Stylistic Analysis

Table of Contents

Introduction…………………………………………………………………………3-7

Chapter 1. Stylistic peculiarities of D.H. Lawrence and H.W. Longfellow's

poetry…………………………………………………………………….7

1.1. The use of polysemanticism of the word in combination with

repetition in poems by D.H. Lawrence and H.W. Longfellow………..7-12

1.2. Lingvo-stylistic potential of D.H. Lawrence's "Don'ts"………….12-14

1.3. The main stylistic-semantic features of H.W. Longfellow's poem

"The Song of Hiawatha" (Introduction)……………………………...14-18

Chapter 2. Romantic and lyrical figure of Robert Burns……………………………18

2.1. General stylistic features of R. Burns's poem "My Heart's in the

Highlands"………………………………………………………..18-21

2.2. The style in "My Heart's in the Highlands"………………………21-23

Chapter 3. Lexical, syntactic expressive means and stylistic devices in:………….24

3.1. "Young and Old" by Charle Kingsley……………………………24-26

3.2. "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" by Barnabe Googe…………………26-28

Conclusion………………………………………………………………………29-30

References………………………………………………………………………31-32

Introduction

The theme of the course paper is concerned with the stylistic analysis of five poems by different authors (D.H. Lawrence, H.W. Longfellow, R. Burns, Ch. Kingsley, B. Googe). The issue of stylistics and stylistic analysis has been extensively studied in recent years and the problem of stylistics has been a subject of special interest.

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Various scientific paradigms, trends and methods of stylistics and literary studies have been developed and explored in the works by such prominent scholars of pre-soviet, soviet and post-soviet linguistic schools as Larin B.A., Peshkovsky A.M., Polivanov E.D., Scherba L.V., Galperin I.R., Akhmanova O.S., Arnold I.V., Skrebnev Yu.M., Golovin B.N., Kukharenko V.A., Morohovsky O.M. and many others.

"Thus the term "stylistics" is not old but the discipline originated from ancient Greek and Roman poetics and rhetoric. Modern poetics is a discipline concerned with the structural forms of literary art, both poetic and prosaic, and its crucial problem is: what turns a verbal message into a work of art" [10, p.3].

The term "stylistics" became associated with detailed linguistic criticism because, at the time it developed, the study of authorial...