A Discourse Analysis of Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Author : Radhika Sharma
Abstract :
Discourse analysis enables us to comprehend the social context in which the author's language was employed or the setting in which the author envisaged writing a particular poem. It aids in our comprehension of how the language employed in that poetry was influenced by its intent, culture, convention, values, beliefs, and assumptions, as well as by the social, political, and historical settings of the society at the time. It aids in mapping how language operated at that time and in that society by focusing on the context of language, where vocabulary, grammar, structure, genre, and conventional norms are highlighted. Text analysis techniques that are qualitative and interpretive have been employed. The objective of this study is to present discourse analysis in ‘Crossing the Bar’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It focuses on understanding the functions of language during that time when Tennyson lived, imagined, or created, and tried to present in his poem to achieve a specific purpose if any while composing this.
Keywords :
Discourse analysis, language-functions, context, meaning, social usage of language
