Ways Of Things Research Articles

Patient experience on self-management support among primary care patients with diabetes and hypertension.

ObjectiveTo determine the extent of self-management support (SMS) provided to primary care patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and hypertension and its associated factors.DesignCross-sectional survey conducted between April and May 2017.SettingForty public clinics in Malaysia.ParticipantsA total of 956 adult patients with T2D and/or hypertension were interviewed.Main Outcome MeasuresPatient experience on SMS was evaluated using a structured questionnaire of the short version Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care instrument, PACIC-M11. Linear regression analysis adjusting for complex survey design was used to determine the association of patient and clinic factors with PACIC-M11 scores.ResultsThe overall PACIC-M11 mean was 2.3(SD,0.8) out of maximum of 5. The subscales’ mean scores were lowest for patient activation (2.1(SD,1.1)) and highest for delivery system design/decision support (2.9(SD,0.9)). Overall PACIC-M11 score was associated with age, educational level and ethnicity. Higher overall PACIC-M11 ratings was observed with increasing difference between actual and expected consultation duration [β = 0.01; 95% CI (0.001, 0.03)]. Better scores were also observed among patients who would recommend the clinic to friends and family [β = 0.19; 95% CI (0.03, 0.36)], when health providers were able to explain things in ways that were easy to understand [β = 0.34; 95% CI (0.10, 0.59)] and knew about patients’ living conditions [β = 0.31; 95% CI (0.15, 0.47)].ConclusionsOur findings indicated patients received low levels of SMS. PACIC-M11 ratings were associated with age, ethnicity, educational level, difference between actual and expected consultation length, willingness to recommend the clinic and provider communication skills.

‘Multiplying owners, not artworks’: some retrospective reflections on the intention and reception of Eduardo Chillida’s sculptures in public space

Cities and their spaces are changing. That is the way of things. But what will the future hold for the legacy of public art? Over the past fifteen years, debates on art in public space have once ag...

Towards individualized psychiatric practice: The legacy of neurotherapeutics

In 1997, Freeman Dyson postulated two categories of scientific revolution in his book Imagined Worlds . One kind is a concept-driven revolution, allowing us to explain old things in ways; another kind is tool-driven revolution, allowing us to discover new things that have to be explained. Twenty years later, this perspective still sheds light on the emerging therapeutics in clinical practice. According to the annual report of the American Psychological Association (APA), prevalence of brain disorders is expected to rise tremendously over the coming decades. Taking dementia as an example, with rapid population aging in China, Alzheimers Disease (AD) is expected to have profound impacts on the individuals and society. At present, there are no effective pharmacological treatments to halt or slow the progression of AD. Recent evidence found that non-pharmacological interventions, such as transcranial brain stimulation, are able to improve the cognitive functions and alleviate the psychiatric symptoms. However, given the limited studies, less is known about the underlying mechanisms and the potential tailored treatment with individualized features considered. From the perspective of bioenergetics, brain disorders are due to the disturbance of metabolism or energy, such as entropy. One of the most profound links between metabolism and brain disorders is the dysfunction of mitochondria. Given the responsibility in producing ATP for energy, mitochondria use electrons and protons from molecular oxygen to reduce water and generate proton-motive force to produce ATP from ADP. Because the functioning of our brains only relies on the ATP mitochondria produced, thus when this process is impaired, a variety of brain disorders can occur. From the perspective of physics, four types of energy, including magnetic, electricity, ultrasound and light, can be transformed to the cutting-edge stimulation technologies for exploring brain functions and enhancing the non-pharma- ceutical therapeutics for brain disorders. In this review, we summarized the recent progress of the modality-driven brain stimulations and the state-of-art utility in psychiatric practice. The main interest will focus on the clinical applications of transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial electrical stimulation, transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation, transcranial infrared laser stimulation and deep brain stimulation. Except for the empirical evidence, we will also point out the major limitations in the current brain stimulation studies. The framework comprises three innovative points: (1) Heterogeneity: Due to the heterogeneity within clinical population, causal inference with observational data in medical science is nearly impossible without strong assumptions. (2) Lack of key parameters: Scalp-to-cortex distance (SCD), as one of the most important and fundamental parameters of brain imaging and stimulation, has been highlighted in the newly updated guidelines. (3) Monitoring and reporting of the side effects induced by brain stimulation: several reports have mentioned the skin burns, pain and headache during the treatment of brain stimulation. However, we still have no standardized protocol to monitor and record the potential side effects. Taken together, this review introduces an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms of brain stimulation and its applications and future directions in individualized psychiatric practice.

