Abstract
This paper focuses on the use of stylistic devices in Emily Dickinson’s and Sylvia Plath’s poetry. It differentiates between the phonological stylistic devices as alliteration, consonance and semantic stylistic devices as simile and personification. The study is carried out on five randomly selected poems from each poetess using the mixed modal research with the tool of tabulation to quantify the findings. Qualitative approach is used for analysis. The analysis provides a clear picture of the use of stylistic devices in Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath’s poetry.
Highlights
This paper focuses on the use of stylistic devices in Emily Dickinson’s and Sylvia Plath’s poetry
It differentiates between the phonological stylistic devices as alliteration, consonance and semantic stylistic devices as simile and personification
The analysis provides a clear picture of the use of stylistic devices in Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath’s poetry
Summary
The job is not easy since the readers are supposed to be aware of literary conventions and historical background of any piece of literature They must possess the sensibility of language in which it is written and the grammatical and stylistic technicalities involved in its composition. In the past centuries a movement was initiated that has gained momentum especially in the modern days that stresses the claim that one can get real meanings of the text by analyzing critically its stylistic and linguistic technicalities. This effort or this movement is called stylistics. Regarding the importance of stylistic devices in poetry I intended to carry out a comparative study of investigation of stylistic devices in Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath poetry, in order to obtain more insight and to draw out a comparison in stylistic devices used in Dickinson and Plath’s poetry
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