Abstract
This study investigates a literary work, a poem, from a linguistic framework. The aim of this study is to reveal the meanings found in William Wordsworth’s poem ‘Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known’ from systemic stylistic analysis in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics and Verbal Art Semiotics. The data were collected by library study and analyzed with a descriptive, deconstructive method and content analysis with an intrinsic objective approach. This result of the study proves that the subject matter of this poem is ‘the poet rode a horse to Lucy’s cottage from the rice of evening till the drop of the bright moon”. The deep level of meaning refers to the last clause complex ‘O that is a mercy, to myself I cried If Lucy should be dead.’ The deeper level of meaning of this poem is about ‘the death of a young girl named Lucy’, and finally, the deepest level or the theme of this poem is about ‘death is a natural part of life cycle.’
Highlights
The purpose of the study is to analyze William Wordsworth’s poem ‘Strange fits of passions have I known from systemic stylistic analysis in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics and Verbal Art Semiotics
The poem is analyzed on the strata of semiotic systems of language, and secondly, it is analyzed on the strata of the semiotic system of verbal arts
Parataxis is the linking of equal clauses, which are represented by the Arabic numerical notation: 1, 2, 3, etc
Summary
Text is a language that is functional or language that is doing some job in some context (Halliday and Hasan, 1989: 1). Text may occur in a piece of spoken, written, or signed discourse for the purposes of analysis (Nunan, 1993: 6). Halliday (2014) suggests that written language is used for action, information, and entertainment. Zhang and Pramoolsook (2019) suggest that text can be in the form of academic work such as theses, while Radzi, Bakar, and Hamid (2021) claim that text can be in the form of a nonacademic version, such as the language of magazines, and in the song or music video (Darko et al l, 2022). Texts deal with the analysis of language in use. In relation to the analysis of language in use, discourse analysis is claimed to be a relevant theory to apply compared to the structural analysis of language divorced from their communication (Nunan, 1993: 7). One of the approaches is a linguistic approach which is based on systematic functional linguistics (Matthiessen, 20212, Foley, 2013)
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