INCORPORATING THE BUDDHA’S THREEFOLD TRAINING WITH MANAGEMENT SCIENCE THEORIES

ABSTRACTThe acceleration of the evolution of economic culture through scientific development affords the opportunity to re-examine cross-domain dialogue and research in Buddhism and other disciplines. The concepts of threefold training in Buddhism (i.e. precepts, samadhi, and wisdom) were used as data items to generate data values and thereby convey the semantic nature of these terms. A systems analysis approach that can adequately incorporate hermeneutics into management science was employed to present the research topic. This study illustrates the relationship between a management activity (i.e. its effectiveness and efficiency, and the mechanism used) and a Buddhist activity (i.e. threefold training). This relationship was used to establish a body- and mind-transcending system comprising two subsystems: a service subsystem that adopts the perspective of management science by emphasising the ‘way of things’ and a submission subsystem that adopts a Buddhist perspective by stressing the ‘way of people’. The main finding of this study is that the two subsystems are characterised by identical Buddhist concepts.

Agency regarding our reasons

ABSTRACTHow much control do we have over our reasons for action? Not much, but some. We all have reasons to avoid pain and not to inflict it on others. What explains our shared reasons? On an externalist account, reasons are grounded in values. All reasons are external to agency. This ensures that reasons are universal, so it is an attractive feature of moral and prudential reasons. However, when our reasons differ this is less attractive. In some cases, it seems like something internal to the agent makes all the difference. There are many valuable things, but an agent can only come to care about a small set of those things. Consider your reasons that stem from your love of philosophy or punk rock. Here it seems we make some reasons our reasons by becoming committed to them. I call these our agential reasons. We express our agency by coming to care about some things in ways not required by rationality. Unlike, matters of taste though, these are not bare preferences we just find ourselves having. Rather these concerns are cultivated over time. We express rational agency by incorporating particular values into our lives.

Impact of Information System on Transformation of Human Resource Performance: An Exploratory Study in Oromia Radio and Television Organization

In the last few decades, emerging hyper-competitive era has increased the demand of information system and technology on human resource management for competitiveness. The revolution of information system and technology is completely and rapidly redefining the way of things are done in almost every field of human activity. Many firms are looking for utilizing the two elements (human resources and information system) as strategic weapons to compete. In particular, information system is demonstrated for human resource management that referred as human resource information system (HRIS). The HRIS is an integrated system mostly used to collect data, govern, record and to deliver and present data for human resource and hence promotes and transforms appropriateness of transforming human resource performance. This paper focuses on the impact of information system on transformation of human resource performance, the case of Oromia radio and television organization in Ethiopia. Both literature studies and interviews were done in this study to accrue information.

We're on a road to nowhere: Culture and adaptation to the environment are driving human evolution, but the destination of this journey is unpredictable.

It is tempting to believe that humans, owing to their technological prowess, have elevated themselves above the laws of biology and escaped natural selection. Indeed, some think that humans have stopped evolving at all. Another view holds that Homo sapiens has not isolated itself from the influences of the physical and biological world but that our species is just a special, extreme case of niche constructors. This view is based on the so‐called Niche Construction Theory, a development within evolutionary biology to describe how humans—and many other organisms—modify their environment—or niche—in a way that alters environmental pressures and therefore natural selection. Thus, rather adapting to a pre‐existing environment, “organisms drive environmental change and organism‐modified environments subsequently select organisms” (https://synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk/niche/niche-construction-and-evolution/) (Box 1). ### Culture‐driven evolution “[All] organisms adapt to their environment, and in humans much of our environment is defined by our culture. Hence, cultural change can actually spur on adaptive evolution in humans”, wrote evolutionary biologist Alan Templeton at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA. [1]. Following this argument, culture, social learning and technology have not replaced biological adaptation. Rather, human evolution is driven by the environmental conditions we created ourselves through culture, a process that has been accelerating since the beginning of agriculture and urban civilization. In other words, cultural niche construction is a major cause of recent human evolution. However, there are other factors than natural selection, such as genetic drift and gene flow, that influence human evolution [1]. Nonetheless, even the effects of these random, non‐adaptive forces on human genetic variation are somehow altered by cultural trends, namely increased urbanization and greater mobility. As a consequence, drift is diminishing and gene flow is increasing, a process that would eventually culminate into a single “species‐wide” gene pool characterized by high levels of genetic variation. > [C]ulture, …

