A Stylistic Analysis of Ode to the West Wind人才工作计划
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Abstract: Ode to the West Wind is the most famous lyric poetry of Shelley, a well-known English romantic poet. In this poem, Shelley applied many figures of speech, combined scenery-depicting and emotion-expressing. The lively rhythm, effusive emotion and profound meaning unified the form and the content. This paper tries to analyze in the following three aspects----Firstly, at phonetic level, to illustrate that this poem render atmosphere and express ideological purpo by acoustics, mainly in rhyme and pau. Secondly, at lexical level, this poem applied simile, metaphor and personification to make unreal images more specific and vivid, make flat words full of strong infection. Last, at syntactic level, from the structural analysis of the inversion, repetition and rhetorical question in this poem, we know clearer about the relationship between forms and contents.
Key Words: Phonetic level; lexical level; syntactic level; forms; contents
1 Introduction
“Using proper words in proper places, and this is the real definition of style.” From the definition of style that Swift gave. We can make a comprehension that the language expression way of a literary work is the most remarkable style. As the old Chine saying goes, “the style is the man”. By reading the words and phras of a work, it is no wonder that we can guess the creating time and author of the work. For instance, the writing style of Elizabethan Age is full of passion and romantic color, and integrated and unified in structure. The style of Hemingway is clear, conci and simple in ntence structure.
But we cannot treat different things as the same; we don’t exclude the possibility that authors in different times may have similar writing style. Actually, since the stylistics came into being, there is no unified definition of style. Many experts and scholars tried to give a definition of style from their own rearch fields. Simply speaking, there are two rearch objects of style—one is the ideological contents of literary works; the other is linguistic feature of style. That is to say, it mainly refers to forms and contents.
Contents are the thoughts and view of author. Forms include grammar, vocabulary, rhetor
ic devices and so on, i.e. linguistic phenomenon. Experts argued about the relationship between forms and contents all the time. Generally speaking, early stylists emphasized the rearch of language forms rather than contents, such as, both “way of writing” and “mode of expression” show the paration of forms and contents. But later, people are more and more likely emphasize the impartibility between them. Then, what’s the relationship between literary works and stylistics? Like a literary work can analyze in different angles, the analytical methods of stylistics are different. The variety of problem analysis comes from the influence of the linguistics and literary criticism. Until now, literature text is the most common materials of problem analysis. Stylistic analysis depends mainly on text itlf.
短剑诗歌大全Most stylistic analysis is not only for the purpo of simply analyzing the characteristics of text itlf, but to show the function on explaining texts, or combine literature effects with language caus. From all above, we can draw a conclusion that stylistics mainly refers to the analysis of text and the application of language, that is, stylistic analysis means the combination of thoughts and language features of the authors. This paper tries to analyze
蚌埠医学院是几本Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind in phonetic, lexical and syntactic Level.
2 The Phonetic Level
撩妹的话Compared with other literary forms, poetry pays more attention to the musicality. Different from other authors that u languages to express information, poets not only express meaning with words, but also convey sound. The musicality of poetry is so important that musicality becomes one of the indispensable conditions of definition of poetry. The music of poetry is that poets combine rhythm, rhyme and words, in the purpo of foiling the atmosphere of poetry, enhancing the emotional rendering of poetry and giving readers the enjoyment of beauty. And the musicality of poetry is mainly showed in rhyme and meter. While analyzing poetry, voice is always an important standard. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind晨间日记的奇迹, tidy in meters, strong in rhythm, shows out the charm of music. Thus, achieve the purpo of rendering atmosphere and express mind by acoustics.
带高的成语2.1 Rhyme
The lines of the whole poem mainly conform to the iambic pentameter which is the most common rhyme in this poem. This kind of rhyme is cadenced and full of musicality. Except rhymes, this poem u many alliterations, like in the first line of the first stanza in Chapter one, “O Wild West Wind”, in the cond stanza, “wintry”, in the third stanza, “where, winged, within” all alliterate in mivowel. This kind of rhyme sounds like west wine sweeping from your ears, express the objects vivid and visual.团旗飘扬
2.2 Pau
Every languages and styles have paus. However, paus in poetry are more obvious and systemic than pro. English paus are related to lines of poetry and rhythms. Different pau forms have different literary styles. In English, there are at least four silent pau forms. Poet ud many intermediate stops, means pau in the middle of the line. For example, at the beginning:
