Narrative Stylistic Analysis

Submitted By:
Mariam Arooj

Class:
MS in English Linguistic
Semester:
01

Roll –no:

22103024-004

Submitted To:
Sir . Ali Furqan Syed
Introduction:
A way of recapitulating the events and experiments. It is a way of retelling the
felt experience by matching up the patterns of a certain language to a connected series of
events. It describe how an event or fiction can be presented by using Narrative plot and
Narrative discourse.

Narrative stylistic is a name of narrative discourse

Narrative Stylistics depends upon the narrator , characterization , embellishment , elaboration

and structure are the “Conceptual umbrella style”.

Two classes can be ordered temporarily and rearranged.

As social linguistic present it through example :

“ That person has too much little to drink

and he attacked me

and friend came

and she stopped it .”

Narration comprises the Coherence and coehence includes Rehetroical , Canonical or Fictional
structure of language explore.

Abstract:

I am going to do the narrative analysis of poem named as “Night Watch” written by an Indian
writer Vikram Seth who has spent his whole life in this profession in “kolkatta” . Vikram Seth
was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India in June 1952. He is the author of novels, books
of verse and has received a number of awards. These include the Crossword Book Award, WH
Smith Literary Award, and Sahitya Academy Award.

The poem has the Rhymes Scheme of ABAB.

It is written in Trochaic Pentameter containing only 1 stanza .

The poet has used lexical representation to emphasize the significant image and is repeated.

The closet Rhyme of this poem is Alternate Rhyme and the closet stanza type of this poem is
Tercets.

The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

Literature Review :
The author or poet of this poem has written a variety of topics as : Music , Travel , Work
environments , Depression and Family.

In his work The Golden Gate (1986) , he discusses Homosexuality and the Catholic beliefs.

He has traveled widely and his words are the clear glimpse of Britain, Calfornia , India and
China.

Seth’s most lauded works are the travel book From Heaven Lake (1983), the verse novel The
Golden Gate (1986), and the epic novel A Suitable Boy (1993). The Golden Gate is based on
Charles Johnston’s translation of Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (1833).

He has also written the following works :

 The Tale Of Melon City (1981)

 The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985)
 All You
 Who Sleep Tonight (1990)
 Beastly Tales (1991)
 Three Chinese Poets (1992)
 The Frog and the Nightingale (1994)
 Summer Requiem: A Book of Poems (2015)
 A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945
 Elephant and the Trapogan

Analysis of the Poem:

The Poet is depressed due to some family issues. He is standing at the verge of chaos.

That unable state of the Poet has been clearly depicted through these verses.

Awake for hours and staring at the ceiling

Through the unsettled stillness of the night

He grows possessed of the obsessive feeling

That dawn has come and gone and brought no light.

The Poet has written this poem merely to tell how much disturbed and broken he is.

He has compared the stillness of his heart with that of night.

He is unable to sleep and has spent his whole night watching at the stars in the thoughts which
looking at the ceiling. He is so much absorbed in his sorrows.

William Blake has expressed this same feeling in following lines:

“Some are born to sweet delight

Some are born to endless night”

(William Blake , Songs of innocence)

The time passes so fast that the black cloth of the sky has changed into white thread.

The first ray of Sunlight has fallen on the face of the Poet and he has come to know that one

more night passed away and the dawn has again came without the hope of betterment.

The poet is just into this feeling of being useless one more day and he is not ready to face the
day because he knows that day has not brought anything positive in his life neither that day can
change him.

His days and nights continuously changes but he remains the same. The same person in the
same place sunken in the same thoughts.

The poet is just obsessed with this feeling that he is not growing positively and the sadness is
killing all the happiness of his life. He is alive outside but all the positions of emotions have been
taken over by despair , misery etc.

Poet has been into a mental trauma and he is trying to recover that but all in vain. He makes
himself motivated everyday but when he sees his environment . He again became depressed
and spent all of his days in the same condition .

References:

1.  "Vikram Seth". Desert Island Discs. 22 January 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18

January 2014.
2. ^ Joshi, Rita (1991). "In Other Places: An Inner Voice". India International Centre
Quarterly. 18 (1): 55–65. JSTOR 23002110.
3. ^ Angela Atkins (26 June 2002). Vikram Seth's Suitable Boy: A Reader's Guide. A&C Black.
p. 7. ISBN 978-0-8264-5707-3.