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In lyrical poetry, the poetic language uses a lyrical voice. The lyrical voice is the expression of thoughts, desires, and fears if the poet. In this type of poetry, the poet generally uses images to describe their ideas. It is also possible to use similes, personification, metaphors, metonymies, or other rhetorical figures, but there is no one required figure, it is entirely up to the poet.

Tone is the attitude expressed by the author toward the subject of the poem, or audience. The tone of a poem has many possibilities; it may be formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, sarcastic, satirical, or even condescending. Lyrical poetry expresses desires, fears, thoughts, and many other emotions. Therefore, the tone, or attitude of the poem has to reflect the emotions and feeling of the author. The structure, meter, and explicit vocabulary are the most common ways to express tone through poetry.

The poets discover themselves, letting you know their emotions and pains in decisive moments of their lives. They tell about their loves, ambitions, anguishes, and their feelings. Their poems, generally brief have various themes, a lively rhyme and a fresh, direct and bold language. Each poet has their own personal style, with preferred thems according to their own life experiences.

Lyrical poetry began in Greece around A.D. 500. It was originally a song that was sung with a lyre, a guitar like instrument. Lyrical poetry was used in distinct occasions such as, banquets, official religious festivals, sport competitions, and other important events. This type of poetry eventually evolved into the form we see today, however it is sometimes still used in music.

Antonio Machado was born in Seville, Spain in 1875, and died in France in 1939 during the Spanish civil war. He was a leader of the generation of 98’ literary movement of Hispanic authors. He is famous for his modernistic style of writing, combined with a tone of melancholy. Machado was also famous for his use of metaphors, and poetic symbols.

Pablo Neruda was born in Chile in 1904, and died of heart failure during the military takeover of the fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet. Although Neruda was a political activist for communism, and spent some time in exile in Italy, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Neruda’s poetry is world famous for his use of metaphors, originality, themes of love, and his lyrical voice.

The English sonnet has a very rigid use of poetic language. This sonnet is divided into three stanzas of four lines, called quatrains, and one stanza of 2 lines called a couplet. All together, the sonnet is fourteen lines long. Each line of the poem is formed in iambic pentameter, meaning that every even syllable is accentuated or stressed, and the line is ten syllables long. The third quatrain of the poem usually contains a volta, or change in imager or theme, and the couplet generally is used for a summary of the poems theme. There is also a required ending rhyme scheme: a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.

Tone is the attitude expressed by the author toward the subject of the poem, or audience. The tone of a poem has many possibilities; it may be formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, sarcastic, satirical, or even condescending. English sonnets can express any one of these tones, as it is entirely up to the poet’s decision. The structure, meter, and explicit vocabulary are the most common ways to express tone through poetry.

Similar to the tone of the English sonnet, the poet is free to write about any theme that is important to them. This can allow this type of poem to also be classified in other genres, such as romanticism, lyrical poetry, minority poetry, or political poetry.

The English sonnet is originally based from lyrical poetry in the form of a song. Although there are varying forms of English sonnet styles, the most commonly used style today was formed in the fourteenth century, and popularized by William Shakespeare around the turn of the 17^th century.

Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka Kansas, 1917, and died in 2000. She was the granddaughter of a runaway slave who fought in the Civil War. Her first poem was published when she was only thirteen years old. She continued to write on many different topics, in many different genres for the rest of her life.

Often literature is the best place for the minority to express their voice. The minority voice in poetry often uses symbolic imagery, and can follow many different patterns. However, this genre is thematically based, that the poetic language is optional, and entirely at the discretion of the poet.

Tone is the attitude expressed by the author toward the subject of the poem, or audience. The tone of a poem has many possibilities; it may be formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, sarcastic, satirical, or even condescending. The minority voice expresses a generally oppressed or overlooked view. Therefore, the tone, or attitude of the poem has to reflect the personal views of the author. The structure, meter, and explicit vocabulary are the most common ways to express tone through poetry.

Minority poetry is a thematically based genre of poetry. The theme must deal with the traditionally underrepresented views or happenings with a gender or cultural minority. Two very common groups that have used poetry as a voice to evoke their views or oppression have been women in feminist poetry, and ethnic minorities.

One can assume that political poetry has existed as long as any dominant group/culture has oppressed, or overshadowed another, which date to prehistorical times. During those times, minority poetry would take the form of songs that dealt with the specific issues. Later those songs developed into written form.

Alfonsina Storni was born in Argentina in 1892, and died in 1938. Her poetry dedicated represented one of the most complete feminist expressions of Hispano-American literature. Her works have also contributed greatly to the consciousness of the marginalized state of women in society.

Nicolás Guillén, the most esteemed Cuban poet of the twentieth century, and considered the axis of Afro-Caribbean poetry. He was born in Cuba in 1902, and died in 1989. Many of his works discuss the differences between the marginalized Afro-Caribbean population, and the Spanish-European populations of the Caribbean. Guillén was a Mestizo, meaning he was a descendent of both groups. He used his poetry to discuss both the social segregation between the two racial groups, as well as the traditions and folklore of the minority African populations of the Caribbean.

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