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which of the following are common forms of lyric poetry?

ballad
epic
ode
sonnet

Ode and Sonnet are forms of lyric poetry. Options three and four are correct.

Lyric poetry constitytes a formal form of poetry which conveys personal emotions or feelings, commonly narrated in the first person.  

A sonnet is a poem in a particular form which emerged in Italy and was created by Giacomo da Lentini.

An ode is a sort of lyrical stanza. It constitutes an elaborately structured poem which praises an event or individual, depicting nature intellectually and emotionally.

hm, switch the relative; nominative and indefinite; objective ? not too bright in the knowledge of the english.

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human