The poetry poetry is a poetic style that expresses feelings through words, whether written or oral. Basically it manifests deep feelings or great reflections as a sample of subjectivity. The lyrical poet presents his perception of reality, leaving aside objectivity.
This type of poetry is generally associated with love themes, however it is not limited only to their expression, but includes any kind of emotional manifestation.
The lyrical term has its origins in ancient Greece, where poets manifested themselves through chants accompanied by stringed instruments known as "lyre". All ceremonies, parties or events always had the presence of lyrical poets.
The lyric poetry is characterized by the expression of feelings, the poet transmits through it a certain state of mind. Poetry does not tell a story proper, it does not develop an action, but the expression of a certain emotion.
The most common form of lyric is verse, however, there are authors who developed poetic prose. The most widely used lyrical genre is the "ode", with its various forms: the cantata, the hymn, the canticles, the opera, the song, the sonnet, the eclogue, the elegy, the madrigal and the epigram.
The poems are adjusted to the formal norms that distinguish them: verses, stanzas, rhythm, rhyme; all included under the name of metric. Lyric poetry, being subjective and expressed, most of the time in the first person, ends up becoming an autobiographical story.
Another of its characteristics is the brevity, since generally these poems do not exceed one hundred verses.
Among its greatest exponents are: Federico García Lorca, Rubén Darío, Antonio Gala, among others.
Here is an example of lyric poetry:
How the hours go,
and after them the days,
and the flowery years
of our fragile life!
Old age then comes
from the enemy love,
and the shadows funeral
the death looming,
that squalid and trembling,
ugly, shapeless, yellow,
terrifies us, and off
our fires and said "
Meléndez Valdés, Juan
