Foregrounding Features (Deviation & Parallelism) in Poetry of Elsa Kazi: A Stylistic Study
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Keywords

Stylistics, Deviation, Parallism, Anaphora, Epistrophe.

Abstract

This research paper reports regarding the style of Elsa Kazi’s English poetry which manifests lexical and syntactic deviations along with parallel pattern of anaphora and epistrophe. The theory of stylistics by Leech (1969) along with qualitative method of research has been used for the interpretation of data. The data have been collected from her book Terrestrial and Celestial Echoes and it has been analyzed on the basis of documentary method as suggested by Bryman (2004). It has been inferred and found that Elsa Kazi is a unique poet with her structural patterns which create absurdity and strangeness in her language use. In this way, she becomes persuasive poet with rhetorical emphasis and motivational force.

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