Definition of lyric in English:

lyric

adjective ˈlɪrɪkˈlɪrɪk

1(of poetry) expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.
（诗歌）抒情的
lyric poems of extraordinary beauty
Example sentencesExamples
- A case could be made for thinking (and the publishing history of the work would support it) that Shakespeare's best poetry, even his best lyric poetry, is to be found in his plays.
- Fourier's thought seems readymade for translation into lyric poetry, full as it is with the promise of love, harmony, and nature's bounty.
- The Greek writers of lyric poetry are separated from the Latin poets he considers his own.
- Provenal literature in the medieval period consisted chiefly of the lyric poetry composed by the troubadours for the feudal courts of the Midi, northern Italy, and Spain.
- There is something special about poetry and about lyric poetry in particular, but it's not what most people think.
- Indeed, ‘Weeping Branch’ might well be a response to Adorno's famous question: how can one write lyric poetry after Auschwitz?
- In doing so, he demonstrates quite coherently and cogently that genuine lyric poetry is far from dead, that it is inventive and individual as it ever was.
- Similarly, he considers the necessity of lyric poetry going into print after 1645 instead of remaining in manuscript form.
- Such confusions are, of course, the great subject of lyric poetry.
- Thus, in a number of discussions, I may have shown a little too much brain to one of my tennis partners, a writer of lyric poetry.
- This coincidence naturally included Traherne in Modernist studies of lyric poetry.
- Next, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, and Sir Philip Sidney reanimated English lyric poetry and rekindled the sonnet as the vehicle of eloquent and classical creativity.
- Focusing on lyric poetry, Bertram's model examines the dialogic interaction between the poem and the reader.
- Setting poems by John Keats and William Wordsworth, Braithwaite developed a love of lyric poetry that inspired his own writing.
- Walker traces the history of ancient rhetoric to a common root with lyric poetry.
- While lyric poetry in English has not been without its private contrivances or tropes of conquest, for the most part its ontology has been one of engagement.
- Granted, the poets had the advantage of including among their number Matt Miller, an aspiring writer of lyric verse who happened to have been a defensive starter at Yale five years ago.
- For both writers, charm is more than music: it signifies the power of truthful expression in lyric poetry and polemical prose.
- Despite the fact that it deals with an earlier period of verse, the book locates both male and female-authored lyric poetry as merely one half of the dialogue of early modern courtship.
- Prior to this decline, however, lyric poetry lends itself exceedingly well to the parameters of praise and blame.
Synonyms
melodic, songlike, musical, melodious, lyrical, rhapsodic, poetic
expressive, emotional, deeply felt, personal, subjective, passionate
1. 1.1 Denoting a writer of lyric poetry.
  the lyric poets of Ancient Greece
  Example sentencesExamples
  DAVID CAMPBELL was first and foremost a lyric poet.
  Bogan suffered its loss profoundly, while attempting to understand it as the pattern of the lyric poet's life.
  Famed in his day as patriot, satirist, and foe to tyranny, Marvell was virtually unknown as a lyric poet.
  The poem as philosophical-historical sundial clearly applies to great European lyric poets such as Rilke and Celan.
  I had heard a good deal about Holderlin, that he was the great nineteenth - century lyric poet of Germany.
  For Chernaik, the figure is not Shelley himself, but a stylized portrait of the lyric poet that recurs in much of Shelley's poetry.
  Like the best of Larkin, it does the most difficult thing on earth for a lyric poet to do.
  And I think there is no other lyric poet who even approaches Robert Burns but study of him seems very rare in English literature courses as far as I am aware.
  No lyric poet has been her equal for the intensity and variety of subjective states dramatized.
  He is working on a translation of the German lyric poet Rainer Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus and on music projects with Scottish piano player Steve Hamilton, who lives in Sofia.
  Bloom's Kinsella is, above all, a poet in the lyric tradition.
  These give off the feel of man and earth as a lesson for the anguished lyric poet.
  For Hegel, the lyric poet can only ever be an unhappy consciousness condemned to irony, a self-seeker simultaneously the agent of self-displacement.
  Fitzgerald, a fine lyric poet, neglected today, was able to accommodate his gifts to the buoyancy and basic serenity of the Odyssey.
  I ask da Costa if he is a romantic, knowing from experience that all lyric poets are to some extent tethered by desire - using poetry to write their way through the challenges of the human condition.
  Friedrich Hölderlin is today regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets in the German tongue.
  Film scholar Stanley Kauffmann describes Ozu as ‘a lyric poet whose lyrics swell quietly into the epic.’
  But, however it was encountered, Italian - and specifically Petrarchan - poetry did have a profound effect upon Wyatt and subsequent lyric poets.
  A lyric poet like Thomas had only one material, his own private life and feelings, which he explored with reckless honesty, and outside the poems obsessively guarded its details.
  Andrews assumes that the lyric poet's freedom to dissent is only the freedom to say ‘yes’ to the American ideology - individualism.
2(of a singing voice) using a light register.
（歌声）柔美的
a lyric soprano with a light, clear timbre
具有轻柔、明澈音色的柔美女高音。
Example sentencesExamples
- Although the tenor blew out his lovely lyric voice years ago, long before his bout with and recovery from leukemia, that doesn't seem to bother his fans.
- She gained a reputation as being incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about anything opera and her luscious lyric soprano voice blossomed.
- As we began working with the keys in which her songs were written, she simply poked around on the piano with her pointer finger, singing the scales with her lovely lyric voice.
- The role of Offred herself is double cast, with a mezzo-soprano singing the Offred of the Republic and a lyric soprano singing the role of Offred in the time before.
- It was very unusual - I was the first - for a lyric tenor to sing all those notes in full voice.
- SI, on the other hand, seeks a collective production rather than the individual lyric voice.
- However, the principals' lyric voices are not, on the face of it, weighty enough for the roles of Leonora and Manrico.
- The prestigious opera magazine OPERA NOW describes Ailish's voice as ‘A lyric voice of delicious purity’.
- Earlier in Freni's career she was primarily a lyric soprano, and even sang coloratura roles such as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani.
- My only problem is that the softly brushed texture of this lovely lyric soprano was never meant to do heavy verismo duty at any time during a long career.
- He has all the notes and is the possessor of a lyric tenor voice.
- Again, it is a surprise to us that she attempted it at all, even though the producer of the broadcast was looking to prove a theory about Isolde being a role for a lyric soprano.
- As a refusal to abstract, the lyric voice is crucial to democracy and crucial to life.
- Chelsea Opera Group were performing the opera in English and though Richardson displayed a beautiful lyric voice, she rather swallowed her words.
- Regina has sung major lyric soprano roles throughout Europe including Madrid, Brussels, Hamburg & Geneva.
- The children's mother, Lisa, an accomplished lyric soprano with a degree in vocal music, provided a musically nurturing environment for the siblings to study piano.
- Common consensus was that, as a lyric baritone, his voice was too light but he kept persisting.
- In the concluding ‘Wunderhorn’ song, Ying Huang sang with musicality and charm in a soaring lyric soprano voice.
- Thomas, a fierce lyric voice, was born in 1913 and died at the age of 87 in 2000.
- This she does with a voice that gains additional expression and color as the portrait deepens, a smoothly textured, fully integrated lyric soprano of ample size and flexibility.
Synonyms
light, silvery, clear, lilting, flowing, dulcet, euphonious, sweet, sweet-toned, sweet-sounding, honeyed, mellifluous, mellow, lyrical
rare mellifluent

