poetic device: Lyric & Dramatic Poems

Lyric poems, not to be confused with song lyrics, are poems in which the poet expresses his or her emotions or feelings. This is as opposed to narrative poetry, which tells a story, or descriptive poetry. which gives a detailed description of something or someone.

Dramatic poems are lyric poems that are meant to be read aloud to express the feelings and emotions of the reader.

Can you figure out what emotions the narrator is expressing in each of these lyric poems? Try reading some of these poems out loud to see if you share their emotions.

A Centaur Goes Out Shopping
Homework, I Love You
Crazy Over Vegetables by Kenn Nesbitt and Eric Herman
Crazy Over Vegetables
A Sad and Lonely Cyclops by Kenn Nesbitt
A Sad and Lonely Cyclops
Calling all Kids by Kenn Nesbitt
Calling all Kids!
The School Year Is Over by Kenn Nesbitt
The School Year Is Over
Don't Ever Bite Your Sister by Kenn Nesbitt
Don’t Ever Bite Your Sister
I'm Super Excited by Kenn Nesbitt
I’m Super Excited
I Never Want to Go to Bed
I'b God a Code by Kenn Nesbitt
I’b God a Code
PC, PC
At History I'm Hopeless
At History I’m Hopeless
Spaghetti, Dear Spaghetti by Kenn Nesbitt
Spaghetti, Dear Spaghetti
Mirror, Mirror by Linda Knaus and Kenn Nesbitt
Mirror, Mirror
Somewhere Sometime by Kenn Nesbitt
Somewhere Sometime
I Love to Read a Mystery by Kenn Nesbitt
I Love to Read a Mystery
Moving to China
I'm Glad that I'm Me by Kenn Nesbitt
I’m Glad to Be Me
Ode on a Unicycle
Dear Summer
Elementary by Kenn Nesbitt
Elementary
Calculator, Calculator by Kenn Nesbitt
Calculator, Calculator
If I Were the Principal by Kenn Nesbitt
If I Were the Principal
Potluck Christmas by Kenn Nesbitt
Potluck Christmas