Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
10th International KTUDELL Conference, Trabzon, Türkiye, 29 - 30 Mayıs 2025, ss.129, (Özet Bildiri)
The elegiac tradition of the Middle Ages, particularly in Old English, is distinguished by its focus on the themes of loss, exile, mourning, and grief. Parallelly, the ways in which such feelings are employed through linguistic mechanisms within these poems provide a lot of research opportunities in the interaction between language and literature. In this light, the aim of this paper is to examine the ways these emotional states are conveyed in medieval elegies, with a particular focus on lexical choices, syntactic structures, and linguistic patterns. This research discusses the interplay between the semantic realms of grief and syntactical patterns in elegiac poems, like The Wanderer and The Seafarer. In shaping the poetic sound of grief, the formulaic expressions within the language, which not only enhance the emotional depth but also serve as linguistic tools, are explored. Through a thorough and close analysis of the poems, the articulation of the medieval poets’ in shaping distinct language strategies to reinforce the elegiac mode of the poems are revealed with an emphasis on the relationship between language and emotion in medieval elegiac poetry. By the same token, this research studies the power of the linguistic expression over the emotional landscape of medieval elegiac poetry.