noun ˈlɪrɪkˈlɪrɪk

1A lyric poem or verse.
抒情诗
an edition of Horace's Lyrics
Example sentencesExamples
- In this way Corey arrives at a critical use of the lyric by occupying the split between aesthetic pleasure and the trauma that is necessarily excluded.
- Interpreting a poem as a symptom or instance of features of the lyric, for example, might be unsatisfactory hermeneutics but a useful contribution to poetics.
- ‘Laus Veneris’ for example is a sophisticated dramatic lyric.
- Britzolakis writes that ‘Plath reinvents the lyric as the vehicle for a crisis of subjectivity which cannot be confined to a biographical narrative’.
- And each string was a different poem, a different lyric organized around a distinct, intense emotion.
- And right on the next page you have ‘The Butterfly’, an exquisite lyric that reminds you of Cummings at his inspired best.
- There is, in fact, no more adroit explainer in our poetry than Pinsky, who lifts the analytic lyric to sometimes sublime heights.
- I was not satisfied with the lyric alone, supreme as it may seem in its moment: a voice speaking directly, intimately to us from any time and place.
- Typical of her verse, this short lyric combines colloquial and archaic vocabulary to localize most of its diction for the imagined audience and yet evoke the language of the English Romantics.
- The moment the critic thinks of a lyric, she is thinking not only about how it is immersed in conditions for thought but also how it allegorizes them.
- The lyric wants muscle but it also wants size; no poem, however small, wants to be small.
- But a song may look like nothing at all, or it may look disappointing, and still be a great lyric.
- For Welish, the seasoned experimentalist, a central question which has never lost its urgency hinges upon what the lyric can comprehend, what it can grasp in its shifting abode.
- Or to put it another way, I want to borrow from the concrete world and project it into the realm of the abstract, where the lyric exists.
- His verse is both metrically and formally experimental, ranging from satire to love lyric, from sonnet to verse epistle, from elegy to hymn.
- Do you feel that you, like many other contemporary innovative or ‘experimental’ women writers, are contributing to a new form of the lyric?
- I think and sleep with the idea for a long time before it takes the shape of a poem or lyric.
- At the same time, it discusses the nature of the lyric.
- In the lyric that follows, the speaker imagines himself as a being contented to be a guest and a stranger, committed to coexistence with other guests and strangers.
- The composition of personal lyric was a secondary consideration for the bard, an affectation for pleasure and reflection.
Synonyms
poetry, versification, metrical composition, rhythmical composition, rhyme, rhyming, balladry, doggerel
poem, piece of poetry, lyric, sonnet, ode, limerick, rhyme, composition, metrical composition, piece of doggerel
1. 1.1mass noun Lyric poetry as a literary genre.
  抒情诗体
  stylistic categories fundamental to literary aesthetics—epic, lyric, drama, comedy, tragedy
  Example sentencesExamples
  Conditions for the survival of the lyric would seem as favorable now as they ever were.
  To pursue the idea that the interest of lyric is linked with a certain performative voicing, let me move from a poete maudit to a priestly poet.
  In the context of elegy and of lyric, however, this marks a distinct departure, and one that acquires weight as print becomes a commodity consumed by unknown readers.
  Abbuehl's singing relies on texture for expression rather than melodic embellishment; she obviously delights in the poetry of the lyric, hence her interest in cummings and Robert Creeley.
  Some people think the hexameter line comes from the lyric, from rhythmic phrases put together, usually three phrases in a line.
  The association of weaving and lyric, its roots in Western literature ancient, has a profoundly material basis in the relation between the bodily rhythm of weaving and that of song.
  Well, what less would you expect of a man who studied English literature to ‘understand lyric better’?
  For those who don't know it it's a fabulous song based on a naive melody and a haiku (a western or American haiku) like lyric.
  Lopate understands it is neither the self as exhibitionist nor the structure of narrative competing with lyric that dulls contemporary poems.
  Nor is it obvious that unrequitedness resonates in Petrarchan lyric in quite the way it does in the literature of American conquest.
  Galician lyric and courtly poetry flourished until the middle of the fourteenth century.
  At which point the traditional antinomies of lyric and epic may be invoked only as skirmishers in the move from the discrete poem to the interconnected book.
  They are also already more interesting than they usually are, for construing lyric as a sort of thought about matter advances poetics in many ways.
  Through its use of the ekphrastic frame, then, epic distances itself from the subjectivizing emotion of lyric by placing the absorptive image at one remove from the narrative proper.
  Levis saw among his generation of poets a ‘new homelessness,’ which meant a lack of identity he saw best attended by a poetry more narrative than lyric.
  All these elements belong within the framework of the lyric, rather than dramatic, tradition.
  I propose that we teach lyric, that we compare poetry.
  By structuring the course around questions of genre migration, world literature allows students to think about the novel, epic, and lyric in a diachronic, global framework.
  My own work on poetry has focused on the Western European tradition of lyric.
2The words of a popular song.
歌词
she has published both music and lyrics for a number of songs
她已出版了一些歌曲的词与曲。
Example sentencesExamples
- What's your favorite quote, verse, lyric or poem?
- It took such a long time to finish the lyrics; we had the first verses and the chorus, and then it just stopped.
- The mathematical rhythms and yearning lyrics of Tagore's songs are hard to resist.
- Entries can be in the form of an innovative new song, fresh lyrics to an existing tune or a chant.
- The production features all Bizet's original music with new lyrics in English.
- The finest of art is comparable to lyrics that haunt the inner mind, lingering on the ear.
- Anyone who finds the golden fish will have their music or lyrics recorded by the star.
- Occasionally in life we come across a piece of art, a tune or a lyric, a poem or a piece of writing that immediately grabs our attention, and keeps us enthralled.
- Meg just threw me a list of songs with questionable lyrics that she found on the web.
- Susanna is printing off the lyrics to Spanish songs and giving them to me.
- He knew I was a musician and they desperately needed somebody to put music to lyrics.
- Composers set countless lyrics to music, and opera depended upon the poetry of the libretto.
- The colours are bright, the music uptempo and the lyrics consistently engaging here.
- She shows you lyrics and sheet music, and you quickly see why she loves Sinatra so much.
- Is it because I'm just bored of nursery rhymes and these have easily remembered lyrics?
- But in a funny way our very brains are the things we use to compose lyrics and we draw on things to write songs.
- Her songs will always have lyrics pertaining to the dilemmas and battles fought during the episode.
- She believes that the lyrics of modern rock songs and rap music make sense.
- Melody after melody, lyric after lyric, song after song emerged, far more than she either needed or knew what to do with.
- In the second verse, the ad leaves out some of the spoken word or background lyrics of the song.
Synonyms
words, libretto, book, text, lines

Origin

Late 16th century: from French lyrique or Latin lyricus, from Greek lurikos, from lura 'lyre'.

