![]() Lastly, he said, when Adele heard the finished track, “there was definitely a little bit of tearing up.” The song kind of feels like a lot of different vignettes, reflecting on different times in your life and different people, so all these instruments-bass, drums, piano-felt like other characters.” He is the author of, among others, The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History and The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem.Rechtshaid added: “The song has an old soul vibe to it, but I wanted to keep it a little bit more modern. The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University. We introduce more Carol Ann Duffy poems here. Duffy’s poem seeks out new ways to express the sincerity of love, explored, fittingly enough, in a new sort of ‘sonnet’ (14 lines and ending in a sort-of couplet, though written in irregular free verse). In this tender lyric poem, Auden explores the limits of the poet’s ability to communicate to the world – or perhaps, to a loved one?ĭuffy’s work shows a thorough awareness of poetic form, even though she often plays around with established forms and rhyme schemes to create something new.įirst published in 2005, ‘Syntax’ is a contemporary lyric poem about trying to find new and original ways to say ‘I love you’. Auden (1907-73), wrote in more traditional forms, such as the sonnet or, indeed, the villanelle: a form where the first and third lines of the poem are repeated at the ends of the subsequent stanzas. Indeed, many poets of the 1930s, such as the clear leader of the pack, W. Lyric poems weren’t all written in free verse once we arrived in the twentieth century. Who, or what, is the addressee of this miniature masterpiece? even begins and ends her poem with a question. Flint described as an ‘accurate mystery’: clear-cut crystalline imagery whose meaning or significance nevertheless remain shrouded in ambiguity and questions. In this example of a short free-verse lyric poem, H. D., born Hilda Doolittle in the US in 1886, was described as the ‘perfect imagist’, and ‘The Pool’ shows why. This poem earns its place on this list of great lyric poems because of the originality of the image at its centre: that of comparing the ‘ruddy moon’ to a … well, we’ll let you discover that for yourself.Īfter Hulme’s free verse lyrics came the imagists – a group of modernist poets who placed the poetic image at the centre of their poems, often jettisoning everything else. This short poem by arguably the first modern poet in English was written in 1908 it’s a short imagist lyric in free verse about a brief encounter with the autumn (i.e. But Yeats, using his distinctive lyricism, puts it better than this paraphrase can convey. And dreams are delicate and vulnerable – hence ‘Tread softly’. ![]() If I were a god, I could take the heavenly sky and make a blanket out of it for you.īut I’m only a poor man, and obviously the idea of making the sky into a blanket is silly and out of the question, so all I have of any worth are my dreams. The gist of this poem, one of Yeats’s most popular short lyric poems, is straightforward: if I were a rich man, I’d give you the world and all its treasures. Yeats, ‘ He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’. And what good is there to say about this short poem? We think it’s a beautiful example of early twentieth-century lyricism:įollow the link above to read this tender lyric poem in full.Ħ. The French title of this poem translates as ‘what good is there to say’. ![]() ‘A Quoi Bon Dire’ was published in Charlotte Mew’s 1916 volume The Farmer’s Bride. The heart desires pleasure, but failing that, will settle for being excused from pain, and to live a life without suffering pain.Ĭharlotte Mew (1869-1928) was a popular poet in her lifetime, and was admired by fellow poets Ezra Pound and Thomas Hardy. The poem examines what one’s ‘heart’ most desires: a common theme in lyric poetry. So begins this short lyric poem from the prolific nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-86).
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