Stylistics

How do poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon present their ideas of war in their poems, Exposure and Does It Matter? Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are two famous war time poets, who conveyed their first-hand experiences of war through the form of poems to enlighten people towards the reality of war, as shown in “Exposure” and “Does It Matter?”. Exposure is an emotionally powerful poem that expresses the reality of the brutal weather conditions that were endured by the soldiers in the front line, and the mental and physical toll it took on their bodies; it shows this through its uses of vivid imagery, repetition and rhetorical questions that effectively recreate the scene in the eye of the reader. On the other hand, Does It Matter? is an ironical poem that mocks the unrealistic expectation society has towards soldiers and how unaware they are of the brutality of the situation as they continue to glorify its true effects. In “Exposure” Owen uses a range of powerful and empathetic language to make an impact on the reader right from the start of the poem in hope that they will fully understand the horrors of the conditions of war. Throughout the poem he speaks in 1st person, using the word “our” to make it seem as if he is speaking as a unified voice for the pain of all the soldiers, which makes it seem like less of an opinion and more of a mutually agreed statement. This is shown as he begins the poem with the opening phrase “our brains ache”, which implies the mental…

The Style of Beowulf A consideration of the stylistic features in the classic poem Beowulf involves a study of the poetic verse, the vocabulary, alliteration, litotes, simile, kennings, variation and double-meaning or ambiguity. The poetic conventions used by this poet include two half-lines in each verse, separated by a caesura or pause. The half-lines are joined by the oral stressing of alliterative words in the half-lines, both consonants and vowels (Tharaud 34).…

Stylistic Choices in Rhetoric There is something about grandma’s secret recipe, or the one from the classy restaurant, or even the kind from the can, that people find enjoyable about soup. One may ask, what are the characteristics about soup that draws people to it? Soup is diverse in its appeals, simple or exotic in its ingredients, light or creamy in its broth, and casual or formal in its purpose. The chef is the ultimate decision maker in all these factors. A chef’s artistry is similar to…

Literary Stylistics and the Creation of Weariness in “The Weary Blues” This paper will focus to use the relative knowledge of literary stylistics, deviation and foregrounding to analyze Langston Hughes’s poem “The Weary Blues”, and use strong evidence from the poem to support the argument of Hughes’s use of literary stylistics to create and highlight the sentimental elements of weary in this poem. The weary sentimental elements are significant to the theme of this poem. Blues is the music in…

Third-person limited narration and first-person present tense/retrospective narration are two different types of narrations used in literature. These narrations can be seen in Uplike’s “A & P” and Cheever’s “The Swimmer”. “A & P” is about a man named Sammy who works in a grocery store. He notices a group of three girls dressed in bathing suits walk in. As they walk around the store, Sammy cannot stop looking at them. As the story progresses, Lengel, the manager, ends up telling the girls they…

Table 1 Stylistic features studied following the critical reception of Hemingway’s style Critical Reception Linguistic Features -Meyers (1982, p. 5) ‘his classic style, stripped of adjectives is bare, sharp and direct’ - Paul (1999, p. 3) admires Hemingway’s ‘short, tight sentences.’ -‘Hemingway’s fiction is strikingly simple and concrete. It is comprised of monosyllabic words arranged in short sentences.’ Available at: <http://www.pages.ykt.ru/miracle/hem.html> Internet accessed on…

Eschewing hypothetical startles and unnecessary intricacies, “East 97th”, the encouraging debut album by Portuguese bassist Gonçalo Leonardo, provides agreeable listenings through the aggregation of well-composed textures within clarified structures. The record was recorded in New York, where Leonardo lived for a couple of years, and features an international quartet comprising the also Portuguese André Matos on guitar, Spanish Yago Vazquez on piano and Rhodes, and American Tommy Crane on drums.…

Chomsky’s quote designates language, but it can also be redirected towards the use of Stylistic Devices, otherwise known as figurative language. These “devices”, have some fixed rules or one may say formulae by the means of which those figurative structures are generated. The structure of the device is fixed, but the means, by which the stylistic effect is created, that one particle with emotional colouring that offers a spectrum of uniqueness to the whole structure,…

2)The point of view is Third Person and the narrator is John Hersey. 3)A tone being demonstrated would be Tragedy since the bomb has fallen on Hiroshima killing thousands of civilians. Hersey describes “the silence in the grove by the river, where hundreds of gruesomely wounded suffered together, was one of the most dreadful and awesome phenomena of his whole experience”(Hersey 36). 4)The setting of Hiroshima is in 1945 in Hiroshima,Japan. 5)The conflict on the story is the ignition of the…

CH19 Question 2 The core stylistic feature of punk rock is that it highly values the simplicity, volume, and speed. The volume and speed contribute its another feature, which is the attraction toward the young generation's attention, because it constructs an anger and rebellion feeling that matches the generation's emotional. On the other hand, the simplicity of punk rock gives it an amateur energy that the textbook state it as "do it yourself (DIY) attitude" (473). Moreover, simplicity is…