An excursion into poems from the 4th century BCE to the 21st century shows that throughout diverse cultures, religions, and societies, poets have been integrating the common theme of sex into their lyrics. ... Eventually, lyrics moved from being merely words accompanied by music to lyrical language with specific prosodic and formulaic style preferences that begin to come into play within the Hellenistic and Roman periods. These alterations in verse were not the only means by which poetry began to develop; the content of lyrics had also began to modify from the epic, mythological, and legendary...

• Word Count: 1123
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Finally, at no point in time does the speaker in the poem insert himself into the lyrics. ... The poem's structure enables this reading, if only because the speaker "quotes" the lyrics, but never allows his own voice to give way to them. ...

• Word Count: 547
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It's ironic that it was in the highly-industrialized America that the author of The Waste Land abandoned urbanism, which filled practically all of his works of the 1920-es, and started writing landscape lyrics. ...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate