Stylistic Analysis: “To—” by Peter Shelley

Language through Poetry A stylistic Analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelleys To A Stylistic Paper Presented to The module of the Department of English Institute of Arts and Sciences Far Eastern University manilla In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirement for the Course Eng C 31Introduction to Stylistics Osabel, Julla C. Panis, Kimberly Nicole S. October, 2012 I. Reaction and its effects on you II. Summary of the text editionual matter Percy Bysshe Shelleys To is champion of his lyrical songis a poesy utilise to pack feelingsideally of the Romantic Era.In his poem, the poem is almost an unrequited necka term that is handlingd when one person has strong feelings towards other that is not reciprocated. Or in other quarrel, someone is in do with someone else who is not interested. It is also about realistic and complicated love, which mean that the persona of the poem wants to express his emotions towards the addressee solely he feargond to show because in reality, he knew tha t it is impossible for them to be together, thus, this depicts the personas complicated feelings or emotions and the reality of their relationship to each other.The poem illustrates farewell and goodluck to the addressee. To summarize the poem, it is about a man who is in love with someone else or he secretly in love with, who is not interested. He wants to express his feelings to the addressee simply he feared to express it, due to his complicated emotions, he chose not to declare his emotions because in reality, the addressee will not love him back. Instead of obvious insist his feelings towards the addressee, the man shows farewell and goodluck to the person he loved most. III. Stylistic AnalysisA. Stylistic roosters Phonology Phonology is the study of how with child(p)s are organized and used in natural languages. It has a phonological system of a language includes, an enrolment of kick the buckets and their features, and rules which specify how healthfuls interact with each other. In other words, Phonology is erect one of several aspects of language. It is related to other aspects such as phonetics, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics (Sil, 2004). Hence, in Stylistic summary, Phonology is one of the suited units of abridgment in poetry.Basic good for you(p) copys go devices are resources used by poets to express and emphasize the essence or experience of poetry through the skilful use of sound. after(prenominal) all, poets are toilsome to use a focused bl last of sound and imagery to form an emotional response. The words and their order should evoke images, and the words themselves have sounds, which can reinforce or otherwise clarify those images. survive patterns have different elements that show the nature of poetry, and these are the following 1. head poesy C-V-CAlliteration is the repetition of the same letter or sounds at the beginning of twain or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals. e. g Dewdrops dancing on the drifting sparge made for a dreary day. 2. Assonance C-V-C Assonance is the repetition of vowel sound sounds in nearby words. It is used to reinforce the nitty-grittys of words or to chasten the mood. e. g Try to light the fire. 3. Consonance C-V-C Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds by not vowel sounds. e. g Some mammals are clammy. 4. twist Rhyme C-V-CReverse Rhyme it is the repetition of consonant and vowel sounds which happen at the beginning. e. g brainless, bracelet, brakeless 5. Para poesy C-V-C Pararhyme is the repetition of of basic and the last consonant sounds. e. g flit and brat 6. Rhyme C-V-C Rhyme is the repetition of similar sounds. In poetry, the most common kind of rhyme is the end rhyme, which occurs at the end of dickens or more lines. It is usually identified with lower case letters, and a new letter is used to identify each new end sound. e. g I saw a fairy in the wood, He was dressed all in green. He drew his sword darn I just s excessivelyd,And realized Id been seen. 7. Repetition is anything that is repeated. e. g goodnight goodnight, parting clipping is such a sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight gutter it be morrow Romeo and Juliet, W. Shakespeare These sounds or elements of sounds are used by the poets to convey the meaning of the text. In this procedure, the poet or author strengthen the vividness of the imagery of the poem to discern its effects or significance of the text. Sound Symbolism Sound symbolisation is the study of the direct relationship between the sound of an remark and its meaning (Hinton, 1999).Sound symbolism is persistent among the worlds languages. Furthermore, sound symbolism plays a significant role in language, especially at the affectional level. Essential to the study of cognitive poetics is the concept of sound symbolism, which has been defined otherwise by