Free Verbal Repetition in Bronte’s Poetry

doi:10.33195/jll.v2ii.160

Abstract

This paper attempts to analyze the use of free verbal repetition in Emily Bronte’s poems by using Leech’s classification. The aim of this linguistic analysis is to establish how different categories of verbal repetition contribute to the process of foregrounding’ of literary meanings and effects. To evaluate the functional value of these linguistic patterns, the approach of Fish (1980) and Toolan (1990) is also used. The study ends with the conclusion that the poet makes an extensive use of the device of free verbal repetition in two different kinds; both intermittent repetition and immediate repetition. The findings of this research reveal that Bronte uses more intermittent repetition than immediate ones. She uses these verbal repetitions to establish a threefold meaning, poetic, personal and symbolic of greater universal realities.

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Poetry is an artistic composition, propounds unique features which make it different from prose
Okunowo states in the article, Patterns Of Parallelism as Trope Of Meaning In Osundare’s Poetrythat there is a relationship between the structure and the idea proposed in the form of repetition(Okunowo, 2012, p. 716).It is in this regard that the current study offers to study Bonte’s poetry for the sake of understanding the connection between a structure and an idea
The present research focuses to analyze the style of Emily Bronte keeping in mind the notion of modern stylistics, which lies in the fact of foregrounding (Carter & Nash, 1990) in the light of the classification for the device of repetition as presented by Leech (1969)

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Poetry is an artistic composition, propounds unique features which make it different from prose. The Victorian poetry makes its distinctive place due to its adequate amount of linguistic and literary features. The poetry of Victorian poets like that of Tennyson, Bronte and Rossetti is thickly populated as far as the poetic features are concerned. Cronin states in the book A Companion to Victorian Poetry that the style of Victorian poets is florid and over decorated. Bronte is one of those famous poets of the Victorian era, who reflect their genius through poetry. The poetry of Bronte remained unappreciated during her life. She remained in the limelight because of her single novel Wuthering Heights.

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