Poetic image and stylization of beauty : an approach to the study of Shelleys style in "The Sensitive Plant"

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The Poetic image constitutes one of the most illuminating features of Shelley style this paper purports of investigate how Shelley,s poetic images are structured as collocational shifis so as to express his philosophoical and aesthetie vision The sensitive Plant will be investigate in terms of Firth,s linguistic theory Modern linguistic theory centres on the assumption that the poetic image is the constitute ;ve linguistic system lt is not merely an ornament or an extra beauy Rathe it is a from of expression which illustrates meaning and reveals emotion As a linguistic fcature the poetic image extends the linguistic porspectives of language By and through a series of images the poet extends the potentialities of language S/he transgresses the normal froms of linguistic code language then develops through Such images