DISCOURSE ANALYSIS I BUILD WALLS I BUILD WALLS

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS “I BUILD WALLS”

I BUILD WALLS I build walls Walls that protect, Walls that shield, Walls that say I shall not yield or reveal Who I am or how I feel I build walls Walls that hide Walls that cover what’s inside, Walls that stare or smile or look away, silent lies, Walls that even block my eyes from the tears I might have cried I build walls Walls that never let me truly touch Those I love so very much Walls that need to fall! Walls meant to be fortresses are prisons after all

FORMAL LINKS of the POEM Verb Form Verb form Examples Total Present time Build, protect, shield, etc 18 Past time meant 1 Perfect Have cried 1 Parallelism Percenta ge Parallelis m Examples Total 27, 5 % Verb present + verb present Walls that say I shall. . 1 Noun + verb present Walls that protect, etc. . . 9 Verb present + perfect Walls that even block my eyes. . 1 Percenta ge 15, 2 %

FORMAL LINKS of the POEM Referring Expression Anaphora Examples Total I = me I could walls, walls that never let me truly touch 1 Walls that even block my eyes from the tears I might have cried 1 My = I Repetition Precenta ge Repetitio n Examples Total Percenta ge 2. 7 % I I build, I shall, I feel, I build, etc 7 31. 5 % Walls I build walls, Walls that shield, etc 13 Build I build walls 3

FORMAL LINKS of the POEM Ellipsis Example Walls that say I shall not yield or revel = walls that say I shall not yield or I shall revel Conjunction Total Percenta ge Conjunctio n Examples Total 1 1. 4 % That Walls that protect, walls that shield, etc 9 Or Who I am or how I feel, etc 4 Not I shall not yield or reveal, etc 1 Percentage 20. 6 %

The analysis of poem • The biggest percentage is repetition aspect (31. 5%). • The writer chose some words (I, walls, and build) to tell us that the writer needs to be alone because of love or sadness • I = the writer often used it to make stressed • Walls = to make it sure that he/she did it • Build = the writer’s doing

The analysis of poem • Even most of verb forms use verb present, but there is something interesting in the end of poem “WALLS MEANT TO BE FORTRESSES ARE PRISONS AFTER ALL” • (the writer never makes walls. The writer wishes had made walls, but the writer hadn’t) • The writer has big problem which the write keeps it secret, the writer doesn’t want to share for someone’s else • the writer prefers to build walls tahn to say what he/she fells • Finally the writer doesn’t make walls because of some reasons which the writer felt before.