Abstract:

Linguistics is nowadays a separate discipline; its use in the study of literature has started a new perception in the field of literary criticism. This study presents a stylistic analysis of Hammad's poem "What I Will", in terms of its lexical, morphological, and phonological patterns. It is necessary to mention that stylistics is not only helpful to students of linguistics, literary, and cultural criticism, but it is also beneficial for teachers of English language and literature. However, stylistics considers as a bridge between linguistics and literature; it is the study of tools in languages, such as rhetorical figures and syntactical patterns, that are related to creating expressive or literary style. Thus, stylistics is a field that relates both literary criticisms on the one hand and linguistics on the other.

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