Analysis of the ghazal “Ustina” and lyric poetry

Lyric is one of the three kinds of literature; the term comes from the Greek “lyre” (an instrument) because in antiquity poems were sung to the lyre. Unlike epic and drama, lyric depicts not reality but feelings and experiences in a person’s inner world, though these feelings arise from social, political or natural events. Lyrical works are mostly written in verse form – metrical, rhymed, divided into stanzas; in Uzbek poetry barmoq, aruz and free metres are widely used. For poetic purposes inversion, a changed order of sentence parts, is often used. From the early twentieth century poems in prose also appeared. Genres of classical lyric: ghazal, rubai, tuyuq, masnavi, murabba, muxammas, tarji’band; other peoples have sonnet, ode, elegy, octave, haiku and others. In judging a poem, what is said and how it is said both matter.