Question

What do you know about Elizabethan Lyric and Romantic lyric? Or Difference between Elizabethan and Romantic lyric. ​

Answer 1

Difference between Elizabethan and Romantic lyric

Explanation:

Elizabethan Lyric-

• The Elizabethan period, particularly the period from 1580 to 1603, is the golden age of the Renaissance. The period from 1550 to 1580 is the formative and imitative period of Elizabethan poetry.
• Elizabethan age was rich in poetry, though its dramatic literature was richer. Shakespeare was not only the greatest dramatist but also the greatest poet of the Elizabethan age.

Romantic Lyric-

•  A term devised by the American scholar M. H. Abrams in his essay ‘Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric’  to denote an extended lyric poem of description and serious meditation, as practiced by some of the English Romantic poets.
• Abrams justified this new term on the grounds that although several examples are called odes, others are not, despite exhibiting the ode's expected serious meditative development.

Answer 2

Answer:

Lyric during the age of Elizabethan time featured imagination and intentions.

Elizabethan lyrics gave focus on creativity, the use of metaphors, repetition, puns and paradoxes. The metaphor is lyrically used to compare women to objects of rare and exotic beauty. The repition exists so as to develop and deepen the theme of the poetry. The use of puns existed so as to develop a play on words given many words.

Romantic lyric:- on the otherhand, romantic lyric include the impression of emotions, personal freedom, interests in the supernatural, a celebration of the goodness of humanity, use of common language etc. are the main features of the romantic lyrics.