Abstract
This study deals with stylistic analysis of E.E. Cummings’s poem "Humanity i love you". This study is dealt under the level of lexicology, graphology and the parallelism in stylistics. Qualitative method has been applied in the analysis of the poem in which the data are collected from primary, secondary and tertiary sources. The analysis of these features is helpful to comprehend the basic theme of the poem that is completely sarcasm and irony. The first free clause "Humanity i love you" repeats several times ironically in the poem but at the end of the poem this structural repetition is being juxtaposed and parallelized with what the poet actually wants to say “Humanity i hate you”.
Highlights
Leech and Short (2007, p. 11) define that stylistics is the linguistic study of style which does not take it for its own sake but an exercise in which we describe the different use of language
Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it’s there and sitting down on it (Cummings, 1994, p. 53). They comment about the stanza that: the poet reasserts his ‘love’ for humanity, what is reckoned from the shameless behaviors in full display only intensifies in reader’s mind his hatred for the cruelty and selfishness of mankind rather than love, the effect of which has been achieved by irony as expected
The study in this poem is how the faults of humanity, repetitions, metaphorical language and ironic visual imagery and the contrast between the first and the last line create the theme of this poem by applying some specific stylistic techniques: Graphological analysis, lexical analysis and parallelism
Summary
All these levels of language categories- words, phrases, sentences, units of meaning and sound - may be tied up for the purpose to create parallelism and these parallel constructions are aimed to achieve the effect of foregrounding in a literary passage. In the analyses at lexical level (Li and Shi in 2015), include the study of neologism in which the stylistician explores the newly created words and phrases
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