The poem under analysis.
In order to show how these procedures work, each procedure separately and all of them together, it is advisable to subject the given below text to a scrupulous stylistic analysis. This, as has been described above, aims at disclosing the content-conceptual information contained in the text. But in order to achieve this aim, i.e. to get a clear idea of what the content-conceptual information consists of, it is necessary to come to an understanding of the order in which the factual information of the text is arranged.
In prose the factual information is more or less coherently exposed, although there are certain kinds of prose where the factual information does not follow the principle of coherence. Moreover, there are kinds of prose in which the thread of factual information is broken and a mental effort on the part of the reader is required to assemble the separate parts in their correct relation one to another. Also, apart from the two kinds of information mentioned, there exists a third one which is called sublinear information. This is sometimes referred to as the hidden information in the text.
As it is necessary to reveal how the different procedures aim at disclosing the conceptual information (it would be, in fact, impossible to do so in a brief outline of the way the procedures work), a very short passage has been chosen—the first two stanzas of the poem "The Raven" by E. A. Poe.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping—rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor"' I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor,
Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
Nameless here for evermore.
According to the schedule given above we can find in these two stanzas almost everything that can be subjected to four of the five procedures, i.e. to the taxonomic, content-grasping, semantic and stylistic stages of the analysis. The only procedure which cannot be maintained is the functional stage because, as has been mentioned, this stage bringing us back to the second of the indicated positions of analysis, requires a retrospective study of the conceptual information of the whole text. Here, however, we deal with two stanzas only, hence we can but guess at the further factual information the text contains. And so it will hardly be possible to achieve a synthesis of all the procedures.
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