{s} song-like, resembling a song in form and quality; creating lyric poetry; expressive, characterized by the expression of thoughts and sentiments; written to be sung; of a lyre; exuberant, animated, rhapsodic, full of enthusiasm
In the modern sense this is any fairly short poem expressing the personal feeling, mood or meditation of a single speaker (who sometimes may be an invented character, not the poet) In ancient Greece, however, a lyric was a song for accompaniment on the lyre Current since the Renaissance, the modern sense usually refers to a song-like quality in a poem Lyric poetry is the most extensive category of verse (especially after the decline - since the 19th century - of the other principal kinds such as narrative and dramatic verse M
(from Greek lyra "song"): The lyric form is as old as Egypt (surviving examples date back to 2600 BCE), and examples exist in early Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and other sources If literature from every culture through the ages were lumped into a single stack, it is likely that the largest number of writings would be these short verse poems There are three general meanings for lyric
the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"