Rhymes

empiric, panegyric, Pyrrhic, satiric, satyric, vampiric

Definition of lyric in US English:

lyric

adjectiveˈlirikˈlɪrɪk

1(of poetry) expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.
（诗歌）抒情的
Example sentencesExamples
- The Greek writers of lyric poetry are separated from the Latin poets he considers his own.
- Similarly, he considers the necessity of lyric poetry going into print after 1645 instead of remaining in manuscript form.
- Indeed, ‘Weeping Branch’ might well be a response to Adorno's famous question: how can one write lyric poetry after Auschwitz?
- In doing so, he demonstrates quite coherently and cogently that genuine lyric poetry is far from dead, that it is inventive and individual as it ever was.
- Fourier's thought seems readymade for translation into lyric poetry, full as it is with the promise of love, harmony, and nature's bounty.
- Granted, the poets had the advantage of including among their number Matt Miller, an aspiring writer of lyric verse who happened to have been a defensive starter at Yale five years ago.
- Thus, in a number of discussions, I may have shown a little too much brain to one of my tennis partners, a writer of lyric poetry.
- A case could be made for thinking (and the publishing history of the work would support it) that Shakespeare's best poetry, even his best lyric poetry, is to be found in his plays.
- Despite the fact that it deals with an earlier period of verse, the book locates both male and female-authored lyric poetry as merely one half of the dialogue of early modern courtship.
- Next, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, and Sir Philip Sidney reanimated English lyric poetry and rekindled the sonnet as the vehicle of eloquent and classical creativity.
- Setting poems by John Keats and William Wordsworth, Braithwaite developed a love of lyric poetry that inspired his own writing.
- Prior to this decline, however, lyric poetry lends itself exceedingly well to the parameters of praise and blame.
- Focusing on lyric poetry, Bertram's model examines the dialogic interaction between the poem and the reader.
- Such confusions are, of course, the great subject of lyric poetry.
- There is something special about poetry and about lyric poetry in particular, but it's not what most people think.
- Walker traces the history of ancient rhetoric to a common root with lyric poetry.
- While lyric poetry in English has not been without its private contrivances or tropes of conquest, for the most part its ontology has been one of engagement.
- This coincidence naturally included Traherne in Modernist studies of lyric poetry.
- Provenal literature in the medieval period consisted chiefly of the lyric poetry composed by the troubadours for the feudal courts of the Midi, northern Italy, and Spain.
- For both writers, charm is more than music: it signifies the power of truthful expression in lyric poetry and polemical prose.
Synonyms
melodic, songlike, musical, melodious, lyrical, rhapsodic, poetic
1. 1.1 (of a poet) writing lyric poetry.
  （诗人）写抒情诗的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Fitzgerald, a fine lyric poet, neglected today, was able to accommodate his gifts to the buoyancy and basic serenity of the Odyssey.
  Bogan suffered its loss profoundly, while attempting to understand it as the pattern of the lyric poet's life.
  Friedrich Hölderlin is today regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets in the German tongue.
  The poem as philosophical-historical sundial clearly applies to great European lyric poets such as Rilke and Celan.
  Famed in his day as patriot, satirist, and foe to tyranny, Marvell was virtually unknown as a lyric poet.
  I had heard a good deal about Holderlin, that he was the great nineteenth - century lyric poet of Germany.
  A lyric poet like Thomas had only one material, his own private life and feelings, which he explored with reckless honesty, and outside the poems obsessively guarded its details.
  I ask da Costa if he is a romantic, knowing from experience that all lyric poets are to some extent tethered by desire - using poetry to write their way through the challenges of the human condition.
  For Chernaik, the figure is not Shelley himself, but a stylized portrait of the lyric poet that recurs in much of Shelley's poetry.
  Bloom's Kinsella is, above all, a poet in the lyric tradition.
  And I think there is no other lyric poet who even approaches Robert Burns but study of him seems very rare in English literature courses as far as I am aware.
  He is working on a translation of the German lyric poet Rainer Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus and on music projects with Scottish piano player Steve Hamilton, who lives in Sofia.
  DAVID CAMPBELL was first and foremost a lyric poet.
  Andrews assumes that the lyric poet's freedom to dissent is only the freedom to say ‘yes’ to the American ideology - individualism.
  Like the best of Larkin, it does the most difficult thing on earth for a lyric poet to do.
  For Hegel, the lyric poet can only ever be an unhappy consciousness condemned to irony, a self-seeker simultaneously the agent of self-displacement.
  Film scholar Stanley Kauffmann describes Ozu as ‘a lyric poet whose lyrics swell quietly into the epic.’
  But, however it was encountered, Italian - and specifically Petrarchan - poetry did have a profound effect upon Wyatt and subsequent lyric poets.
  No lyric poet has been her equal for the intensity and variety of subjective states dramatized.
  These give off the feel of man and earth as a lesson for the anguished lyric poet.
2(of a singing voice) using a light register.
（歌声）柔美的
a lyric soprano with a light, clear timber
具有轻柔、明澈音色的柔美女高音。
Example sentencesExamples
- Thomas, a fierce lyric voice, was born in 1913 and died at the age of 87 in 2000.
- As we began working with the keys in which her songs were written, she simply poked around on the piano with her pointer finger, singing the scales with her lovely lyric voice.
- Chelsea Opera Group were performing the opera in English and though Richardson displayed a beautiful lyric voice, she rather swallowed her words.
- She gained a reputation as being incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about anything opera and her luscious lyric soprano voice blossomed.
- This she does with a voice that gains additional expression and color as the portrait deepens, a smoothly textured, fully integrated lyric soprano of ample size and flexibility.
- As a refusal to abstract, the lyric voice is crucial to democracy and crucial to life.
- It was very unusual - I was the first - for a lyric tenor to sing all those notes in full voice.
- He has all the notes and is the possessor of a lyric tenor voice.
- However, the principals' lyric voices are not, on the face of it, weighty enough for the roles of Leonora and Manrico.
- Common consensus was that, as a lyric baritone, his voice was too light but he kept persisting.
- My only problem is that the softly brushed texture of this lovely lyric soprano was never meant to do heavy verismo duty at any time during a long career.
- Although the tenor blew out his lovely lyric voice years ago, long before his bout with and recovery from leukemia, that doesn't seem to bother his fans.
- The role of Offred herself is double cast, with a mezzo-soprano singing the Offred of the Republic and a lyric soprano singing the role of Offred in the time before.
- Earlier in Freni's career she was primarily a lyric soprano, and even sang coloratura roles such as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani.
- In the concluding ‘Wunderhorn’ song, Ying Huang sang with musicality and charm in a soaring lyric soprano voice.
- The children's mother, Lisa, an accomplished lyric soprano with a degree in vocal music, provided a musically nurturing environment for the siblings to study piano.
- SI, on the other hand, seeks a collective production rather than the individual lyric voice.
- Again, it is a surprise to us that she attempted it at all, even though the producer of the broadcast was looking to prove a theory about Isolde being a role for a lyric soprano.
- Regina has sung major lyric soprano roles throughout Europe including Madrid, Brussels, Hamburg & Geneva.
- The prestigious opera magazine OPERA NOW describes Ailish's voice as ‘A lyric voice of delicious purity’.
Synonyms
light, silvery, clear, lilting, flowing, dulcet, euphonious, sweet, sweet-toned, sweet-sounding, honeyed, mellifluous, mellow, lyrical

