1.   This article examines the function of deixis in a specific literary genre, the lyric poem.

2.   The relation between these elements and terms, and the lyric poem, is then discussed.

3.   In the discourse of the lyric poem it is unlikely that we can ascribe indexical meaning to symbolic elements of deictic terms.

4.   The environment of the lyric poem must, in consequence, be matched up with the features we note in the analysis.

5.   It is the interrelationship of these points that enables the analysis of deixis in the genre of the lyric poem to proceed.