چكيده فارسي :
The purpose of this study is approaching a literary text in terms of the three metafunctions of SFL system, and also the pedagogical implications. The corpus is selected from William Butler Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming” and three more poems of his. The ideational metafunction includes behavioral, mental, verbal, relational, and existential sub-parts. The interpersonal metafunction consists of two subcategories: indicative and imperative. In the indicative part, the speaker/writer tries to either declare information or seek for (interrogate) it. In imperative part, the speaker either includes him/herself to do a task or excludes him/herself. The textual metafunction includes the theme/rheme organization and information system. The result showed that in these poems, most of the clauses are textually complex and marked, interpersonally indicative and declarative, and ideationally mental, material, and relational. The results of this paper also give pedagogical implication. First, the students are supposed to be able to describe how these three metafunctions are realized in any type of text, specifically literary texts. Second, for EFL teachers, this study can be used as a reference to teach metafunctions in class. Besides, mastering these realizations can be used as a guidance to choose appropriate learning materials for EFL students.
