Stylistics Of Poetry: A Practical Approach

Stylistics is a branch of Applied Linguistics and deals with the various levels of language – graphological/phonological, lexical, syntactic, and semantic/discourse. In this book, each level is lucidly explained with relevant theoretical concepts, and they are practically applied to two poems as model-exercises. With the evidences explicitly available and insinuations implicitly conveyed in the text, each poem is insightfully examined through a linguistics lens to explore the stylistic nuances embedded in it. It can be exciting and interesting to anyone interested in the English language and poetic style in addition to students of literature.

D. Gnanasekaran (1952) has an MA in English, MPhil in Stylistics of Poetry, a PhD in ELT and PG Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication (IGNOU-Gold Medalist) besides his 40 years' collegiate teaching and research experience. He is a bilingual writer, poet, critic, translator, book reviewer, communication skills consultant, broadcaster, and has given numerous invited talks at National and International Conferences.

He has authored Indian Writing in English Today: Insights for the Future (2014), a collection of critical essays on contemporary Indian Literature in English. His translations include The Madcap (2015), a collection of poems of the well-known Tamil poet, Kavikko Abdul Rahman and The Girl My Age (2017), a collection of Tamil poems by Thamizhachi and Dr. T. Ramanayagam: A Biography (2017).

His research articles have been widely anthologized, and his poems, short stories and numerous translations of works of various genres have appeared in journals and magazines.

His collection of poems, Roots and his collection of short stories, Are You My Dad? And Other Stories are in print.