· Lyric Poetry
o Usually relatively short poems
o Related to music
o Can be said in a song
o Most likely the great majority of people encounter poetry in some form rather than a printed form
o Reaches its largest audience to people that can’t read
o Linked to music in certain ways
o Subjective poems very internal poems
o Subjective state of minds rather than history or society
o Love poetry
o Internal states
o Love of the divine
§ At various levels many different kinds of meanings can be laid out at the same time
· There is very often a speaker (devotee) (lover)
o Is very distant
o Aching for union as the beloved
o Distant even cruel in some ways
o Unresponsive
o Strange in the emotional universe
o Morality and orthodox morality is spoken
o Force in society seeks to kill imagination on love
The first bullet points on this list seem fine and include important aspects of lyric poetry; I'm not so sure of some of the bullet points below.
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