Stylistic Analysis of the Poem A Red,Red Rose

ISSN 1009-5039zw wx@overseaen.comOverseas English海外英语htp:/:/www .overseaen.comTe:+86-551-5690811 5690812Stylistic Analysis of the Poem A Red, Red Rose王莉《兰州交通大学.甘肃兰州730070)Abstract: In the Barow sense, the sysisi is the study of lerature syle. This paper will only focus on the sty'e of poety and analyze thesylistie haceities of the porm ied A Rel, Red Roe by Robert Buns. Through and alysis,s the asthere value and resons ofis pop-ularity and etermality will be revealed.Key words: sylstis; style; poetry中图分类号:1106.2文献标识码:A文章编 号1009 -5039(2012)03-0208- 021 Introductionimages in the poems, which is not easy and must be based on theThe word "style”" may have many diferent meanings and relfer.completednderstanding of the poem. Francis Bacon once saidences. According to the father of linguistics- -Saussure, he made a" History has reference to the memory, poetry to the imagination,distinction between langue and parole. The former relers to the sys-and philogophy to the reason." To apreciate a poem well, readerstem of rules common to speakers of a particular language; and themust exert his imagination to feel the poet's feel and see the poet'slatter refers to particular uses of this system or the selection from see. The last but not the least ie the analysis of the poem throughthis system, that a person or group of persons will make on this or the, sometimes, regular, in most cases, the diverging expressionsthat occasion. Thus, the style belongs to parole. It consists in choic- which are the best window for us the see the deep meaning of the po-es from the total linguistic repertoireof a particular language. In lit-m. Generally speaking, we will analyze the poem terature appreciation, "style may refer to a person's distinctive lan- netic, grammatical, lexical, syntactic, and rhetoric levels. Surely forguage habits, or the set of individual characteristics of language some special-formed poems, readers can sense the unique feelinguse. Often, it concentrates on a person's particular singular or origi- through the form of the poem itself. To undersantd a poem well,nal features of speaking or wring. Hence at the extreme end stylewhat the readers must know is the experience of the poet and undermay refer to a writer's deviations formnal relatively normal use of lan- what kincf circumstances the poem came into being.guage" (Xu 2005:7).However, as Widdowson advocated，appreaciation of poems isDiferent texts have different styles, take adverisement and le- not the priviledge of the elite, ordinary people can also understandgal document as an example, the former can use dfeet rdifferent rhetorie poems as the feling of the poets is the soul of the poem. For thedevices to make it as attractive as possible whereas the ltter must:ame poem, different people may have different understanding,be as rigorous and formnal as possible. As to literature the situation which is quite necessary and acceptable as everyone has differentis sinilar, there are great dffrences between diferent languageexperiences and dfferent insights. In this paper. 1 will just analyzeforms. In this paper, I will only focus on the style of poetry and ana-the poem A Red Red Rose by Robert Bumns :according to my ownlyze the poem A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns.understanding.2 Style of Poetry3 About Robert Burns"Taitionally, poetry has been calegorized as EPIC (which cel-Robert Burns (1759-1796) was born al Aloway, Ayshire,Sco-ebrates a figure of heroie proportions doing deeds that iluminateland, in a poor Scottish peasant's family, the eldest of seven sons.the history and character of anaion), as DRAMATIC (which tellsHe had only lwo and a half years of regualr schooling, frot 1765 toor implies a story involving dramatic tensions), and as LYRIC1767, and after that he was chienly taught by his father while he(which melodiously emphasizes the personal emotions of the poet).helped with the work on farm. He did a good deal of reading andBut whatever lype of poetry we read, it is the language of the poemknew the old Scotish songs and ballads and also some French. Bythat first atracts us." (Xu 2005:270)1775, when he was 16, he was already thprincipal lavourer on thePoems in fauct provide language for feling and aim to exercisefarm, but his interest in poetry developed and he already stratedan emotive function, to arouse the feelings of their readers. Thewriting some poetry. But the poverty seemed not to decide to leavecharacteristics of poems can be summed叩as the fllowing: com-them alone until 1786, when the poems by Burns were publishedpression- one word does thevork of several, and a simple phraseunder the tile of "Poems Chiely in the Scottish Dialect" which wascondenses a whole train of thought; extreme care in word choice;well recerived. After that, he published the section edition andfree arrangement of word order; full manipulation of sound effectsmany other poems, in which he expressed his idea on French Revo-and the manipulation of sight. (Xu 2005)lution. In 1976, he died at the early age of 37.In ppreciation of poemns, readers should pay atention to theHis poems were all short poems. many of them occasional po-中国煤化工MYHCNM HG收稿日期:2011-11-18修回 日期:2011-12-15作者简介:王莉,就职于兰州交通大学外国语学院，讲师,主要研究方向为应用语言学。208 /到既惩97 1110公。本栏目责任编辑:扬菲非2012年02月Overseas English海外英诵向前，她的努力举动即使不能抵抗社会和世俗排山倒海的力无法遏制。另一方面,她又时刻缅怀过去的人和自然和谐共处量,但却有着重要的意义。的传统生活。她给玛姬安排了一叶方舟,幻想能在这个大势之在这场大洪水中,玛姬就像是连接社会和自然的桥梁,将下,保留方寸之地,但并没有成功，只能和流逝了过去、现在时汤姆救了出来,给他带来了希望。这样,洪水不再是自然意义光的佛洛斯河合为- _体,在死亡中和自然和谐共处。艾略特一上的洪水,它流过了现在的整个圣奥格镇,淹没了一切。也就直都是一个矛盾的小说家。在《佛》中.她表现出对工业革命的是说,它把开始工业化的圣奥格镇整个摧毁,包括佛洛斯河沿深切关心和忧虑,试图在自然传统和工业化中寻找- - 条共存的岸迷人风光、红洼地和磨坊- -并 吞没。玛姬的营救计划失败，道路,但随着两兄妹的死亡,这个愿望以失败告终。就意味着她并不能像诺亚一样在不可逆转的工业革命潮流中注释:拯救入类的灵魂。工业革命的浪潮势不可挡。玛姬和汤姆想保持过去的田园传统,重新过着和自然和谐共存的日子已经不①③⑥乔治.艾略特,佛洛斯河磨坊,孙法理,译.南京:译林出可能,所以兄妹的俩在这样的大背景下是没有希望和前途的。版社2002:3,316,561.死亡就成了最终的归宿,只有在死亡中,两人能够拥抱、和解，②、④Garrard, Greg.Ecocriticism.London,New York:Routledge,在自然中得到宁静。“五年后,地面上已经没有了洪水破坏的可2004:59.见痕迹。..大自然抹平了她受到的破坏--却不完全。 冲⑤Eliot, George. 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