( Question Mark )", containing a dozen tracks with similar lyrical and instrumental themes, which Morse believes " should be considered one long epic track rather than twelve separate tracks ".

Growing out of this courtly culture, Middle High German literature reached its peak in lyrical love poetry, the Minnesang, and in narrative epic poems such as Tristan, Parzival, and the Nibelungenlied.

H. C. G. Matthew has written that Gladstone " made finance and figures exciting, and succeeded in constructing budget speeches epic in form and performance, often with lyrical interludes to vary the tension in the Commons as the careful exposition of figures and argument was brought to a climax ".

He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas ( The Lusiads ).

Her sisters include Calliope ( muse of epic poetry ), Clio ( muse of history ), Euterpe ( muse of lyrical poetry ), Terpsichore ( muse of dancing ), Erato ( muse of erotic poetry ), Thalia ( muse of comedy ), Polyhymnia ( muse of hymns ), and Urania ( muse of astronomy ).

It gave the hexameter line of epic verse a lyrical impulse by the addition of a shorter " pentameter " line, in a series of couplets accompanied by the music of the aulos or pipe.

In Homage to Sextus Propertius, for example, Pound " translated " parts of Propertius's elegies and by means of various modernizations of diction, drew attention to parallelisms existing between Propertius's situation and Pound's own, especially the pressures of living in an empire at war and Pound's desire to cease writing shorter lyrical poems and start on longer epic structures.

Rolling Stones critics Greil Marcus and Lester Bangs jointly reviewed it and concluded: " Moondance is an album of musical invention and lyrical confidence ; the strong moods of " Into the Mystic " and the fine, epic brilliance of " Caravan " will carry it past many good records we'll forget in the next few years.

It consists of the following pieces: The Battle of Agincourt, an historical poem in ottava rima ( not to be confused with his ballad on the same subject ), and The Miseries of Queen Margaret, written in the same verse and manner ; Nimphidia, the Court of Faery, a most joyous and graceful little epic of fairyland ; The Quest of Cinthia and The Shepherd's Sirena, two lyrical pastorals ; and finally The Moon Calf, a sort of satire.

It is considered a great classic of Hindi epic poetry and literature, and shows the author Tulsidas in complete command over all the important styles of composition — narrative, epic, lyrical and dialectic.

Classical lyrical texts include Os Lusíadas, by Luís de Camões that is an epic book about the history of Portugal and have elements of Greek mythology if from the 16th century.

Kim argued that Panzer Dragoon could be seen as a " lyrical and exhilarating epic ", a " story, not just a game " which could pave the way for a " transformation " of the videogame industry.

Subsequent plays include the historical epic Famine ( 1968 ) which deals with the Irish Potato Famine between 1846 and spring 1847, the anti-clerical The Sanctuary Lamp ( 1975 ), The Gigli Concert ( 1983 ) and for many his masterpiece, the lyrical Bailegangaire and the bar-room comedy Conversations on a Homecoming ( both 1985 ).

" The poems, by turns lyrical, epic and satirical, form a view of the human experience, seeking less to summarize than to illustrate the history of humanity, and to bear witness to its long journey from the darkness into the light.

The band started out with the style of European power metal bands, with lyrical content about epic battles, dragons and swords mixed with high-pitched vocals.

His poetry developed and grew in stature, from the early lyrical collections to the monumental 4, 000-strophe epic novel in verse Svidok dlia sontsia shestykrylykh ( The Witness for the Sun of Seraphims, 1981 ), addressed to the theme of reconciliation between ' man and the Creator.

After a simple and blameless life, during which he produced a vast quantity of verse — epic, tragic, pastoral, lyrical and satirical — he died in 1637, at the patriarchal age of eighty-five.

Šimić was later topic to several other epic songs, lyrical verses, dramas and novels, as well as a 1995 documentary by Croatian Radiotelevision.

This legend appears in detail in Tantra literature, in the Puranas and in Kālidāsa's lyrical Kumārasambhavam, an epic that deals primarily with the birth of Kartikeya.