Creaturely Shifts: contemporary animal crossings through the alluring trace of the Romantic sublime

This paper considers the transformative use of the sublime aesthetic in two contemporary Gothic novels, Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains (1969) and Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things (2015). My exploration begins with the Romantic sublime, defined here as a mode of perception created through art that is concerned with the awe-inspiring, the frightening and the ineffable. Sublime metamorphosis extends the Romantic sublime alongside the more fragmentary postmodern sublime through posthumanism. Sublime metamorphoses occur in these two speculative novels when their protagonists pause in the moment of sublime arrest in response to nonhuman others. Such moments create new embodied potentialities that may reshape human/nonhuman relations. When Carter’s central protagonist Marianne considers her position in moments of terror, she improves her marginalised status. She pushes through the boundaries of her species and the limitations of an injured world of mutation and brutality, evolving, in the end, to Tiger Lady. In Wood’s novel, the entrapped Yolanda shifts from prey to predator to a new kind of self-determination that frees her from her human confinement. Yolanda’s friend Verla follows with her own radical transmutation. In these novels sublime metamorphosis resists ideas of human exceptionality and troubles typologies that separate humans from other creatures. This approach may be of interest to creative writers concerned with more generative relations with the world’s nonhuman creatures. My own creative efforts are learning from such work.

Entering writers’ rooms: reading interviews with novelists

ABSTRACTThis paper examines the literary interview as a form, and as a source of research material for creative writing and literary studies. In the article, I discuss theoretical and methodological approaches to conversations with writers and the usefulness of the interview for creative writing scholars. Novelist Charlotte Wood published The Writer’s Room: Conversations about Writing (2016) soon after her award-winning fifth novel, The Natural Way of Things (2015), appeared; the two books were constructed at around the same time. Through an interview I conducted with Wood about The Writer’s Room and her reasons for speaking to contemporary writers, I assess the statements Wood makes in the introduction to her collection and explore the texture of literary interviews. The article examines what information interviews provide about an individual writer’s working methods and looks at the emotions or affect around authors’ writing lives as a means of gauging the utility of the interview for scholars and writers. I argue that while the apparent aim of the interview is to obtain insights into an author’s praxis, related objectives may be to build connections between authors and their readers, and to augment communities of writers.

DECLARATION OF INTENT

1 6 Y D E C L A R A T I O N O F I N T E N T C L I V E J A M E S My poems are the balladry of cavaliers Composed in the lost cause that was the King’s, And if from time to time their ink seems blurred with tears It is because the way of things Has gone against the haughty confidence That once allied sweet music to sound sense, So now their rhymes and rhythms count as frills and rings. My poems are the closing words of heretics Burnt to a cinder and their dust dispersed. A fierce belief that melts to stain the courtyard bricks Proves its sincerity at first, But fades in sunlight as the winning side Writes history and denies even the pride Of those who lost, the cruelty that hurts them worst. My poems written now that I must take my leave Give thanks good fortune saw me kindly borne To this departure point, and therefore when they grieve It is for anyone they mourn But me. I still recall, when I’m alone, Children of my age marked with stars and thrown Into the night and fog, leaves by the tempest torn. My poems take defeat for granted, but they say, Gallant or gaunt: if we can choose to die We have been blessed to live. It never came my way, The random flail of chance, and why My life must end is known to me. In view Of these facts, I take care that what I do Pays back the luck with which I lived to see time fly. 1 7 R My poems sing of life. Though death is also there In how they crystallize an emphasis Like a tango maestro pausing, they do not despair: They just acknowledge the abyss Awaiting us. It brings finality To what we were. It will do that for me Soon now. My poems prove that I accepted this. ...

