A Stylistic Approach to Thomas Campion’s There Is a Garden in Her Face / Thomas Campion’ın Yüzü Bir Gül Bahçesi’ne Biçembilimsel Bir Yaklaşım
Literary works come into existence through authors’ use of language units in particular ways. Style is considered as the choice of linguistic characteristics from all the probabilities in language. Stylistics attempts to create an interaction of readers with the language of a literary text to cla...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cyprus International University
2023-08-01
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| Series: | Folklor/Edebiyat |
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| Online Access: | https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/1307057474_16.Halit%20Alkan-Thomas%20Campion.pdf |
| Summary: | Literary works come into existence through authors’ use of language units in
particular ways. Style is considered as the choice of linguistic characteristics from
all the probabilities in language. Stylistics attempts to create an interaction of
readers with the language of a literary text to clarify how a reader understands
the text. This study examines how Thomas Campion manipulated basic linguistic
features to form stylistic effects in order to produce meaning in There Is a Garden
in Her Face. The analysis involves lexical, semantic, grammatical (syntactic),
graphological, and phonological (sound pattern) levels. It helps to clarify the
context of the poem. The stylistic analysis shows that the poem is very carefully
constructed. All three stanzas in the poem are grammatically parallel to each other
and deal with the lady’s beauty whose face is compared to a garden of heavenly paradise where every kind of delicious fruit grows there. The unity of the poem
is secured by the refrain describing a beautiful lady’s lips. The graphological
deviation shows a system of capitalization to foreground important words such as
“Roses” and “white Lilies” in the poem to represent love/passion, and innocence/
purity. The phonetic parallelism reinforces the system of parallel meaning in terms
of alliteration and assonance. The poem is based mostly on similes and metaphors
to make the imagery of the flowers and fruit growing in a garden much more
vivid. With this, the lady’s physical features are portrayed. The noun cherry is
used with the adjective sacred which portrays that the lady’s lips have not been
touched or kissed by anyone. The same line which is repeated at the end of each
stanza foregrounds that this beautiful lady is unattainable unless if she says her lips
are fully ripe to become most valuable. Here, female beauty signals the ideals of
Elizabethan beauty: white skin, blushing cheeks, and red lips. This study shows
how Campion has been able to manipulate language which is an integral part of a
literary work. Campion has created changes through a systemic use of language to
get his message across to readers. This study may help researchers understand how
Campion used stylistic tools in his poem. |
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| ISSN: | 1300-7491 2791-6057 |