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nation of the Philippines Tarlac State University COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Villa Lucinda Campus, Tarlac City 73 Poems (A stylistic psycho abridgment) In partial(p) Fulfillment of the Requirements In the course EM9 Introduction to stylistics Submitted to Mr. Christopher Ronn Q. Pagco Instructor 1 (listen) this a chamfer barks and how crazily houses eyeball people smiles 5 faces streets steeples ar eagerly tumbl ing through revere ful sunlight 10 look selves,stirwrithe o-p-e-n-i-n-g atomic number 18(leavesflowers)dreams , screw quickly come 15 offer run with me straightway jump shout(laugh dance cry sing)for its Spring 20 irrevocably and in earth sky trees e genuinely where a miracle arrives 25 (yes) you and I may non hurry it with a thousand poems my darling 30 but nobody forget stop it With All The Policemen In The World (E. E. e. e. cummings, 73 Poems) Introduction Stylistic is very different from studying literature. That is why it is genuinely difficult to do a stylist ic analysis than to do a literary analysis. Because when doing a literary analysis, you just focus on the elements of the story and the theory universe used. It is totally different when doing a Stylistic analysis, which you should always be ground on facts.That is why doing a stylistic analysis is very factual and complicated. In doing a stylistic analysis, we try to explain how the nomenclature in the text create feelings and meanings. I will be analyzing the 73 poems of E. E. cummings. I will show you the stylistic features of the poem. Edward Estlin cummings was born October 14, 1894 in the t throwsfolk of Cambridge Massachusetts. His father, and most constant source of awe, Edward cummings, was a professor of Sociology and Political experience at Harvard University. In 1900, Edward left Harvard to become the ordained minister of the due south Congregational Church, in Boston.As a child, E. E. attended Cambridge public schools and lived during the summer with his family in their summer home in Silver Lake, New Hampshire. E. E. love his childhood in Cambridge so much that he was inspired to relieve disputably his most famous poem, In Just-. Not so much in, In Just- but Cummings took his fathers pastoral background and used it to preach in many of his other poems. In you shall above all things be happinessous and young, Cummings preaches to the reader in verse telling them to love with naivety and innocence, rather than listen to the world and depend on their mind.Attending Harvard, Cummings studied Greek and other languages. In college, Cummings was introduced to the writing and artistic production of Ezra Pound, who was a large influence on E. E. and many other artists in his conviction. After graduation, Cummings volunteered for the Norton-Haries Ambulance Corps. En-route to France, Cummings met a nonher recruit, William Slater Brown. The both became soused friends, and as Brown was arrested for writing incriminating letters home, Cummings refused to disjoined from his friend and the two were sent to the La Ferte Mace concentration camp.The two friends were finally freed, only due to the persuasion of Cummings father. E. E. Cummings experimented with poetic straining and language to create a distinct personal style. A Cummings poem is sp be and precise, employing a few key words eccentrically lay on the page. Some of these words were invented by Cummings, often by extradite two common words into a new synthesis. He besides revised grammatical and linguistic rules to suit his own purposes, using such(prenominal) words as if, am, and because as nouns, for example, or assigning his own clannish meanings to words.Despite their nontraditional form, Cummings poems came to be popular with many readers. Stylistic Analysis Before I grow the analysis itself, let me tell beginning(a) my initial interpretation of the poem. This is my general interpretation of the poem. 73 poems is a handwriting which is a collection of poems by E. E. Cummings. It has 73 pages and each poem does non experience any title. The poem that I will be doing a stylistic analysis is found on page 63. The fact the E. E. Cummings did not make or put a title in each poem gives the reader the permission to give their own title. So for reference, I will use the word Spring as a title.Since, it is the world-class word in the poem written in hood letter. Cummings poems atomic number 18 difficult to interpret because they contain striking irregularities. legion(predicate) of E. E. Cummings poems that I deport read appear to all the joy and new things it brings in life but other works symbolizationizes negativism to mankind. Spring is a reference for a new life. It is a beginning. I have related to it in the life of everyone. After the winter which kitty be a symbol of problems and struggles, we people be happy in the fact that spring is coming which can be a symbol that every problem