nounˈlirikˈlɪrɪk

1A lyric poem or verse.
抒情诗
Example sentencesExamples
- The lyric wants muscle but it also wants size; no poem, however small, wants to be small.
- And right on the next page you have ‘The Butterfly’, an exquisite lyric that reminds you of Cummings at his inspired best.
- ‘Laus Veneris’ for example is a sophisticated dramatic lyric.
- There is, in fact, no more adroit explainer in our poetry than Pinsky, who lifts the analytic lyric to sometimes sublime heights.
- The composition of personal lyric was a secondary consideration for the bard, an affectation for pleasure and reflection.
- In this way Corey arrives at a critical use of the lyric by occupying the split between aesthetic pleasure and the trauma that is necessarily excluded.
- Typical of her verse, this short lyric combines colloquial and archaic vocabulary to localize most of its diction for the imagined audience and yet evoke the language of the English Romantics.
- Or to put it another way, I want to borrow from the concrete world and project it into the realm of the abstract, where the lyric exists.
- Interpreting a poem as a symptom or instance of features of the lyric, for example, might be unsatisfactory hermeneutics but a useful contribution to poetics.
- Britzolakis writes that ‘Plath reinvents the lyric as the vehicle for a crisis of subjectivity which cannot be confined to a biographical narrative’.
- And each string was a different poem, a different lyric organized around a distinct, intense emotion.
- I was not satisfied with the lyric alone, supreme as it may seem in its moment: a voice speaking directly, intimately to us from any time and place.
- His verse is both metrically and formally experimental, ranging from satire to love lyric, from sonnet to verse epistle, from elegy to hymn.
- Do you feel that you, like many other contemporary innovative or ‘experimental’ women writers, are contributing to a new form of the lyric?
- For Welish, the seasoned experimentalist, a central question which has never lost its urgency hinges upon what the lyric can comprehend, what it can grasp in its shifting abode.
- The moment the critic thinks of a lyric, she is thinking not only about how it is immersed in conditions for thought but also how it allegorizes them.
- I think and sleep with the idea for a long time before it takes the shape of a poem or lyric.
- In the lyric that follows, the speaker imagines himself as a being contented to be a guest and a stranger, committed to coexistence with other guests and strangers.
- At the same time, it discusses the nature of the lyric.
- But a song may look like nothing at all, or it may look disappointing, and still be a great lyric.
Synonyms
poetry, versification, metrical composition, rhythmical composition, rhyme, rhyming, balladry, doggerel
poem, piece of poetry, lyric, sonnet, ode, limerick, rhyme, composition, metrical composition, piece of doggerel
1. 1.1 Lyric poetry as a literary genre.
  抒情诗体
  Example sentencesExamples
  For those who don't know it it's a fabulous song based on a naive melody and a haiku (a western or American haiku) like lyric.
  By structuring the course around questions of genre migration, world literature allows students to think about the novel, epic, and lyric in a diachronic, global framework.
  My own work on poetry has focused on the Western European tradition of lyric.
  The association of weaving and lyric, its roots in Western literature ancient, has a profoundly material basis in the relation between the bodily rhythm of weaving and that of song.
  Abbuehl's singing relies on texture for expression rather than melodic embellishment; she obviously delights in the poetry of the lyric, hence her interest in cummings and Robert Creeley.
  Levis saw among his generation of poets a ‘new homelessness,’ which meant a lack of identity he saw best attended by a poetry more narrative than lyric.
  To pursue the idea that the interest of lyric is linked with a certain performative voicing, let me move from a poete maudit to a priestly poet.
  Some people think the hexameter line comes from the lyric, from rhythmic phrases put together, usually three phrases in a line.
  Well, what less would you expect of a man who studied English literature to ‘understand lyric better’?
  All these elements belong within the framework of the lyric, rather than dramatic, tradition.
  Lopate understands it is neither the self as exhibitionist nor the structure of narrative competing with lyric that dulls contemporary poems.
  At which point the traditional antinomies of lyric and epic may be invoked only as skirmishers in the move from the discrete poem to the interconnected book.
  I propose that we teach lyric, that we compare poetry.
  Conditions for the survival of the lyric would seem as favorable now as they ever were.
  Nor is it obvious that unrequitedness resonates in Petrarchan lyric in quite the way it does in the literature of American conquest.
  They are also already more interesting than they usually are, for construing lyric as a sort of thought about matter advances poetics in many ways.
  Through its use of the ekphrastic frame, then, epic distances itself from the subjectivizing emotion of lyric by placing the absorptive image at one remove from the narrative proper.
  In the context of elegy and of lyric, however, this marks a distinct departure, and one that acquires weight as print becomes a commodity consumed by unknown readers.
  Galician lyric and courtly poetry flourished until the middle of the fourteenth century.
2The words of a song.
歌词
she has published both music and lyrics for a number of songs
她已出版了一些歌曲的词与曲。
Example sentencesExamples
- The mathematical rhythms and yearning lyrics of Tagore's songs are hard to resist.
- Composers set countless lyrics to music, and opera depended upon the poetry of the libretto.
- Meg just threw me a list of songs with questionable lyrics that she found on the web.
- She shows you lyrics and sheet music, and you quickly see why she loves Sinatra so much.
- Is it because I'm just bored of nursery rhymes and these have easily remembered lyrics?
- Her songs will always have lyrics pertaining to the dilemmas and battles fought during the episode.
- Entries can be in the form of an innovative new song, fresh lyrics to an existing tune or a chant.
- But in a funny way our very brains are the things we use to compose lyrics and we draw on things to write songs.
- Susanna is printing off the lyrics to Spanish songs and giving them to me.
- Anyone who finds the golden fish will have their music or lyrics recorded by the star.
- He knew I was a musician and they desperately needed somebody to put music to lyrics.
- The production features all Bizet's original music with new lyrics in English.
- She believes that the lyrics of modern rock songs and rap music make sense.
- It took such a long time to finish the lyrics; we had the first verses and the chorus, and then it just stopped.
- Occasionally in life we come across a piece of art, a tune or a lyric, a poem or a piece of writing that immediately grabs our attention, and keeps us enthralled.
- What's your favorite quote, verse, lyric or poem?
- The colours are bright, the music uptempo and the lyrics consistently engaging here.
- In the second verse, the ad leaves out some of the spoken word or background lyrics of the song.
- Melody after melody, lyric after lyric, song after song emerged, far more than she either needed or knew what to do with.
- The finest of art is comparable to lyrics that haunt the inner mind, lingering on the ear.
Synonyms
words, libretto, book, text, lines

Origin

Late 16th century: from French lyrique or Latin lyricus, from Greek lurikos, from lura ‘lyre’.

