A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES'S POEM “MONEY”

Abstract

This research article aims to analyse the concepts of Davies’s poem “Money” from a stylistic point of view and to explore four levels of stylistic analysis: graphological, syntactical, semantic, and phonological. The poem dwells upon the pathetic and painful conditions of the poet's determination, who wants to gain the eternal pleasure of life, and he says that the significance of money can be realised only in a poor economic condition. He says that the friends of the rich by heart are better than the rich by money. Materialistic joys vanish in the flow of time, but eternal pleasures remain as they are. The analysis of this poem will help identify the concepts of money that cause tensions in human lives, especially in the modern and postmodern eras.