Poetic structure and structure of love : A PHONOLOGICAL APPROACH TO A SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET

Abstract

This study proceeds on the hypothesis that the sound patterns of a
poem contribute a great deal to build the poet's world — view .The study is
an attempt to investigate the texture of sound in Shakespeare's sonnet (55
), " Not marble , nor gilded monuments " . The sonnet will be approached
as a phonological unit of meaning. The study falls into three parts . Part I
introduces the key concepts of modern phonetics and phonology . Attention
is drawn to the phonological aspect of the verse structure by showing the "
stress-producing pulses " and the " syllable — producing pulses" which
either of the processes exists in nearly all human languages . Part II deals
with the phonological mechanisms which create the poem as an aesthetic
form . Of these mechanisms are the widely known sound devices such as , "
rhythm", " rhyme " , " alliteration " , " onomatopoeia " and so on . These
terms will be looked at from a _ phonological perspective.
Shakespeare's sonnet will be investigated in terms of Cummings and
Simmons's " Systemic Description "in its phonological aspect . The
analytic mode will show how the language operates to produce the poem as
a linguistic and aesthetic form.