Four years out from Pure Heroine, the "Green Light" singer is opening up about something she thought she'd never
lyricize: heartbreak.
Swinburne's balladry of the early 1860s strenuously resisted the civilizing designs of those who would
lyricize or balladize them.
Paragons of the form, their songs flood listeners' ears with an aggressive deployment of brass, especially the trombone,
lyricize urban constriction, and articulate a sense of conflicted belonging through a pan-Latino register (see Calvo Ospina).
Smith, like Day, included graphic accounts of war in her novel, but rather than '
lyricize the violence of Britain's American experience' (p.
The repetitions of "soft" and "mute"
lyricize Stephen's language while simultaneously reinforcing his silencing of Yeats.
As Florence, Kim Lindsay can belt the rock score when needed but also
lyricize it.
"Elegy," in other words, comments not only on the death of a particular girl, but on the limitations of the very poetic model prescribed to
lyricize the deceased.
And yet, here's the twist: it is she who writes the poetry, she who paints the canvases, and she who
lyricizes the songs.
Feminist film academic Tania Modleski criticises the film for making this theme so latent, arguing that it '
lyricizes life in the closet'.
Harper
lyricizes Ellison more simply but similarly: "The Big E.