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An Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Poems from the Perspective of Functional Grammar--A Genre-Centered Approach

Author: ZhaoHaiHu
Tutor: LiGuoQing
School: Jinan University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Emily Dickinson Narrative poetry Descriptive poetry Transitivity system Thematic Structure
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract


Dickinson is one of America's greatest poets. Although their education is not much, but she read widely at home. Over 20 years of age, she began to live a life of seclusion. Although Dickinson stay at home with the outside world only through letters to contact friends, but her life, wrote 1,775 poems, and many, many letters. Dickinson lived at home, continuing to explore the meaning of life and nature, as well as love, death, the soul and so these aspects of her views and attitudes in her poetry are fully reflected. This article will select Dickinson and descriptive text in the text two kinds of narrative genre of poetry as a corpus for analysis. Narrative poetry is to tell the reader what happened, or tell a story to the reader; descriptive poetry is the description of an object or some background. Functional linguists believe that the genre through the generic structure into text. Generic Structure role is the \Therefore, this article is the first level of analysis in the genre of poetry these two genres, revealing the structure of their genre. On the other hand, we have to explore different poetic language field deep meaning. Depending on the language field we put Dickinson's poetry into death poems, nature-themed poetry and poetic love theme, which to explore Dickinson to death, nature and love attitudes and perceptions. According to Labov's narrative structure of the text, as well as in front we have revealed the structure of the various text genres of poetry, we have come, for the narrative poem, the climax, the outcome and evaluation component is an important part; according to Li Guoqing (2006), For descriptive poetry, the detailed description of some is indispensable, so the analysis of the process, we will focus on those parts; generic structure but the other optional parts, we can not be ignored, since they provide information can also help us to understand poetry. Our system functions through the use of theories, including the transitivity system, thematic structure theory, Dickinson's poetry analysis, hoping to better understand the linguistic point of Emily Dickinson's poetry and Dickinson I; same time, it also understanding of poetry to provide a new perspective.

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