has its ending and solution.When yo u be somehow forgetting God and not putting Him in the center of your life, it is like everything is wrong. But when you put Him in the center of your life, everything hearms alright. When everything goes wrong just keep your faith. You will feel darned and at ease at all times. And this new life with the manufacturing business is Spring. I came up with this interpretation by merely look at the words and by reading beyond the marchess. Linguistic Stylistic Features I easily noticed that the poem consists of many nouns and verbs. NOUNSMAIN VERBSADJECTIVESADVERBS doglistenwonderfulcrazily housesbarkseasily yestumblingquickly peoplelookirrevocably smilesstir faceswrithe streets spring steeplescome (2x) sunlightrun (2x) leavesjump flowersshout dreamslaugh earthdance skycry treessing miracleis poemsarrives policemenhurry worldstop 192114 The nouns ar broadly speaking concrete and only two ar abstract (dreams and miracle). Nouns that are related to nature are dog, leaves, flowers, earth, sky, trees, miracle and world. Nouns that are related to human are houses, eyes, people, smiles, faces, streets, steeples, dreams, poems and policemen. thither are no neologisms and no morphological deviation which Cummings is strong of using.It makes use of directive verbs which send fores to another person such as (listen, look, come (2x), run (2x), jump, shout, laugh, dance, cry and sing). The most striking aspect of deviation in Spring is the constant use of lower case letters sooner of metropolis letters which is known as the graphological deviation. It is very typical of Cummings poems so I will no largeer give importation to it. Cummings desire is to break the normal convention. The effect of graphological deviation is to sidle up the words which are written in capital letters.Since Spring is the premiere word which is written in capital letter, I can order that it plays a big role in the meaning of the poem. Some of the words are really written in a strange manner. In musical notes 7 and 8, Cummings divides the word tumbling so that the progressive morpheme ing appears on a separate line. In these lines, the verb appears to tumble from one line to the next. I think it is a way for us to understand the action organism done as an important concept in the poem. In lines 8 and 9, the word wonderful runs across the morphemes (wonder and ful). I can interpret it in two ways, the noun wonder and the adjective wonderful.There is astrong element of foregrounding in the last stanza (With All The Policemen In The World) since the words start in capital letters which make it stand out. There is also lack of phonologic correspondence, obvious lack of punctuation and it follows the grammatical ordering which follows the rules of syntax. Perhaps, Policemen is used because they are the stereotype example of powerful people. There is also the second pronoun (you) in line 26 and it has an addressee referred to my darling in line 29. Suggesting that there is a romantic relationship between the speaker and whomever he is referring or addressing to.semantic Deviation In lines 12 and 13, (o-p-e-n-i-n-g/are(leavesflowers)dreams). In line 13, leaves and flowers mean that they are physically orifice. Dreams cannot actually open. It breaks the rule of subject-verb-object. It will be more than assign to say the leaves and flowers are opening. It makes me arrive to the interpretation that the poets dreams are opening metaphorically. In line 2 (this a dog barks). The possible score of this is that this is used to show that the speaker is referring to a specific dog, but a is used to show that the speaker is not sure of the dogs name.Grammatical Deviation Cummings used much punctuation where it would not be necessary. Example is in lines 12 and 13 (o-p-e-n-i-n-g/are(leavesflowers)dreams). This phrase is cosmos bracketed where punctuations are not needed. In lines 3 to 6 (how crazily houses/eyes people smiles/faces streets/ steeples a re eagerly) and in line 22 (earth sky trees) groups of nouns are often run together without punctuation. Cummings split the progressive participial opening into its component letters (o-p-e-n-i-n-g). The hyphens are used to express that opening of Spring is a long, drown out process and slow.The following line (are(leavesflowers)dreams) contains no lacunas between words and punctuation marks. Dynamic verbs such as in line 10 (-look-) which comes with hyphens on both sides, the initial verb in line 14 (,come quickly come) which starts with a comma and in line 11 (selves,stirwrithe) which is connected by a colon and lack of space which makes them foregrounded. Actions are foregrounded in different ways. In line 15 (run run) I noticed that there is repetition of words. In lines 16, 17 and 18 (with me now/jump shout(laugh dance cry sing)for) the verbs occur in unpunctuated list.Tense close to of the verbs are in present tense. The simple present tense are barks (line 