An Investigation into Stylistic Devices in Emily Dickinson’s and Sylvia Plath’s Poetry

Abstract

This paper focuses on the use of stylistic devices in Emily Dickinson's and Sylvia Plath's poetry. It differentiates between the phonological stylistic devices as alliteration, consonance and semantic stylistic devices as simile and personification. The study is carried out on five randomly selected poems from each poetess using the mixed modal research with the tool of tabulation to quantify the findings. Qualitative approach is used for analysis. The analysis provides a clear picture of the use of stylistic devices in Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath's poetry.

Stylistic Analysis on Walter Savage Landor’s ‘Acon and Rhodope; Or, Inconstantly’

“…The findings of this current research enriched and supported the findings of the study conducted by Zia (2017) and Bukhari and Asgher (2017). Zia (2017) revealed that there are 8 major levels of stylistics.…”

“…Meanwhile, Bukhari and Asgher (2017) showed that Sylvia has used more alliteration as compared to Emily. In contrast, the findings of this research showed that Walter Savage Landor"s "Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstantly" used two major stylistics devices including grammatical categories in form of archaic words and figures of speech categories in form of imagery.…”

“…To provide the originality of this research, the writer intends to present the previous research that deals especially with stylistics in general. The previous research has been conducted by Zia (2017), Bukhari and Asgher (2017) (Cohen et. al., 2007, p. 205).…”