Simple request. Those listers who talk about the modern lyric. Show me a
short poem of roughly the same length of a lyric which isn't lyrical and one
that is a lyric. Put them alongside each other for comparison. I doubt if
you can do that because your definition of lyric covers all short poems.
One then has to ask why the word lyric is used --isn't it really a way of
trying to sneak the romanticist notion of self back under the door --because
alongside the traditional notion of a lyric being singable there was the
concurrent idea that it was a form which expressed the poet's private
feelings etc. So when we say it is lyrical, are we saying that it is a short
poem in which the "poet" is much in evidence --as against the poems in which
he/she keeps a low profile or is "invisible".?.
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