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Lyrics and Dramatic Poetry

In a lyric poem, the mood is emotional and song-like. Lyric poems focus on the mood, state of mind and emotions of the author, so the reader may experience them also. The author will choose words by their ability to represent moods and feelings or by the way they sound, which can also add to the mood of the poem.  Notice in this excerpt from Shakespeare’s sonnet number 18 how he set the mood:

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed”.

Dramatic poetry is a drama that is written in verse that is meant to be spoken.  Dramatic poetry includes dramatic monologues and rhyme verse. It usually tells a story or refers to a situation. A good example of dramatic poetry comes from Christopher Marlowe. This excerpt is from the opening of “Tamburlaine the Great” and is very dramatic and gets the point across:

"From jigging veins of riming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.”    

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