Lyrical themes range from a primary focus on social and political concerns, to gory subject matter and black humor.

Lyrical themes also underwent dramatic changes after the addition of Peart because of his love for fantasy and science-fiction literature.

Lyrical themes include spirituality and religion, poverty, Black pride, social issues, resistance to government and racial oppression, and repatriation to Africa.

Lyrical themes included animal rights, politics, religion, drug abuse, disease, and environmental degradation ; these themes were often lyrically and conceptually intertwined.

Lyrical themes throughout the history of East Coast hip hop have ranged from lyrical consciousness by such artists as Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest to mafioso rap themes by rappers such as Raekwon and Kool G Rap.

Lyrical themes often deal with love and lust, concerns inherited from blues music, with songs often directed at a particular woman.

Lyrical themes on Hell Awaits are darker than on Show No Mercy, and included hell and Satan.

Lyrical themes vary from a computer worshipped as a god, to televangelists, to individualism and doubts about the afterlife.

Lyrical themes vary depending on context ; they can be philosophical, religious, romance, or celebratory, and often use horses as a symbol or theme repeated throughout the song.

Lyrical themes often involve love, sex, perversion, Vampires and occasionally touch on political themes.

Lyrical themes revolve around the military history of Finland and war stories in general.

One of the main themes of " Lyrical Ballads " is the return to the original state of nature, in which people led a purer and more innocent existence.

Lyrical themes that the band frequently explores are hypocrisy and other faults in the personality, particularly on songs such as " Choke Sermon " and " Pathetic ".

Lyrical themes include stories by H. P. Lovecraft, WW2, horror and anti-religious messages.

Lyrical themes on the album prominently focus on topics such as death, suicide, drug abuse and personal struggles.

Her role as Nanoha Takamachi in the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series contributed to a rise in her popularity, as several of her singles (" Little Wish ~ lyrical step ~", " Spiritual Garden ", " Hoshizora no Spica ", " Beautiful Amulet ") were used as the ending themes for the franchise's anime adaptations.

Lyrical themes addressed include unconditional love (" Dandelions "), the events in Denver after Super Bowl XXXII (" Get Your Riot Gear "), the constant rumors of the band's demise (" The Untimely Death of Brad ").

Lyrical topics generally dealt in themes like the occult, horror, death, witchcraft, warfare, destruction, violence, apocalypse, rebellion and tyranny.

Lyrical themes of Arcade Fire consist of parents, suburbia, new love, dread, and drama.

Lyrical themes on the album include South American killing techniques (" Colombian Necktie "), bread that gets you high (" Ergot "), and how " slowly, without trying, everyone becomes what he despises most ".

Lyrical themes in Primal Fear is often a very controversial issue.

Together, Wordsworth and Coleridge ( with insights from Dorothy ) produced Lyrical Ballads ( 1798 ), an important work in the English Romantic movement.

For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ... In this idea originated the plan of the ' Lyrical Ballads '; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least Romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

His collection of American art was strong in Abstract expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo-Dada, Color Field, Lyrical Abstraction, and Neo-Expressionism and he often donated important works from his collection to institutions like MoMA, and other important private museums and University collections like the Norton Simon Museum, the Sheldon Museum of Art and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University among many others.

He pursued his own interests in the art world, ranging from automatic drawing and surrealism, to expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction, and Color Field painting.

Direct literary models were available from a number of sources, including F. V. Dickins ’ s 1866 Hyak nin is ’ shiu, or, Stanzas by a Century of Poets, Being Japanese Lyrical Odes, the first English-language version of the Hyakunin isshu, a 13th-century anthology of 100 tanka, the early 20th-century critical writings and poems of Sadakichi Hartmann, and contemporary French-language translations.

This trilogy was complemented by his last opera Lysistrata, first performed in Athens ( 14 April 2002 ): a call for peace ... With his operas, and with his song cycles from 1974 to 2006, Theodorakis ushered in the period of his Lyrical Life.

Greenberg saw Bush's post-Painters Eleven work as a clear manifestation of the shift from abstract expressionism to Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction, a shift he had called for in most of his critical writings of the period.

About 1800 he also purchased the copyright of Southey's Joan of Arc and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, from Joseph Cottle of Bristol.

* Amy Limietta, a character from the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series

The trend away from painting in the late 20th century has been countered by various movements, for example the continuation of Minimal Art, Lyrical Abstraction, Pop Art, Op Art, New Realism, Photorealism, Neo Geo, Neo-expressionism, and Stuckism and various other important and influential painterly directions.

Californian art from the 1950s through the 1970s is a particular strength, with artwork by Sam Francis, Richard Diebenkorn, Ronald Davis, Larry Bell, Edward Ruscha, Kenneth Price, Charles Arnoldi, and Ed Moses, Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction are represented by Ronald Davis, Sam Francis, Kenneth Noland, Ronnie Landfield, Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, and Kenneth Showell.

Wordsworth had, however, gained some financial security by the 1805 publication of the fourth edition of Lyrical Ballads ; it was the first from which he enjoyed the profits of copyright ownership.

* Characters from the " Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha " anime series:

** " Numbers " combat cyborg characters from the " Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers " season:

* Uno, member of the group Numbers from the anime Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers

With encouragement from Greenberg, Bush became closely tied to two movements that grew out of the efforts of the abstract expressionists: Color Field Painting and Lyrical Abstraction.

* Signum ( Nanoha ), a character from the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series

Similarly, William Wordsworth had said that poetry should come from " emotions recollected in tranquility " ( Preface to Lyrical Ballads, emphasis added ).

Wordsworth himself in the Preface to his and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads defined good poetry as “ the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ,” though in the same sentence he goes on to clarify this statement by asserting that nonetheless any poem of value must still be composed by a man “ possessed of more than usual organic sensibility has also thought long and deeply ;” he also emphasises the importance of the use of meter in poetry ( which he views as one of the key features that differentiates poetry from prose ).

* 1994 -- Very Few People Come This Way: Lyrical Episodes from the Year of the Rabbit.