American Literature / Unit 1 AML 0021 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Ode, Elegy, Lyric
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The idea
An ode is a long formal poem presenting a poet's views on a large subject such as nature, art or death. An elegy commemorates a death, and W-6 attaches Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" to the term. A lyric is any short poem voicing feeling rather than telling a story.
In practice
Praise, mourning, and feeling.
Where people slip
These name occasions, not shapes.
Your place on the trail
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