I agree with Alan's point regarding the generalization. A lyric as I
understand it was something that is sung or susceptible of being sung in
accompaniment with a musical instrument or has song like qualities --it is
usually contrasted with narrative and dramatic poetry. So Richard asked
about the poem below -well the syntax and the diction seems to me to be
unlyrical --it is not easy to read smoothly, and I would have thought
fluidity is something one expects in a lyric. Try to sing it. But perhaps we
now have drifted so far from this in our conception of what is lyrical and
not, we might even include it --as we are so generous nowadays.
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>Bathe in scum then, spread
>feint talcum over
>the world. Kestrels
>make good houseguests
>at every turn, claws
>are the true symbol
>of any bilious neo-
>platonic gambler. Salt
>is a hurricane, who
>can you be with now.
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