Language through Poetry: A Stylistic Analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “To ---“

A Stylistic Paper Presented to
The Faculty of the Department of English
Institute of Arts and Sciences
Far Eastern University
Manila

In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirement for the Course
Eng C 31—Introduction to Stylistics

Osabel, Julla C.
Panis, Kimberly Nicole S.

October, 2012

I. Reaction and it’s effects on you

II. Summary of the Text Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “To ---“ is one of his lyrical poetry—is a poem used to express feelings—ideally of the Romantic Era. In his poem, the poem is about an unrequited love—a term that is used when one person has strong feelings towards another that is not reciprocated. Or in
She goes on to give the specific example of Iroquoian languages, where expressive terms are ‘characterized by special syntactic, morphological, and phonological patterns’. Expressive vocabulary and taboo words contain sounds that do not occur elsewhere. She also claims that expressive vocabulary in Iroquoian 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 data 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 sound pattern, it has shaded area where it shows the comprehensibility of the analysis after