Stylistic Analysis Of John Keats’s Poem “Ode On Indolence” And William Wordsworth’s Poem “Ode To Duty”

Abstract

This study aims to analyze John Keats’s poem “Ode on Indolence” and William Wordsworth’s poem “Ode to Duty” from a stylistic point of view. This study consists of Graphological, phonological, morphological and lexico-syntactic features and patterns of the poems. Graphological patterns consist of punctuation marks in the text while morphological patterns deal with form and structure of the poems. Phonological patterns deal with sounds of the text while lexico-syntactic patterns include devices that create meaning in the text. This study will help in revealing the language of romantic poets and also to understand the meaning of the poems. As we know style varies from text to text to create various types of meaning. There is a clear difference between ordinary language and poetic language. This study also discusses which devices and patterns make a poetic language. Furthermore, this study will analyze whether the language of poets in the romantic age was flowery or not as modern poets called their language flowery.