Lines written in early spring is a ballad written by William Wordsworth. This poem represents the... more Lines written in early spring is a ballad written by William Wordsworth. This poem represents the ecological philosophy of “the Lake Poets”, that is, to appreciate the beauty of nature and form a harmonious relation with nature. The study aims to explore how to interpret the meaning of the poem through functional linguistic analysis in terms of generic structure and three metafunctions and also how the ecological motif is constructed in this poem. For the first step, the poem is analyzed at the genre plane, unveiling its generic structure. Next, working within the framework of Halliday’s three metafunctions, the paper conducts the linguistic and ecological analysis of the poem. The ideational metafunction is analyzed through transitivity system, the interpersonal metafunction through mood system, and the textual metafunction through Theme-Rheme structure. The analysis shows that the poem is in keeping with Labov’s narrative generic structure and the choices on the lexico-grammatical level are in accordance with the generic structure from the perspective of three metafunctions. In addition, the ecological motif is mainly constructed through transitivity system.
Lines written in early spring is a ballad written by William Wordsworth. This poem represents the... more Lines written in early spring is a ballad written by William Wordsworth. This poem represents the ecological philosophy of “the Lake Poets”, that is, to appreciate the beauty of nature and form a harmonious relation with nature. The study aims to explore how to interpret the meaning of the poem through functional linguistic analysis in terms of generic structure and three metafunctions and also how the ecological motif is constructed in this poem. For the first step, the poem is analyzed at the genre plane, unveiling its generic structure. Next, working within the framework of Halliday’s three metafunctions, the paper conducts the linguistic and ecological analysis of the poem. The ideational metafunction is analyzed through transitivity system, the interpersonal metafunction through mood system, and the textual metafunction through Theme-Rheme structure. The analysis shows that the poem is in keeping with Labov’s narrative generic structure and the choices on the lexico-grammatical level are in accordance with the generic structure from the perspective of three metafunctions. In addition, the ecological motif is mainly constructed through transitivity system.
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