LYRICAL ATTITUDES: TYPES AND EXAMPLES - LITERATURE - 2025

The lyrical attitudes are the different ways in which the poetic speaker, also called the lyrical speaker, can assume a poem; the subject becomes an incarnate verb and vice versa. The boundary lines between the individual reciting and the verses spoken disappear.

When lyrical attitudes are fully carried out, those who observe the evocation are able to witness the actual poetic consummation. One cannot speak less intensely of this subject if it is understood that poetry is one of the most intimate manifestations of the human psyche.

Poetry is considered by some as the voice of the soul; then, the lyrical attitudes of a speaker to it declare the very essence of a human being.

When it is recited there is implied a surrender, a taking, a possession. The subject who goes and declaims does not return being the same; and the poem no longer looks the same in the eyes of those who saw it incarnate.

Types and their examples

There are three types of lyrical attitudes:

Enunciative lyrical attitude

The lyrical speaker assigns himself a narrative stance. The one who recites does it from the outside, tells what happens to the lyrical object.

This distancing does not imply an emotional break between the speaker and the poem. The "poetic self" persists, but assumes a descriptive attitude. The role of the lyrical speaker in the enunciative attitude is to shape the environment in which the lyrical object unfolds.

Despite not being the center of the plot, the lyrical speaker owes the materialization of the poem; therefore, this must be done with every resource that allows him to fully express the emotion implied by the verses he recites.

Examples

Example 1

Example 2

Here you can clearly see a poetic discourse around a lyrical subject other than the one he recites. The lyrical speaker is limited to giving life to the environment and actions, but for this he necessarily requires soaking up a strong emotional charge.

Lyrical apostrophic attitude

In this mode the lyrical speaker assumes an active position within the discourse, is part of the poem, addresses a poetic subject waiting for a response.

This presence of the speaker as an active lyrical voice, as the protagonist, increases the intensity of the speech, giving it another identity.

The apostrophic lyrical attitude, also known as appellative, is one of the poetic devices most used by writers. The speaker's interaction with that necessary "something" opens up an immense range of lyrical possibilities; the implicit thematic richness is immeasurable.

It is important to note that the lyrical object is not static, since it can interact and respond. This gives a very interesting dynamism to the apostrophic lyrical attitude.

Examples

Example 1

Example 2

“The virtue of the poets touched you.

Example 2

In both poems you can notice a self-absorbed language, a persistent melancholy, a non-correspondence. The role of the poetic speaker is more penetrating and alive; the carmine voice is flooded with absences and becomes the most heartfelt of lyrical attitudes.

Variation in lyrical attitudes

As a result of all the above, it must be taken into account that lyrical attitudes vary according to the subject, since it is about the "poetic self" manifesting itself.

Each individual has their own lyrical attitude and no one approaches a poem in the same way. Not in vain is it said among poets that the poem is not about the person who writes it, but about the person who recites it.

A poem can easily contain the three lyrical attitudes, poetry gives for that and for more. Of course, in these cases the lyrical speaker must soak up the lyrics to get the best of himself and achieve the most appropriate and heartfelt speech.

The lyrical attitudes come to represent one of the most important parts of the poetic event. They allow us to get closer to the fiber of human feeling, to the real understanding of the lyric.

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