Exploring the Spirituality of a School Chapel: Space, Silence and the Self

Exploring the Spirituality of a School Chapel: Space, Silence and the Self Colin Heber-Percy (bio) The school chapel I have in mind is tucked into the eaves of an ugly science block belonging to a minor public school in England.1 As a boy in my early teens I regularly chose to sit here, dispirited, confused, and unhappy. The room is unmemorable (though I remember it clearly). Carpet tiles, white-painted wooden rafters and joists, dusty dormer windows, a few Christian images mounted on board warping in the damp air, a simple metal cross set in a block of lead. This chapel is not the school’s main place of worship; it is rarely visited, a forgotten room, up a flight of concrete stairs. I want to use this chapel as an embarkation point for exploring how a renewed emphasis on space as distinct from place, and on silence as the ground of prayer might alert us to different ways of thinking about spirituality, the self and the sublime. I am setting out on this exploration purposely without a definition of spirituality, in the hope that the outlines of a definition will emerge, inductively as it were, as we survey the territory. Lacking the perspective that would enable me to call into question the baleful norms and practices of the school (which I hated), I accepted isolation and being at odds with the world as “the way of things.” So here is the first tentative step on a spiritual journey: the chapel was a retreat from the world. It was a place to be quiet, to be alone with my thoughts in the near silence. But over time, and as I began to return to the spot regularly, I realized this was a retreat to something as well. The silence spoke to me, or tenderly whispered: With that deep hush subduing all Our words and works that drown The tender whisper of Thy call, As noiseless let Thy blessing fall As fell Thy manna down.2 I sensed in that chapel a tectonic alignment, or realignment, of some fundamental aspects of myself: [End Page 215] Click for larger view View full resolution Absences IV © Javier Matoses [End Page 216] Immensity is within ourselves. It is attached to a sort of expansion of being that life curbs and caution arrests, but which starts again when we are alone.3 What Gaston Bachelard here calls “immensity,” I am calling “space.” It is inside ourselves, but it also involves an expansion of our very mode of being: space expanding into space. Constraining this movement, according to Bachelard, are “life” and “caution” or what John Whittier terms our “words and works” drowning out God’s call. Over the course of the following essay, I will understand “life” and “caution” in terms of place, of our phenomenological reception of the particular. Alone in the chapel I was momentarily able to put aside this “life” with its words and works. The silence of the chapel was a resonating chamber; it was the deep hush, the noiselessness of falling manna. And the walls of the nondescript chapel were somehow infinitely capacious. The classrooms downstairs were places for delivering information and for learning understood as absorption of facts. The chapel was the opposite: not a place at all, but a space for expanding myself into the silence and unknowable immensity of God. The chapel, I thought, somehow allows God in. This room is all door. In a sense, it is nowhere. “Where shall I be, then?” you ask. “Nowhere, by what you tell me!” Now truly, you are right: that is where I would have you, because nowhere in the body is everywhere in the spirit.4 I Of course being in place is a non-negotiable aspect of human existence: you are reading this at a desk, on a train, in your study, in the bath. Being is always “being here” or “being there.” Martin Heidegger termed the necessarily qualified nature of our being—Dasein, “being there.”5 To ponder place, therefore, is to bring to consciousness a necessary component of our being; the placedness of a given experience is what the Stoics called a...

