This poem describes a dialogue between two people who have died, one for beauty and one for truth. They find themselves buried in adjoining rooms and have a conversation through the wall between their tombs. They realize that beauty and truth are ultimately one and the same. As moss grows over their lips, their names are covered and they can no longer speak.

1. STYLISTIC ANALYSIS
I died for beauty but was scarce
By
Emily Dickinson

2. STYLISTIC ANALYSIS
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M.PHIL APPLIED LINGUISTICS

3. I died for beauty but was scarce
I died for beauty but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
'For beauty,' I replied.
'And I for truth,--the two are one;
We brethren are,' he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.

4. About poem
• The poetry of Emily Dickinson is radically original and
innovative. She was a poet of immense depth and stylistic
complexity. Her works are so unique that it is difficult to
place them in a single tradition. Dickinson developed her
arguments through startling metaphors, metrical variations,
and angular, imprecise rhymes. Visual aspects of her poetry
are very peculiar: unusual capitalization of nouns,
unconventional punctuation, and omission of titles helped
Dickinson to create extraordinary poems that amazed
readers. Some people praised her imagistic qualities and
the supreme mastery of words; others considered
Dickinson's poetic innovations as a result of ineptitude, but
nobody remained indifferent.

5. About poem
• The are two people in there grave talking about
how they died. One died for truth, but the other,
the narrator, died for her beauty of which she did
not really have "But was scarce".
•
"We brethren are" is beauty and truth. There is
beauty in truth and also truth in beauty. They
possibly both fail because they canceled each
other out. Or, they fail because when you die, the
truth goes with you and so does your beauty.

6. Stylistic Analysis
• Phonological level
• Grammatical level
• Semantic level
• Pragmatic level
• Graphological level
• Discourse level
• Lexical level

7. Phonological level
• Two types
• onomatopoeia
• Sound symbolism
• Assimilation
• Elision
• Repetition of sounds( alliteration / assonance)
Segmental
feature
•Stress
•Rhythm
•intonation
Supra-
segmental
feature

8. Segmental feature
• Onomatopoeia => no
• Sound symbolism => no
• Assimilation => Adjoining
• Elision => no
• Alliteration => When one who died for truth
was lain
• Assonance =>

9. Supra- segmental feature
• Stress =>
• Rhyme => first stanza ABCX(B)
• second stanza AABA
• third stanza ABCA
• Intonation => no
'For beauty,' I replied.

10. Graphological level
• About writing system of language like mark
etc
• As u have seen in this poem
• There is deviation of graphological level in this
poem

11. Lexical level
• Slang , Archaism , Neologism , jargons => No
• Word Inclination => writer used formal
vocabulary
And so, as kinsmen met a night,

12. Lexical level
• Lexical idiom=>no
• Different Nous => tomb , room , moss
• Abstract Noun => beauty , truth
• Static verb =. Replied ,said , failed

13. lexical level
• Word types =>
yes
• Puns
words
No
• Nonce
words
No
• Deviant
words

14. Lexical level
• Puns words =>
In this poem there is one word ‘failed’
1) Their ‘failure’ is life ultimate defeat death.
2) Alternatively failure represent the futility of all
human endeavor for good failure
3) It is also personal stumbling , an imperfection or
shortcoming.
4) Both seem to accept that their death are failure

15. Grammatical level
• There are two things
Here is evaluative because comparing two
things.
descriptive evaluative

16. Discourse level
• Natural or responsible connection in context
of text

17. Semantic level
• Transitional devices => no
• Grammatical features
• i) Transitional words => no
• ii) Grammatical devices => no
• iii)Lexical reiteration => no
• Iv) co.reference
substitutio
n ellipsis

18. Pragmatic level
Pragmatic
level
deixis
presupposition
Speech act
Cooperation /
implicature

19. Deixis
Personal d I died for beauty but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth, the two are one;
We brethren are," he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.

20. Presupposition
• There is no presupposition.

21. Implicature
No
• Generalize conversation
• No specific context
yes
• Scalar conversation
• Conveying information
yes
• Particularize conversation
• With specific context

22. Cooperative principle
• Presence of maxim
maxim of quality , quantity , relation and
manner

23. •
• The End :)