Research Article

Revealing the Meanings on William Wordsworth’s Poem Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known

Authors

  • Sukarno Sukarno Associate Professor of Discourse Analysis, Department of English, Jember University, Indonesia

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.’

Article information

Journal

International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation

Volume (Issue)

5 (3)

Pages

114-126

Published

2022-03-13

How to Cite

Sukarno, S. (2022). Revealing the Meanings on William Wordsworth’s Poem Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, 5(3), 114-126. https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.3.15

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Keywords:

(non)automatized, backgrounded, foregrounded, meanings, theme, verbal arts,