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In general terms, by lyrical it will be designated to everything related to the lyrical or to the poetry own for him singing in which predominates and highlights the feelings Y emotions from the author.

But also, by lyrical, the gender literary to which the works, generally structured in verse, correspond and belong, mainly express the feelings of the author and are aimed at awakening in the listener or reader analogous feelings. All the emotions or feelings that the author expresses will revolve around an object of his affection and esteem, which turns out to be his greatest source of inspiration..

It has received the name of lyric because in ancient Greece this genre was sung and the musical instrument through which the music It was called Lira and then its name came from there.

The traditional form that this type of genre acquires is the verse sung in the first person, the verb tenses, past, present and future tend to be confused and through of him, as we said, the deepest feelings, emotions, moods, love states, among other personal issues, closely linked to the affected.

This genre does not have its own meter or rhythm, but the poet will make use of those that seem most appropriate to express his feelings in a better way.

It includes the ode, the song, the ballad, the elegy, the sonnet and all those pieces of theater that are meant to be sung, such as operas and lyrical dramas.

Among the components of lyrical language, the following stand out: lyrical speaker (the one who expresses all the feelings in the poem about an object), the lyrical object (It is the entity that awakens the feelings of the poet), the reason lyrical (the subject of the lyrical work) and the attitude lyric (the way through which the speaker relates his emotions and that can occur in three ways: enunciative, apostrophic and pathic).