different authors but here refers to cases in which a sound unit such as a phoneme, syllable, feature, or ton e is express to go beyond its linguistic function as a contrastive, non-meaning-bearing unit, to straightway express some kind of meaning (Nuckolls,1999).Jespersen (1922) made the claims that sounds that are implicative of meaning (which he claims happens through association, not because a sound intrinsically has a specific meaning) processs words more fit to survive and prove them considerable help in their struggle for existence. Mithun (1982) notes that, in many a(prenominal) languages, words for noises, animal cries, mental states, physical states, and actions, termed by Fudge communicatory vocabulary, seem particularly resistant to regular phonetic change.She goes on to give the specific example of Iroquoian languages, where expressive equipment casualty are characterized by special syntactic, morphological, and phonological patterns. Expressive vocabulary and taboo words chase away sounds that do not occur elsewhere. She also claims that expressive vocabulary in Iroqu oian languages is imitative and therefore resistant to phonological change. While she does not make specific claims about certain sounds being related to certain meanings, her selective information suggest that phonemes do have a relationship to meaning in Iroquoian ideophones, but that relationship may be imitative rather than iconic or symbolic.The significance of sound, sound patterns and sound symbolism is that in terms of writing texts, particularly poetry, it helps the poets or writers convey the message of the text in implicit manner. This may add to the aesthetic effects of writing poetry while on the readers, the advantage is that, it helps them to understand, appreciate and feel the emotions of the text that the poet is trying to convey. Every sounds of the text has its meaning, whether it describe or gives emphasis to the text. B. Stylistic Tool/ Discussion of coding In this short phonological analysis it begins with the analysis of the sound pattern of the poem.In each s ound pattern, it has shaded area where it shows the comprehensibility of the analysis after that, the researchers tabulated it to find the frequency and percentage form the least deed of sound pattern used up to the most number of sound pattern used. Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Rhyme and Repetition To - BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too wrong disdained For thee to disdain it One hope is too like despair For worry to smother, And pity from thee more dear Than that from another. I can give not what men call love,But wilt thou accept not The idolisation the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The subjection to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow? As can be seen in the text, the most number of shaded sound patterns belongs to Rhyme. As rhyme pattering is concerned, deuce types of rhyme to be distinguished. First, in the first stanz a of the text, the shaded riming words are rhyme has several syllables and the emphasize rhyming syllable, which means that this type of rhyme is effeminate (Latham, 2010).While on the scrap stanza, same as in first stanza of the text, the shaded rhyming words are in feminine type expect from the first line of the 2nd stanza. (love), thus, it shows the masculine rhymesingle stressed syllable (Costa,2000). The least number of sound pattern used in the text is the Consonance. The sound /t/ occur once in the first and second line of the 2nd stanza. In this two lines practically all the consonants are plosives. To them is generally associated a sound of harshness and hardness (Costa,2000). The use of one masculine rhyme in text depicts the persona of the poem which is man, while the remaining feminine rhymes depict the addressee, which is woman. The connection of those two types of rhymes that were distinguished in the text is that, the man, who is in love with the addressee (woman) , but the addressee know nothing about the mans feeling towards her. The use of one consonance in the text, illustrates the volume of hardness of the feelings to the persona to express is least. Therefore, it shows the personas attitude which is fearful of expressing his thoughts to the addressee and due to this, it is explained suitable for the beginning of the poemunrequited love.Figure 1. Sound Pattern Percentage Sound Pattern Frequency Percentage (%) Consonance 1 5 Assonance 3 16 Alliteration 4 21 Repetition 4 21 Rhyme 7 37 TOTAL 19 100 As revealed by the number of percentage of the sound pattern used in the poem, Rhyme has the most number of percentages. This shows that rhyme stanzas are used in lyrical poetry. Traditionally, in romantic era, lyrical poetry use rhymed stanzas to convey or express strong feelings thus, the significant use of the it is that, it reveals the nuclear fusion reaction of sound and sense in the poem.