LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Stylistic Analysis of Iqbal's Shikwah

Sardar Fayyaz ul Hassan

Abstract

Stylistics is a newly developed branch of linguistics. It studies a piece of literature through linguistic choices. It is a link discipline between linguistics and literary criticism. Pedagogical stylistics helps the learners to appreciate a literary text particularly, a poetic piece, in a faithful and objective way. The present paper is a Stylistics analysis of Dr. Mohammad Iqbal's Shikwah, a famous poem which appeared in his book "Bang-e-Dra", the call of the road.

Keywords: Stylistic Analysis, Iqbal's Shikwah, Lexical & Phonological features, Deviation, Semantics

1. Introduction

The aim of this research is to analyse the famous poem of Dr. Mohammad Iqbal Shikwah, (Complaint). The poem is analysed from a perspective of linguistics stylistics. This paper starts discussing the background and points out the research problems. It observes the objectives, states the significance, mentions the Research Methodology and looks into the related literature review. This paper ends with a conclusion that has been drawn on the base of the detailed stylistic study of Iqbal's Shikwah.

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Sardar Fayyaz ul Hassan
M.A., Language and Literature (Pakistan)
Lecturer in English
Buraydah Community College
Qassim University
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

& Ph.D. (Linguistics) Scholar, Atlantic International University
Honolulu Hawaii, USA
sardar_bccqu@yahoo.com
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