Jungle

Jungle Gladys Swan (bio) When I was a kid I hardly had a name. It felt like I was kin to animals. Maybe that was on account of something you couldn’t give a name to—a wildness that lived in us both. There wasn’t a whole lot then to tie me to the human world. I couldn’t remember anyone’s calling me by a syllable that drew me to the sound, made me want to take it on. Oh, I might hear “Hey you,” or “Get on over here, you little stinkweed.” This from the one who stood in for a father, if he stood anywhere at all. Not that I ever called him Daddy. A mouth—that’s what he was—all scrunched up like he’d bit off too much of life and wanted to spit out the taste before he choked on it. His name was Priam Gillespie. He hated that name, the way people pronounced it Pry-am or Pree-am. Every once in a while somebody would say, “What the hell kind of name of that?” “It’s what comes of having a librarian for a mother,” he’d explain. “Damn her hide anyway.” Every once in a while, maybe in a store or the bank, somebody would call him Mr. Gillespie, and I’d look around for the stranger I thought they were speaking to. Sometimes he called me Miss or Missy. “Don’t give me any of that guff, Missy.” Or Toots when I was coming on to being a woman. “Oh, so now you’re getting ready to strut your stuff, eh, Toots?” I wanted to kick him. Somewhere there was a birth certificate with my paper name. But it just fell by the wayside—it had nothing to do with me. Whenever somebody spoke it, I didn’t look around or say a word. “What’s your name, honey?” some folks would ask, and when they saw a blank, they’d smile down into my face, as if getting closer would turn on the light bulb, and ask, “What’s your dolly’s name?” It wasn’t a real doll, just a sock with stuffing in it, and button eyes and a mouth sewed on. “Name,” I’d tell them. “Name—that’s her name?” That would tickle them all right. And Priam would say, “She’s just ornery—always has been.” Maybe Ornery should have been my name. [End Page 75] “Just wait till I can send you over to Texas,” he’d say every once in a while, like he was trying to get even with me, “and let that mama of yours do what she was created for.” And then, under his breath, “If she’d quit running around long enough to do anything useful.” A voice from long ago ran like a tune through my head. I could remember someone holding my hand: I could almost feel the way it curled around mine—warm and a little moist—even when I couldn’t attach a person to it. Was that my mama? I couldn’t see her—I was never sure. I really couldn’t remember any mama at all. Seems like I’d just happened in this place, like a scrap of paper blown in by the wind. Every once in a while I’d ask when I was going to Texas, but Priam would pull a face and say, “Mind your business. I got troubles enough as it is.” It took me a while to get a name, as I’ll tell you, and it happened in a way I never expected. That seems the way of things—full of surprises. My life started changing when I was about eleven—when Priam got hold of a piece of land across the highway. Took it for collateral from a Mexican family who’d got into his clutches. I used to play horse with their kids, and Carolina and I liked to braid each other’s hair. Hers was long and black and glossy, and I loved to get my fingers in it. Sometimes I’d eat dinner in their adobe hut—tortillas...

Signal and Symbol: How State and Local Policies Address Data-Informed Practice

Numerous actors influence how educational policies play out in practice, but this does not mean that policies themselves are without power. Policies are crafted and enacted in part because they serve as signal and symbol: How a policy is formally codified establishes expectations, exerts norming influence, and catalyzes shifts in how issues are framed. But what happens when or if a set of policies do these things in ways that misalign with or incompletely reflect research? In this article, we leverage the issue of educational data use to examine how state and local policies may simultaneously symbolize a commitment to school improvement and signal expectations that fail to align with the broader evidence base. We discuss the implications of this disjoint for policymakers and make recommendations for ways in which policy actors can use the signaling power of policy to frame expectations in ways that more closely align with research.

Impact of stuttering severity on adolescents’ domain-specific and general self-esteem through cognitive and emotional mediating processes

PurposeThe theory that self-esteem is substantially constructed based on social interactions implies that having a stutter could have a negative impact on self-esteem. Specifically, self-esteem during adolescence, a period of life characterized by increased self-consciousness, could be at risk. In addition to studying mean differences between stuttering and non-stuttering adolescents, this article concentrates on the influence of stuttering severity on domain-specific and general self-esteem. Subsequently, we investigate if covert processes on negative communication attitudes, experienced stigma, non-disclosure of stuttering, and (mal)adaptive perfectionism mediate the relationship between stuttering severity and self-esteem. MethodsOur sample comprised 55 stuttering and 76 non-stuttering adolescents. They were asked to fill in a battery of questionnaires, consisting of: Subjective Screening of Stuttering, Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents, Erickson S-24, Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, and the Stigmatization and Disclosure in Adolescents Who Stutter Scale. ResultsSEM (structural equation modeling) analyses showed that stuttering severity negatively influences adolescents’ evaluations of social acceptance, school competence, the competence to experience a close friendship, and global self-esteem. Maladaptive perfectionism and especially negative communication attitudes fully mediate the negative influence of stuttering severity on self-esteem. Group comparison showed that the mediation model applies to both stuttering and non-stuttering adolescents. ConclusionWe acknowledge the impact of having a stutter on those domains of the self in which social interactions and communication matter most. We then accentuate that negative attitudes about communication situations and excessive worries about saying things in ways they perceive as wrong are important processes to consider with regard to the self-esteem of adolescents who stutter. Moreover, we provide evidence that these covert processes also need to be addressed when helping adolescents who are insecure about their fluency in general.