词汇	lyric
释义	Definition of lyric in English: lyric adjective ˈlɪrɪkˈlɪrɪk 1(of poetry) expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms. （诗歌）抒情的 lyric poems of extraordinary beauty Example sentencesExamples A case could be made for thinking (and the publishing history of the work would support it) that Shakespeare's best poetry, even his best lyric poetry, is to be found in his plays. Fourier's thought seems readymade for translation into lyric poetry, full as it is with the promise of love, harmony, and nature's bounty. The Greek writers of lyric poetry are separated from the Latin poets he considers his own. Provenal literature in the medieval period consisted chiefly of the lyric poetry composed by the troubadours for the feudal courts of the Midi, northern Italy, and Spain. There is something special about poetry and about lyric poetry in particular, but it's not what most people think. Indeed, ‘Weeping Branch’ might well be a response to Adorno's famous question: how can one write lyric poetry after Auschwitz? In doing so, he demonstrates quite coherently and cogently that genuine lyric poetry is far from dead, that it is inventive and individual as it ever was. Similarly, he considers the necessity of lyric poetry going into print after 1645 instead of remaining in manuscript form. Such confusions are, of course, the great subject of lyric poetry. Thus, in a number of discussions, I may have shown a little too much brain to one of my tennis partners, a writer of lyric poetry. This coincidence naturally included Traherne in Modernist studies of lyric poetry. Next, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, and Sir Philip Sidney reanimated English lyric poetry and rekindled the sonnet as the vehicle of eloquent and classical creativity. Focusing on lyric poetry, Bertram's model examines the dialogic interaction between the poem and the reader. Setting poems by John Keats and William Wordsworth, Braithwaite developed a love of lyric poetry that inspired his own writing. Walker traces the history of ancient rhetoric to a common root with lyric poetry. While lyric poetry in English has not been without its private contrivances or tropes of conquest, for the most part its ontology has been one of engagement. Granted, the poets had the advantage of including among their number Matt Miller, an aspiring writer of lyric verse who happened to have been a defensive starter at Yale five years ago. For both writers, charm is more than music: it signifies the power of truthful expression in lyric poetry and polemical prose. Despite the fact that it deals with an earlier period of verse, the book locates both male and female-authored lyric poetry as merely one half of the dialogue of early modern courtship. Prior to this decline, however, lyric poetry lends itself exceedingly well to the parameters of praise and blame. Synonyms melodic, songlike, musical, melodious, lyrical, rhapsodic, poetic expressive, emotional, deeply felt, personal, subjective, passionate 1.1 Denoting a writer of lyric poetry. the lyric poets of Ancient Greece Example sentencesExamples DAVID CAMPBELL was first and foremost a lyric poet. Bogan suffered its loss profoundly, while attempting to understand it as the pattern of the lyric poet's life. Famed in his day as patriot, satirist, and foe to tyranny, Marvell was virtually unknown as a lyric poet. The poem as philosophical-historical sundial clearly applies to great European lyric poets such as Rilke and Celan. I had heard a good deal about Holderlin, that he was the great nineteenth - century lyric poet of Germany. For Chernaik, the figure is not Shelley himself, but a stylized portrait of the lyric poet that recurs in much of Shelley's poetry. Like the best of Larkin, it does the most difficult thing on earth for a lyric poet to do. And I think there is no other lyric poet who even approaches Robert Burns but study of him seems very rare in English literature courses as far as I am aware. No lyric poet has been her equal for the intensity and variety of subjective states dramatized. He is working on a translation of the German lyric poet Rainer Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus and on music projects with Scottish piano player Steve Hamilton, who lives in Sofia. Bloom's Kinsella is, above all, a poet in the lyric tradition. These give off the feel of man and earth as a lesson for the anguished lyric poet. For Hegel, the lyric poet can only ever be an unhappy consciousness condemned to irony, a self-seeker simultaneously the agent of self-displacement. Fitzgerald, a fine lyric poet, neglected today, was able to accommodate his gifts to the buoyancy and basic serenity of the Odyssey. I ask da Costa if he is a romantic, knowing from experience that all lyric poets are to some extent tethered by desire - using poetry to write their way through the challenges of the human condition. Friedrich Hölderlin is today regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets in the German tongue. Film scholar Stanley Kauffmann describes Ozu as ‘a lyric poet whose lyrics swell quietly into the epic.’ But, however it was encountered, Italian - and specifically Petrarchan - poetry did have a profound effect upon Wyatt and subsequent lyric poets. A lyric poet like Thomas had only one material, his own private life and feelings, which he explored with reckless honesty, and outside the poems obsessively guarded its details. Andrews assumes that the lyric poet's freedom to dissent is only the freedom to say ‘yes’ to the American ideology - individualism. 2(of a singing voice) using a light register. （歌声）柔美的 a lyric soprano with a light, clear timbre 具有轻柔、明澈音色的柔美女高音。 Example sentencesExamples Although the tenor blew out his lovely lyric voice years ago, long before his bout with and recovery from leukemia, that doesn't seem to bother his fans. She gained a reputation as being incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about anything opera and her luscious lyric soprano voice blossomed. As we began working with the keys in which her songs were written, she simply poked around on the piano with her pointer finger, singing the scales with her lovely lyric voice. The role of Offred herself is double cast, with a mezzo-soprano singing the Offred of the Republic and a lyric soprano singing the role of Offred in the time before. It was very unusual - I was the first - for a lyric tenor to sing all those notes in full voice. SI, on the other hand, seeks a collective production rather than the individual lyric voice. However, the principals' lyric voices are not, on the face of it, weighty enough for the roles of Leonora and Manrico. The prestigious opera magazine OPERA NOW describes Ailish's voice as ‘A lyric voice of delicious purity’. Earlier in Freni's career she was primarily a lyric soprano, and even sang coloratura roles such as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani. My only problem is that the softly brushed texture of this lovely lyric soprano was never meant to do heavy verismo duty at any time during a long career. He has all the notes and is the possessor of a lyric tenor voice. Again, it is a surprise to us that she attempted it at all, even though the producer of the broadcast was looking to prove a theory about Isolde being a role for a lyric soprano. As a refusal to abstract, the lyric voice is crucial to democracy and crucial to life. Chelsea Opera Group were performing the opera in English and though Richardson displayed a beautiful lyric voice, she rather swallowed her words. Regina has sung major lyric soprano roles throughout Europe including Madrid, Brussels, Hamburg & Geneva. The children's mother, Lisa, an accomplished lyric soprano with a degree in vocal music, provided a musically nurturing environment for the siblings to study piano. Common consensus was that, as a lyric baritone, his voice was too light but he kept persisting. In the concluding ‘Wunderhorn’ song, Ying Huang sang with musicality and charm in a soaring lyric soprano voice. Thomas, a fierce lyric voice, was born in 1913 and died at the age of 87 in 2000. This she does with a voice that gains additional expression and color as the portrait deepens, a smoothly textured, fully integrated lyric soprano of ample size and flexibility. Synonyms light, silvery, clear, lilting, flowing, dulcet, euphonious, sweet, sweet-toned, sweet-sounding, honeyed, mellifluous, mellow, lyrical rare mellifluent noun ˈlɪrɪkˈlɪrɪk 1A lyric poem or verse. 