Lyrics are a type of literature where life is reflected through thoughts, experiences, impressions that are caused by some circumstances. All feelings and emotions are not described, but expressed. The characteristic features of the lyrics are the poetic form, rhythm. The focus is on the hero’s deep emotional experiences.
Literary scholars believe that lyrics are one of the three kinds of literature. Exists along with drama and epic. Each literary genus has a main attribute. The epic narrates events, the drama displays events in dialogs, and the lyrics subjectively and emotionally convey the author’s thoughts.
This word happened in the 19th century from the Latin "lyre". It was later borrowed in Greek, French, English, German, Italian. The word "lyrics" came to us from French. It means a kind of fiction or a collection of works related to this kind. The lyrics are the emotional elements in some work or work of the writer, this is the writer’s internal monologue, which he leads with himself.
This kind of literature covers such poetic genres: romance, elegy, song, sonnet, poem. It is said that lyrics are the soul of poetry. In its center is a specific subject - a poet, his thoughts, emotions, which make up the content of the work. Whatever the range of subjects of the writer, his individual assessment can be traced everywhere, in contrast to the epos, where what is happening is objectively depicted. Therefore, the lyric poet has the risk of being misinterpreted. A personal interpretation of one’s experiences is a position of personal affirmation. This is her strength and weakness at the same time. The depth of the poet's worldview becomes decisive in creating a lyrical work. In the 19-20 centuries, this genre began to be divided into four categories: civil, philosophical, love and landscape. In the genre of lyrics , J. Byron, F. Petrarch, A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, A. Blok wrote.
Creativity of the artist who creates poetry gives his poetic world a unique and individual look. This is what distinguishes the lyrics of Lermontov from the lyrics of Pushkin, the works of Blok from the works of Nekrasov, etc. In order to feel the features of the works of various poets, one must turn to their biography, the history of that time.
The poetry of Pushkin goes through several stages of its development. His first poems were influenced by the struggle of literary and poetic languages. In lyceum years, satirical lines and parodies emerged from the poet's pen. The lyrics of these years are devoted to friendships that tied young talents with strong ties. Pushkin's works are permeated with ideas of historical, artistic and social ideas. Love lyrics became the pinnacle of his work and, in addition, all of Russian poetry.
The emotional richness of the poetic world of A. Pushkin contained all the shades of love feelings: from a fleeting hobby and to the pangs of remorse from eternal separation. All poet poetry is permeated with moral, ethical standards, even if we are talking about treason and error. The poems of the author convey the human feeling ennobled, in which there are no random traits, but there is individuality, drama and strength.
It is necessary to perceive the works of any author with the assimilation of his genre, type, style, dimension. Only then can we understand the incomprehensible meaning of the lyrics. Ignorance of its features may lead to a misinterpretation of the meaning that the poet put into the work.