Formal Structuralism and its Application in the Poem (Cacophony in Love's Tone

Abstract

This research is based on a comprehensive review of formal structuralism as an internal, textual, and analytic approach. This approach adopts a pragmatic analysis of text patterns according to a textual relationship network that inherently links text structures which are distributed into textual binaries and features, such as: comprehensiveness, formality transformations, and the internal organisation of the text. This research demonstrates how formal structuralism try to isolate literary texts from their authors, audiences and possibly all social, economic, political, philosophical, and intellectual dimensions of a text. This is because formal structuralism is based on the idea of internal and textual analysis that uses linguistic features. Formal structuralism, however, adopts a holistic and highly organized approach to analyse texts according to principles of comprehensiveness, organisation, internal transformations and movement, consensual and opposite binaries inside the text, and most importantly the autonomy of the text