Abstract
A comprehensive revision on literature, especially poetry, reveals that there is a very strong connection between poetry and phonology. This paper identifies the phonoaesthetic instances in poetry i.e., consonance and assonance in five selected poems written by T.S. Eliot who was the most prominent figure in English poetry.
 This paper finds out the answers to questions behind the use of such features and the harmony and aesthetic value between the process of writing a poem and phonological features such as consonance and assonance whether they have been used intentionally or casually.
 This paper shows that T.S. Eliot utilizes phonoaesthetic features i.e., consonance and assonance as stylistic features to add musicality and emphasis on certain phrases and words. It also confirms the hypothesis of this article that plosives consonants and close front vowels are heavily used and most frequently by (114) and (112) times for /s/ and /t/ and (77) and (85) times for /e/ and /i/.
Highlights
The paper is mainly concerned with the phonoaesthetic features such as consonance and assonance which are the phonetic devices manifest themselves in the study
The consonance utilized in the following sounds: /t/ sound is highly frequent by (64) reps, /s/ sound with (50) reps, /n/ with (38) reps and /d/ sound with (23) reps. while the assonance presents in the following sound: /e/ with (33) reps, /i/ sound with (28) and /i:/ sound with (18) reps
While assonance is highly represented in Conclusion Issues on consonance and assonance are tested in this research and it could be summarized as follows: 1. Theoretically and as poetic language is essentially relay on auditory criterion, phonoaesthetic devices such as consonance and assonance can be recognized by poetry listeners
Summary
It can be concluded that the six functions of language enable humans to send and receive messages. One of these functions is ‘poetic’ which focuses on the message and it can be found in poetry. Some of the www.psychologyandeducation.net main devices which can be analyzed are syntactic, semantic, phonological and graphological. As it is known, there is a strong connection between poetry and phonology. T.S. Eliot in particular, connects literature with phonological features such as consonance and assonance to show the interwoven relations between the two disciplines. What kind of consonance and assonance does T.S. The paper seeks to argue the following questions: 1.
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