Discourse – Centred Stylistics : A Study in Wordsworth’s We Are Seven

The study of any literary text always supports two types of view. the first view concerns the individuality of the poet’s (or the writer’s) style which is reflected in the term ‘stylistics’ in particular. the second one is a means for the interpretation of individual writings. the success in such field has been sporadic and related to the individuals more than to the development of adequate models of analysis. this belongs to the reason that such systems of analysis had shown only eccentric works. for the most part, those works whose individuality does not lie in any grammatical deviation have not been illuminated by sentential analysis. the foregoing researches in discourse analysis and literary stylistics over the past decades revealed the possibility of approaching these analyses in more productive ways. since any discourse has its unique framework, or organization, so one way of showing the individuality of a discourse is by analyzing its organization as discourse. in this paper, we attempt to prove that the discourse analysis of a poem by william wordsworth results in a several number of readings for the poem.