抒情诗 an edition of Horace's Lyrics Example sentencesExamples In this way Corey arrives at a critical use of the lyric by occupying the split between aesthetic pleasure and the trauma that is necessarily excluded. Interpreting a poem as a symptom or instance of features of the lyric, for example, might be unsatisfactory hermeneutics but a useful contribution to poetics. ‘Laus Veneris’ for example is a sophisticated dramatic lyric. Britzolakis writes that ‘Plath reinvents the lyric as the vehicle for a crisis of subjectivity which cannot be confined to a biographical narrative’. And each string was a different poem, a different lyric organized around a distinct, intense emotion. And right on the next page you have ‘The Butterfly’, an exquisite lyric that reminds you of Cummings at his inspired best. There is, in fact, no more adroit explainer in our poetry than Pinsky, who lifts the analytic lyric to sometimes sublime heights. I was not satisfied with the lyric alone, supreme as it may seem in its moment: a voice speaking directly, intimately to us from any time and place. Typical of her verse, this short lyric combines colloquial and archaic vocabulary to localize most of its diction for the imagined audience and yet evoke the language of the English Romantics. The moment the critic thinks of a lyric, she is thinking not only about how it is immersed in conditions for thought but also how it allegorizes them. The lyric wants muscle but it also wants size; no poem, however small, wants to be small. But a song may look like nothing at all, or it may look disappointing, and still be a great lyric. For Welish, the seasoned experimentalist, a central question which has never lost its urgency hinges upon what the lyric can comprehend, what it can grasp in its shifting abode. Or to put it another way, I want to borrow from the concrete world and project it into the realm of the abstract, where the lyric exists. His verse is both metrically and formally experimental, ranging from satire to love lyric, from sonnet to verse epistle, from elegy to hymn. Do you feel that you, like many other contemporary innovative or ‘experimental’ women writers, are contributing to a new form of the lyric? I think and sleep with the idea for a long time before it takes the shape of a poem or lyric. At the same time, it discusses the nature of the lyric. In the lyric that follows, the speaker imagines himself as a being contented to be a guest and a stranger, committed to coexistence with other guests and strangers. The composition of personal lyric was a secondary consideration for the bard, an affectation for pleasure and reflection. Synonyms poetry, versification, metrical composition, rhythmical composition, rhyme, rhyming, balladry, doggerel poem, piece of poetry, lyric, sonnet, ode, limerick, rhyme, composition, metrical composition, piece of doggerel 1.1mass noun Lyric poetry as a literary genre. 抒情诗体 stylistic categories fundamental to literary aesthetics—epic, lyric, drama, comedy, tragedy Example sentencesExamples Conditions for the survival of the lyric would seem as favorable now as they ever were. To pursue the idea that the interest of lyric is linked with a certain performative voicing, let me move from a poete maudit to a priestly poet. In the context of elegy and of lyric, however, this marks a distinct departure, and one that acquires weight as print becomes a commodity consumed by unknown readers. Abbuehl's singing relies on texture for expression rather than melodic embellishment; she obviously delights in the poetry of the lyric, hence her interest in cummings and Robert Creeley. Some people think the hexameter line comes from the lyric, from rhythmic phrases put together, usually three phrases in a line. The association of weaving and lyric, its roots in Western literature ancient, has a profoundly material basis in the relation between the bodily rhythm of weaving and that of song. Well, what less would you expect of a man who studied English literature to ‘understand lyric better’? For those who don't know it it's a fabulous song based on a naive melody and a haiku (a western or American haiku) like lyric. Lopate understands it is neither the self as exhibitionist nor the structure of narrative competing with lyric that dulls contemporary poems. Nor is it obvious that unrequitedness resonates in Petrarchan lyric in quite the way it does in the literature of American conquest. Galician lyric and courtly poetry flourished until the middle of the fourteenth century. At which point the traditional antinomies of lyric and epic may be invoked only as skirmishers in the move from the discrete poem to the interconnected book. They are also already more interesting than they usually are, for construing lyric as a sort of thought about matter advances poetics in many ways. Through its use of the ekphrastic frame, then, epic distances itself from the subjectivizing emotion of lyric by placing the absorptive image at one remove from the narrative proper. Levis saw among his generation of poets a ‘new homelessness,’ which meant a lack of identity he saw best attended by a poetry more narrative than lyric. All these elements belong within the framework of the lyric, rather than dramatic, tradition. I propose that we teach lyric, that we compare poetry. By structuring the course around questions of genre migration, world literature allows students to think about the novel, epic, and lyric in a diachronic, global framework. My own work on poetry has focused on the Western European tradition of lyric. 2The words of a popular song. 歌词 she has published both music and lyrics for a number of songs 她已出版了一些歌曲的词与曲。 Example sentencesExamples What's your favorite quote, verse, lyric or poem? It took such a long time to finish the lyrics; we had the first verses and the chorus, and then it just stopped. The mathematical rhythms and yearning lyrics of Tagore's songs are hard to resist. Entries can be in the form of an innovative new song, fresh lyrics to an existing tune or a chant. The production features all Bizet's original music with new lyrics in English. The finest of art is comparable to lyrics that haunt the inner mind, lingering on the ear. Anyone who finds the golden fish will have their music or lyrics recorded by the star. Occasionally in life we come across a piece of art, a tune or a lyric, a poem or a piece of writing that immediately grabs our attention, and keeps us enthralled. Meg just threw me a list of songs with questionable lyrics that she found on the web. Susanna is printing off the lyrics to Spanish songs and giving them to me. He knew I was a musician and they desperately needed somebody to put music to lyrics. Composers set countless lyrics to music, and opera depended upon the poetry of the libretto. The colours are bright, the music uptempo and the lyrics consistently engaging here. She shows you lyrics and sheet music, and you quickly see why she loves Sinatra so much. Is it because I'm just bored of nursery rhymes and these have easily remembered lyrics? But in a funny way our very brains are the things we use to compose lyrics and we draw on things to write songs. Her songs will always have lyrics pertaining to the dilemmas and battles fought during the episode. She believes that the lyrics of modern rock songs and rap music make sense. Melody after melody, lyric after lyric, song after song emerged, far more than she either needed or knew what to do with. In the second verse, the ad leaves out some of the spoken word or background lyrics of the song. Synonyms words, libretto, book, text, lines Origin Late 