To the general considerations on Hymnody and Hymnology must be added some bearing particularly on the structure and liturgical use of hymns ( madrashe ), exclusive of poetical homilies or discourses ( mimre ), which belong to the narrative and epic class, while the hymns are lyrical.

His childhood was spent in Swansea, with summer trips to Carmarthenshire to visit Fernhill, a dairy farm owned by his maternal aunt, Ann Jones, the memory of which is used for the 1945 lyrical poem " Fern Hill ".

Prometheus is the lyrical " I " who speaks in Goethe's Sturm und Drang poem " Prometheus " ( written ca.

Between 1935 and 1940 Akhmatova composed, worked and reworked the long poem Requiem in secret, a lyrical cycle of lamentation and witness, depicting the suffering of the common people under Soviet terror.

A newly-found poem on Tithonus is the fourth extant complete poem by ancient Greek lyrical poetess Sappho.

The word " shi " has the basic meaning of poem or poetry, as well as its use in criticism to describe one of China's lyrical poetic genres.

As a result, no fourteenth century Persian poet could write a lyrical poem without having a flavor of mysticism forced on it by the poetic vocabulary itself.

Kalidasa set this poem to the ' mandākrānta ' meter known for its lyrical sweetness.

Breton contributed a laudatory introduction to this 1947 edition, saying that the " poem is nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of our times.

The lover is aware and resigned to this fate but continues loving nonetheless ; the lyrical impetus of the poem derives from this tension.

From 1955 through 1960 Erdman toured extensively as a solo artist throughout the U. S. Notable works from her repertory of that period include Changingwoman ( 1951 ) with a commissioned score by Henry Cowell including vocalizations by Erdman as she moved through a multi-colored abstract projected environment, Portrait of a Lady created to jazz recordings that were layered by John Cage into his eight track commissioned score, Dawn Song, a lyrical solo with commissioned score by Alan Hovhaness, Fearful Symmetry ( 1956 ) an allegory in six visions inspired by William Blake's poem, The Tyger to Ezra Laderman's Sonata for Violincello in which Erdman emerged from and interacted with a metal sculpture by Carlus Dyer, and Four Portraits from Duke Ellington's Shakespeare Album ( 1958 ), a suite of comic portrayals of Shakespearean heroines.

Propertius is the lyrical protagonist of Joseph Brodsky's poem " Anno Domini " ( 1968 ), originally written in Russian.

The narrative of the poem is often interrupted by asides, didactic passages and lyrical reflections.

A lai is a lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.

In 1813 he published the Sanskrit text with a graceful, if somewhat free, translation in English rhymed verse of Kalidasa's charming lyrical poem, the Meghaduuta, or Cloud-Messenger.

Poetic terms, such as " rhapsody " and " recital " and " tone poem ", entered music, and increasingly musicians felt that they should not take the repeats in symphonies because there was no dramatic or lyrical point to doing so.

Various efforts have been made to link this poem to later works featuring innocent, persecuted heroines, but its lyrical nature and brevity of information make establishing such links difficult.

The first of the trio, in A-flat, is an ecstatic work with attractive, lyrical themes, prefaced by a poem by Goethe.

He waxed lyrical about the village, declaring it to be " the most charming village in these Western backwoods " and that it was " the village of the pastoral poem and of the rural lyric, dainty enough for the feet of Amaryllis and attuned to the love songs of Strephon.

Much critical discussion of the poem has focused on the relationship between, on the one hand, the economic thesis on usura, Pound's anti-Semitism, his adulation of Confucian ideals of government and his attitude towards fascism, and, on the other, passages of lyrical poetry and the historical scene-setting that he performed with his ' ideographic ' technique.

O ' Keeffe also wrote The Son-in-Law, Agreeable Surprise which includes the lyrical poem Amo, Amas, and Castle of Andalusia.

The Idiot Boy is a lyrical poem by William Wordsworth.

Most of the poem rhymes in an abba pattern, and while most of the lines are tetrameters, some of the longer non-narrative lyrical descriptions consist of longer lines.