A Stylistic Analysis of William Henry Davies’ Leisure

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze William Henry Davies’ poem Leisure from the perspective of stylistic analysis. The analysis made under the level of graphological, syntactical, semantic and phonological patterns. This analysis is helpful in understanding the basic concept of poem that how modern man has made himself the slave of worldly pursuits, ignoring the beautiful objects of nature and making his life miserable.

Keywords: Style, Stylistics, Leisure, Phonological level, Graphological level, Morphological level, Lexico-syntactical level