16th century: from French lyrique or Latin lyricus, from Greek lurikos, from lura 'lyre'. Rhymes empiric, panegyric, Pyrrhic, satiric, satyric, vampiric Definition of lyric in US English: lyric adjectiveˈlirikˈlɪrɪk 1(of poetry) expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms. （诗歌）抒情的 Example sentencesExamples The Greek writers of lyric poetry are separated from the Latin poets he considers his own. Similarly, he considers the necessity of lyric poetry going into print after 1645 instead of remaining in manuscript form. Indeed, ‘Weeping Branch’ might well be a response to Adorno's famous question: how can one write lyric poetry after Auschwitz? In doing so, he demonstrates quite coherently and cogently that genuine lyric poetry is far from dead, that it is inventive and individual as it ever was. Fourier's thought seems readymade for translation into lyric poetry, full as it is with the promise of love, harmony, and nature's bounty. Granted, the poets had the advantage of including among their number Matt Miller, an aspiring writer of lyric verse who happened to have been a defensive starter at Yale five years ago. Thus, in a number of discussions, I may have shown a little too much brain to one of my tennis partners, a writer of lyric poetry. A case could be made for thinking (and the publishing history of the work would support it) that Shakespeare's best poetry, even his best lyric poetry, is to be found in his plays. Despite the fact that it deals with an earlier period of verse, the book locates both male and female-authored lyric poetry as merely one half of the dialogue of early modern courtship. Next, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, and Sir Philip Sidney reanimated English lyric poetry and rekindled the sonnet as the vehicle of eloquent and classical creativity. Setting poems by John Keats and William Wordsworth, Braithwaite developed a love of lyric poetry that inspired his own writing. Prior to this decline, however, lyric poetry lends itself exceedingly well to the parameters of praise and blame. Focusing on lyric poetry, Bertram's model examines the dialogic interaction between the poem and the reader. Such confusions are, of course, the great subject of lyric poetry. There is something special about poetry and about lyric poetry in particular, but it's not what most people think. Walker traces the history of ancient rhetoric to a common root with lyric poetry. While lyric poetry in English has not been without its private contrivances or tropes of conquest, for the most part its ontology has been one of engagement. This coincidence naturally included Traherne in Modernist studies of lyric poetry. Provenal literature in the medieval period consisted chiefly of the lyric poetry composed by the troubadours for the feudal courts of the Midi, northern Italy, and Spain. For both writers, charm is more than music: it signifies the power of truthful expression in lyric poetry and polemical prose. Synonyms melodic, songlike, musical, melodious, lyrical, rhapsodic, poetic 1.1 (of a poet) writing lyric poetry. （诗人）写抒情诗的 Example sentencesExamples Fitzgerald, a fine lyric poet, neglected today, was able to accommodate his gifts to the buoyancy and basic serenity of the Odyssey. Bogan suffered its loss profoundly, while attempting to understand it as the pattern of the lyric poet's life. Friedrich Hölderlin is today regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets in the German tongue. The poem as philosophical-historical sundial clearly applies to great European lyric poets such as Rilke and Celan. Famed in his day as patriot, satirist, and foe to tyranny, Marvell was virtually unknown as a lyric poet. I had heard a good deal about Holderlin, that he was the great nineteenth - century lyric poet of Germany. A lyric poet like Thomas had only one material, his own private life and feelings, which he explored with reckless honesty, and outside the poems obsessively guarded its details. I ask da Costa if he is a romantic, knowing from experience that all lyric poets are to some extent tethered by desire - using poetry to write their way through the challenges of the human condition. For Chernaik, the figure is not Shelley himself, but a stylized portrait of the lyric poet that recurs in much of Shelley's poetry. Bloom's Kinsella is, above all, a poet in the lyric tradition. And I think there is no other lyric poet who even approaches Robert Burns but study of him seems very rare in English literature courses as far as I am aware. He is working on a translation of the German lyric poet Rainer Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus and on music projects with Scottish piano player Steve Hamilton, who lives in Sofia. DAVID CAMPBELL was first and foremost a lyric poet. Andrews assumes that the lyric poet's freedom to dissent is only the freedom to say ‘yes’ to the American ideology - individualism. Like the best of Larkin, it does the most difficult thing on earth for a lyric poet to do. For Hegel, the lyric poet can only ever be an unhappy consciousness condemned to irony, a self-seeker simultaneously the agent of self-displacement. Film scholar Stanley Kauffmann describes Ozu as ‘a lyric poet whose lyrics swell quietly into the epic.’ But, however it was encountered, Italian - and specifically Petrarchan - poetry did have a profound effect upon Wyatt and subsequent lyric poets. No lyric poet has been her equal for the intensity and variety of subjective states dramatized. These give off the feel of man and earth as a lesson for the anguished lyric poet. 2(of a singing voice) using a light register. （歌声）柔美的 a lyric soprano with a light, clear timber 具有轻柔、明澈音色的柔美女高音。 Example sentencesExamples Thomas, a fierce lyric voice, was born in 1913 and died at the age of 87 in 2000. As we began working with the keys in which her songs were written, she simply poked around on the piano with her pointer finger, singing the scales with her lovely lyric voice. Chelsea Opera Group were performing the opera in English and though Richardson displayed a beautiful lyric voice, she rather swallowed her words. She gained a reputation as being incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about anything opera and her luscious lyric soprano voice blossomed. This she does with a voice that gains additional expression and color as the portrait deepens, a smoothly textured, fully integrated lyric soprano of ample size and flexibility. As a refusal to abstract, the lyric voice is crucial to democracy and crucial to life. It was very unusual - I was the first - for a lyric tenor to sing all those notes in full voice. He has all the notes and is the possessor of a lyric tenor voice. However, the principals' lyric voices are not, on the face of it, weighty enough for the roles of Leonora and Manrico. Common consensus was that, as a lyric baritone, his voice was too light but he kept persisting. My only problem is that the softly brushed texture of this lovely lyric soprano was never meant to do heavy verismo duty at any time during a long career. Although the tenor blew out his lovely lyric voice years ago, long before his bout with and recovery from leukemia, that doesn't seem to bother his fans. The role of Offred herself is double cast, with a mezzo-soprano singing the Offred of the Republic and a lyric soprano singing the role of Offred in the time before. Earlier in Freni's career she was primarily a lyric soprano, and even sang coloratura roles such as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani. In the concluding ‘Wunderhorn’ song, Ying Huang sang with musicality and charm in a soaring lyric soprano voice. The children's mother, Lisa, an accomplished lyric soprano with a degree in vocal music, provided a musically nurturing environment for the siblings to study piano. SI, on the other hand, seeks a collective production rather than the individual lyric voice. Again, it is a surprise to us that she attempted it at all, even though the producer of the broadcast was looking to prove a theory about Isolde being a role for a lyric soprano. Regina has sung major lyric soprano roles throughout Europe including Madrid, Brussels, Hamburg & Geneva. The prestigious opera magazine OPERA NOW describes Ailish's voice as ‘A lyric voice of delicious purity’. Synonyms light, silvery, clear, lilting, flowing, dulcet, euphonious, sweet, sweet-toned, sweet-sounding, honeyed, mellifluous, mellow, lyrical nounˈlirikˈlɪrɪk 1A lyric poem or verse. 