THE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM BLAKE’S HOLY THURSDAY FROM SONGS OF EXPERIENCE

In this article, I will try to analyze William Blake’s selected poem Holy Thursday from Songs of Experience. The selected lexical items and linguistic features are analyzed in each stanza in order to reveal hidden meaning and hidden messages in the poem. It is significant to analyze the selected poem’s linguistic and lexico grammatical features because the selected poem can carry hidden ideological and political agenda and messages. The qualititative approach is used in this study in order to reveal and explore hidden messages and meanings. I will also analyze the poem in terms of the standards of textuality in because text is a communicative event; and it is a basic semantic unit, therefore text can be examined in terms of seven standards of textuality i.e. cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality, intertextuality (Beaugrande & Dressler,1981,Kılıç,2002). If these standards of textuality cannot be realized in the text, the text does not achieve communicative purposes (Widdowson,2007:4-5). In this sense, standards of textuality in the poem is analyzed in order to establish, realize, organize, meaning in the poem. Regarding this, this article focuses on functions of language used in the poem in order to reveal the deeper meaning in the poem. The study indicates that the selected poem has ideological and hidden messages. The hidden and ideological messages are established by means of selected lexical items and linguistic features. The political and ideological messages are textually employed by the selected poem’s language.

WILLIAM BLAKE’İN TECRÜBE ŞARKILARINDAN KUTSAL PERŞEMBE’NİN METİN ANALİZİ

Bu makale, William Blake’in Tecrübeyle ilgili şarkılarından gelen “Kutsal Perşembe” şiirini seçilen sözcüksel öğeler ve dilsel özellikler bağlamında şiirdeki gizli anlamı ve gizli mesajları ortaya çıkarmak için analiz edilecektir. Seçilen şiirin, dil bilgisi yapısını ve sözcük seçim özelliklerini çözümlemek önemlidir; çünkü seçilen şiir gizli ideolojik ve politik anlam ve iletileri taşıyabilir. Yöntem olarak nitel araştırma, çalışmada kullanılan şiirin dilbilgisi ve kelime yapısında gizli mesaj ve anlamları ortaya çıkarmak ve keşfetmek için bu çalışmada kullanılmıştır. Bu çalışma, William Blake'in Deneyim Şarkıları'ndan “Kutsal Perşembe” deki metinselliğin ilkelerini, standardlarını incelemektedir. Metin, iletişimsel bir olaydır, bu nedenle metin, yedi metinlik uyumu, tutarlılık, kasıtlılık, kabul edilebilirlik, bilgilendirme, durumsallık, metinlerarasılık gibi ilkeler içerir (Beaugrande ve Dressler, 1981;Kılıç,2002). Metinde bu metinsel ilkeler gerçekleştirilemezse, metin iletişimsel amaçlara ulaşamaz (Widdowson, 2007:4-5). Bu bağlamda, Tecrübe Şarkıları'ndan “Kutsal Perşembe” deki metinsellik ilkeleri seçilen şiirde anlamı oluşturmak, gerçekleştirmek ve ilişkilendirmek için analiz edilecektir. Bununla ilgili olarak, bu makale şiirde daha derin anlamları ortaya çıkarmak için şiirde kullanılan dilin işlevlerine odaklanmaktadır. Çalışmanın sonucu göstermiştir ki, seçilen şiirin dilbilgisi ve sözcük ideolojik ve gizli mesajlara sahiptir. Gizli ve ideolojik mesajlar, seçilen sözcüksel öğeler ve dilsel özellikler aracılığıyla oluşturulmuştur. Politik ve ideolojik iletiler, seçilen şiirin dili tarafından metinsel ilkeler bağlamında oluşturulmuştur.

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