2), is (line 9) a nd arrives (line 24). There are present progressive verbs such as are eagerly/tumbling (lines 6, 7 and 8) and o-p-e-n-i-n-g/are (lines 12 and 13). There are also progressive present participles (tumbling and opening) indicates the ongoing nature of action. There are also four adverbs of manner which convey sense of speed (quickly), lighting (crazily, eagerly) and inevitability (irrevocably). Sound Patterns I found the repetition of particular kick the bucket which is in the phonological order.There is a degree of phonological parallelism in each stanza except the last two stanza. There are 3 repetitions of vowel sounds. how crazily houses (line 3) eyes people smiles (line 4) steeples are eagerly (line 6) wonderful sunlight (lines 8 and 9) , come quickly come (line 14) sing) for its Spring (line 19) Conclusion The effect of foregrounding is to make it unusually effortless for us to understand the poem. Actually after doing the stylistic analysis of the poem, I never thought that t he real meaning of the poem is very shallow because on my interpretation is something that is not explicitly shown.And knowing E. E. Cummings of poems most of them or maybe a lot of them entails deeper meaning which you as a reader should really think of the possible interpretation of the poem. And Spring is an elision to that. Now that I have analyzed the poem stylistically, I am in the position to give the meaning of the poem. Spring is an active and energetic poem since most of the words express movements and it involves senses. The poem is to be address to a lover that nobody can stop the love that he feels for the love if his life.It is also to acknowledge the inevitability of the natural world. With All The Policemen In The World expresses that nothing or nobody is able to stop the attainment of Spring or the poets love to his addressee. Reflection Essay Am I able to do it? that is the question that really tickled my mind and bothered me a lot. Stylistic analysis is a ne w endeavor for me. It is very far different from doing a literary analysis and critizing a literary piece which I am comfortable and confident in doing. When I am doing the analysis itself, I can say that the feeling is really vague.It is like I am on something and I do not know where and what to do. I do not know how to start. But as I am on the process of doing the stylistic analysis, I matt-up a part of me feeling fulfillment. The most important thing that I have learned in doing the stylistic analysis is discipline as how foregrounding is the command stone of stylistics. Because I believe that discipline is the corner stone for you to achieve something that you indirect request. Discipline comes from the heart. I know that this is the reason shag why I was able to do my stylistic analysis.I have the heart and the passion in doing this. Patience is also a fairness that I have developed. Because doing a stylistic analysis is a long process. It does not stop on finding and noti cing the foregrounded parts of the poem. You have to show up and say your piece of why and how that part of the poem is foregrounded. You have to go back to the lines on the poem many times. You have also to invest your time in analyzing the poem because you are basing your works on facts and not by merely looking the words on the poem. At first, I admit that I will be having a hard time doing it.But as I go through the process and devising the first move, I found myself having fun and enjoying what am I doing. Doing a stylistic analysis is something that we should not be afraid of. In fact, it is an blowsy thing to do as long as you are manoeuver with the correct steps to follow in doing the analysis. As I did the analysis of the poem, I found myself proud. Proud in the fact that, I unblemished my analysis with my own blood and sweat. It made me somehow feel that I am a certified sylistician even though it was only my first time to do a stylistic analysis.Upon finishing my an alysis, I have reflected that stylistic analysis is like life. It is like the authors of poems. They write poems using their own perspective and style because that is what they like. Nobody is dictating them to do so. Another thing is that doing a stylistic analysis is a process. In this way, life also follows a certain process. A good example of this is that, when you want to achieve something, start from the basic step before you can go to a more difficult one, life is really a process, you cannot get want you want with just a blink of an eye.It is something that we should always work for. The stylistic analysis helped me in many ways. Not only on the virtues that I have developed, the discipline but also the academic value it taught me. It made me see the world of literature vividly. I can say that literature is really an interesting work of art. References http//www. lancs. ac. uk/fass/projects/stylistics/sa1/example. htm http//famouspoetsandpoems. com/poets/e__e__cummings