Stylistic Analysis Of The Poem “Ode To A Nightingale” By John Keats

Abstract

This paper aims at investigating the text of the poem “Ode to a nightingale” written by John Keats.  This paper provides an easy understanding of the selected Poem. we made stylistic analysis of this poem at four levels: phonological level, graphological level, lexical level, and morphological Level. The researchers observed different literary devices used by the writer in the poem “Ode to a  Nightingale” e.g., simile, metaphor, personification, and imagery. several works have been done before on this poem but analysis of the poem using different literary devices and different levels of stylistics were unexplored. The current study's goals were to examine different literary devices, and to analyze the poem at different levels of stylistics. The data analysis for the current study used a  qualitative approach. The researchers employed secondary sources to gather the data. According to the results of the current study, the researchers discovered different literary devices in the poem and  analyze the poem using different stylistics’ levels. At lexical level the researchers observed nouns,  verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in the poem. At graphological level the researchers examined different punctuation marks like; full stops, comma, colon, semi colon, exclamation marks, apostrophe, dash, question marks, and round brackets. At morphological level the researchers found prefixes, suffixes, and compounding, and at phonological level the researchers observed different alliterations, assonance and consonance in the poem.