From responsibility to accountability: Working creatively with distributed agency in office energy metering and management

In homes and offices across the UK, increasingly sophisticated smart metering systems are being hailed as a crucial weapon in the fight against climate change through a focus on energy demand reduction. Using the example of Current, a multi-disciplinary project focused on energy use in large office environments, this paper reflects upon the metering process on a university campus and the challenges and opportunities that it poses for energy management. Through an exploration of the relationships between the human and non-human actors that are involved in energy consumption and metering (staff, students, radiators, data loggers, thermostats, computers and building insulation, to name but a few examples), we show that, rather than being used to critique and apportion blame for energy consumption, measurement systems which attempt to quantify that consumption can provide the opportunity to ask fresh questions about agency, responsibility and the relationships between people and things in ways that can help us work towards creative solutions for more sustainable futures.

When Religion Cannot Stop Political Crisis in the Old Western Region of Nigeria: Ikire under Historical Review.

Using historical events research approach and qualitative key informant interview, this study examined how religion failed to stop political crisis that happened in the old Western region of Nigeria. Ikire, in the present Osun State of Nigeria was used as a case study. The study investigated the incidences of killing, arson and exile that characterized the crisis in the town which served as the case study. It argued that the two prominent political figures which started the crisis failed to apply the religious doctrines of love, peace and brotherhood which would have solved the crisis before it spread to all parts of the Old Western Region of Nigeria and the entire nation. Moreover, it was also argued somewhere else in this paper that the supporters of the two prominent political figures also failed to apply the doctrines of love, peace and brotherhood as rightly preached in their individual religions which they professed. The study recommended that doctrines of love, peace and brotherhood should be allowed to prevail in solving any political crisis in the future. It considered religion as the spiritual thing which leads to the eternal, but other things as temporary that would soon give way for things eternal. Furthermore, the study also challenged the religious leaders to always wake up to their spiritual responsibility of building peace in the society, knowing surely that they are God’s ambassadors in the human society.

Authorizing the “Natives”: Governmentality, Dispossession, and the Contradictions of Rule in Colonial Zambia

British colonial rule in Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries straddled a contradiction between promoting radical social transformation and maintaining political order. This article explores the relationship between changing techniques of rule and the stability of rule; in particular, the proletarianization and dispossession of African populations and production of an extractive economy in colonial Zambia. The 1920s saw the transition from charter rule by the British South Africa Company to the Colonial Office and the end of widespread rural unrest. Using archival and secondary sources, two key interventions marked a new mode of governing and spatial reorganization of power are examined: indirect rule through Native authorities and the constitution of Native reserves. These interventions sought to rework the political landscape and align relations between men and things in ways that furthered the aims of both extractive capitalism and colonial rule. The consequences and limitations of these new forms of intervention are examined by bringing together Marxist ideas of dispossession and the contradictions of colonial rule and Foucault's work on governmental power. In the final sections, a wider set of relations and processes beyond the state that worked to produce economic forms of subjectivity are explored, before arguing that the hallmark of techniques of rule that became widespread in British colonial sub-Saharan Africa is that they stabilized dispossession and worked to resolve central contradictions of colonial rule.

Fields of dreams Four Fields Tim Dee Jonathan Cape, 2013. 288 pp.

Fields of dreams <b>Four Fields</b> <i>Tim Dee</i> Jonathan Cape, 2013. 288 pp.

The Rhetoric of Things: Historical Archaeology and Oral History

This paper examines precisely how objects assume meanings in archaeological interpretation and a dimension of everyday life and experience that exists on the fringes of self-consciousness. Archaeologists interpret the meanings of material things in ways that have often sought to erase the ambiguities of material symbolism in conventional linear narratives, but oral memories routinely struggle with the meaning of things and underscore their complex and ambiguous meanings. The paper examines how the contributors to this volume illuminate the implications of oral memories on broader material culture scholarship both within and beyond historical archaeology.

The Shelleyan Stylistics

Style in literature has been the most unique way of expressing the authors' ideas. It is one of the authors' identities, one that distinguishes a given author from another. Style plays a distinctive role in the language of literature. It is another way of things. This is to say that both what is and how is said - which are studied under stylistics- exist in any work of literature, that both are not to be taken for granted, and that the vay ot saying it is often more important than the thing said. Consisting of twenty two lines and written by Percy Bysshe Shetley, Music was chosen as tne topic of the study. The focus of the study will be on the relation between the meanings of the poem and its style. The study Isaimed at seeing the uniqueness of the poem's style.