A stylistic analysis of some selected poems of Wystan Hugh Auden's war poetry : a foregrounding- backgrounding approach

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This research paper offers a stylistic analysis of some selected poems of Wystan Hugh Auden's war poetry.

It focuses on four major poems: 'O What is that Sound', 'Danse Macabre', 'Spain 1937' and 'September1, 1939'.

These poems represent the period of the thirties of the twentieth century.

The research shows how Auden skillfully uses the foregrounding-backgrounding approach in presenting his poems.

In so doing, the researcher uses the following theoretical framework: simple repetition, parallelism and deviation.

The research paper investigates mainly these levels of linguistic deviations: discoursal, grammatical and graphological, morphological and lexical, and semantic.

The researcher concludes that Auden is a great poet because his poems could keep him alive even after his death.

His poetry still needs a lot of work.

Key Words: Stylistics, W.

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Auden, Foregrounding, repetition, parallelism and deviation.