Feeble female friend absorbing current feature of lyric poetry (8,7)
I believe the answer is:
pathetic fallacy
'feature of lyric poetry' is the definition.
(pathetic fallacy is a poetic device)
'feeble female friend absorbing current' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'feeble' could be 'pathetic' (I've seen this before) and 'pathetic' is present in the answer.
'female' could be 'f' (common abbreviation) and 'f' is found in the answer.
'current' could be 'ac' (alternating current) and 'ac' is located in the answer.
'friend' could be 'ally' (synonyms) and 'ally' is found within the leftover letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for pathetic fallacy that I've seen is " Anthropomorphism".)