From Theory to Practice: Transitivity Analysis of Alfred Tennyson’s Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead

This paper investigates the progression of narrative and psychological emotional development major character in Home They Brought her Warrior Dead by applying Halliday’s theory transitivity. Transitivity patterns are useful to study link between languages thought The will pave way understanding inner feelings widow, which concealed poet using different linguistic choices. In first two stanzas poem, widow does not show any sign movement, whereas, third fourth action, movement become focus. Thus, there is a subtle from last poem. present contribution field Systematic Functional Linguistics lexico-grammatical analysis, originate with frameworks stylistics foregrounded approaches texts. However, analysis markedly traditional as former approach text an explanatory activity (how means?), latter, esteemed interpretive (what means?). significant because it provides analytical objective tool for exploring meanings studying relationship metafunctions grammatical system, cultural context schematic structure text.