Download or read book Lyric Poems from Around the World: Epic Thinks Beyond Feelings written by Festus Ogunbitan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyric poems from around the world is an adaptation of history into literature for further understanding and interpreting ancient and contemporary history. Adaptation of stories in this book is based on Aristotle’s Poetics—his purgation theory for intellectual and moral purification of the soul. The plot construction is characterized with cultural icons and symbolisms of religious and spiritual practices and beliefs. Lines are constructed to explicate the impact of gender, politics, religion, law, and culture within the framework of comparative literature—philosophy, psychology, history and the art, genre or a literary movement.