


Dickinson was troubled from a young age by the
threaten of death, especially the deaths of those
who were close to her.

She became so melancholic that her parents
sent her to stay with family in Boston to recover.

On June 16, 1874, while in Boston, Edward
Dickinson suffered a stroke and died. When the
simple funeral was held in the Homestead's
entrance hall, Emily stayed in her room with the
door cracked open. Neither did she attend the
memorial service on June 28.
A year later, on June 15, 1875, Emily's
mother also suffered a stroke, which
produced a partial lateral paralysis and
impaired memory.

William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564; -23
April 1616) .

An English poet and playwright.

Widely regarded as the greatest writer in
the English language.
Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of
157 sonnets, dealing with themes such as
the passage of time, love, beauty and
mortality.

Other sonnets express the speaker's love
for a young man, brood upon loneliness,
death, and the transience of life.
One interpretation is that Shakespeare's
sonnets are in part pastiche or parody of
the three-centuries-old tradition
of Petrarchan love sonnets.


EMILY DICKINSON (AMERICAN) vs WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE (BRITISH)
1. Both writing were influenced by people who had close
relationship with them.
2. Regard the death as something tramautize.
3. Write based on their personal experiences that
happened at that era/moment.
4. Portraying their personal thoughts and emotion.
5. The poems are not telling about sequence of event
instead it evokes their own perception.