"Naming of the Parts" ( Formalist Approach)

 A formalist approach to the poem "Naming of the Parts" might take us to different versions of story as to where a person's imagination will reach between the two worlds such as the world of nature and the world of war. Each stanza provides imageries that conjures connotations and denotations. In the first stanza, "like coral in all of the neighboring garden", this image of Japonica plants glistening,opposes the imagery of the rifle. In the second stanza, "piling the swivel",this missing image contradicts the image of the peaceful tree branches mentioned. The "silent" sets up an opposition to the soldiers,in release of the rifles. These gestures also contradict with the "fragile and motionless" blossoms and reiterates "using their finger" phrase that educes sexual connotation. In the fourth stanza, images such as "easing the spring" with that of the bees and "assaulting and fumbling the flowers" can be referred sexually as to flowers are the passive victims and bees as to sexual predators. As the imagery being "played" and emphasized as "easing the Spring", the other speaker is thinking about sexual release like bees pollinating flowers. The last stanza stands as the summary of the imageries. It accentuated that natural images repeated are associated with sexual implications.