抒情诗 Example sentencesExamples The lyric wants muscle but it also wants size; no poem, however small, wants to be small. And right on the next page you have ‘The Butterfly’, an exquisite lyric that reminds you of Cummings at his inspired best. ‘Laus Veneris’ for example is a sophisticated dramatic lyric. There is, in fact, no more adroit explainer in our poetry than Pinsky, who lifts the analytic lyric to sometimes sublime heights. The composition of personal lyric was a secondary consideration for the bard, an affectation for pleasure and reflection. In this way Corey arrives at a critical use of the lyric by occupying the split between aesthetic pleasure and the trauma that is necessarily excluded. Typical of her verse, this short lyric combines colloquial and archaic vocabulary to localize most of its diction for the imagined audience and yet evoke the language of the English Romantics. Or to put it another way, I want to borrow from the concrete world and project it into the realm of the abstract, where the lyric exists. Interpreting a poem as a symptom or instance of features of the lyric, for example, might be unsatisfactory hermeneutics but a useful contribution to poetics. Britzolakis writes that ‘Plath reinvents the lyric as the vehicle for a crisis of subjectivity which cannot be confined to a biographical narrative’. And each string was a different poem, a different lyric organized around a distinct, intense emotion. I was not satisfied with the lyric alone, supreme as it may seem in its moment: a voice speaking directly, intimately to us from any time and place. His verse is both metrically and formally experimental, ranging from satire to love lyric, from sonnet to verse epistle, from elegy to hymn. Do you feel that you, like many other contemporary innovative or ‘experimental’ women writers, are contributing to a new form of the lyric? For Welish, the seasoned experimentalist, a central question which has never lost its urgency hinges upon what the lyric can comprehend, what it can grasp in its shifting abode. The moment the critic thinks of a lyric, she is thinking not only about how it is immersed in conditions for thought but also how it allegorizes them. I think and sleep with the idea for a long time before it takes the shape of a poem or lyric. In the lyric that follows, the speaker imagines himself as a being contented to be a guest and a stranger, committed to coexistence with other guests and strangers. At the same time, it discusses the nature of the lyric. But a song may look like nothing at all, or it may look disappointing, and still be a great lyric. Synonyms poetry, versification, metrical composition, rhythmical composition, rhyme, rhyming, balladry, doggerel poem, piece of poetry, lyric, sonnet, ode, limerick, rhyme, composition, metrical composition, piece of doggerel 1.1 Lyric poetry as a literary genre. 抒情诗体 Example sentencesExamples For those who don't know it it's a fabulous song based on a naive melody and a haiku (a western or American haiku) like lyric. By structuring the course around questions of genre migration, world literature allows students to think about the novel, epic, and lyric in a diachronic, global framework. My own work on poetry has focused on the Western European tradition of lyric. The association of weaving and lyric, its roots in Western literature ancient, has a profoundly material basis in the relation between the bodily rhythm of weaving and that of song. Abbuehl's singing relies on texture for expression rather than melodic embellishment; she obviously delights in the poetry of the lyric, hence her interest in cummings and Robert Creeley. Levis saw among his generation of poets a ‘new homelessness,’ which meant a lack of identity he saw best attended by a poetry more narrative than lyric. To pursue the idea that the interest of lyric is linked with a certain performative voicing, let me move from a poete maudit to a priestly poet. Some people think the hexameter line comes from the lyric, from rhythmic phrases put together, usually three phrases in a line. Well, what less would you expect of a man who studied English literature to ‘understand lyric better’? All these elements belong within the framework of the lyric, rather than dramatic, tradition. Lopate understands it is neither the self as exhibitionist nor the structure of narrative competing with lyric that dulls contemporary poems. At which point the traditional antinomies of lyric and epic may be invoked only as skirmishers in the move from the discrete poem to the interconnected book. I propose that we teach lyric, that we compare poetry. Conditions for the survival of the lyric would seem as favorable now as they ever were. Nor is it obvious that unrequitedness resonates in Petrarchan lyric in quite the way it does in the literature of American conquest. They are also already more interesting than they usually are, for construing lyric as a sort of thought about matter advances poetics in many ways. Through its use of the ekphrastic frame, then, epic distances itself from the subjectivizing emotion of lyric by placing the absorptive image at one remove from the narrative proper. In the context of elegy and of lyric, however, this marks a distinct departure, and one that acquires weight as print becomes a commodity consumed by unknown readers. Galician lyric and courtly poetry flourished until the middle of the fourteenth century. 2The words of a song. 歌词 she has published both music and lyrics for a number of songs 她已出版了一些歌曲的词与曲。 Example sentencesExamples The mathematical rhythms and yearning lyrics of Tagore's songs are hard to resist. Composers set countless lyrics to music, and opera depended upon the poetry of the libretto. Meg just threw me a list of songs with questionable lyrics that she found on the web. She shows you lyrics and sheet music, and you quickly see why she loves Sinatra so much. Is it because I'm just bored of nursery rhymes and these have easily remembered lyrics? Her songs will always have lyrics pertaining to the dilemmas and battles fought during the episode. Entries can be in the form of an innovative new song, fresh lyrics to an existing tune or a chant. But in a funny way our very brains are the things we use to compose lyrics and we draw on things to write songs. Susanna is printing off the lyrics to Spanish songs and giving them to me. Anyone who finds the golden fish will have their music or lyrics recorded by the star. He knew I was a musician and they desperately needed somebody to put music to lyrics. The production features all Bizet's original music with new lyrics in English. She believes that the lyrics of modern rock songs and rap music make sense. It took such a long time to finish the lyrics; we had the first verses and the chorus, and then it just stopped. Occasionally in life we come across a piece of art, a tune or a lyric, a poem or a piece of writing that immediately grabs our attention, and keeps us enthralled. What's your favorite quote, verse, lyric or poem? The colours are bright, the music uptempo and the lyrics consistently engaging here. In the second verse, the ad leaves out some of the spoken word or background lyrics of the song. Melody after melody, lyric after lyric, song after song emerged, far more than she either needed or knew what to do with. The finest of art is comparable to lyrics that haunt the inner mind, lingering on the ear. Synonyms words, libretto, book, text, lines Origin Late 16th century: from French lyrique or Latin lyricus, from Greek lurikos, from lura ‘lyre’.
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