The significance of word connotation in interpreting Lord Byron's "the destruction of Sennacherib" : a semantic-stylistic study

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The present study aimsat presenting a semantic-stylistic interpretation of Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib" in terms of the significance of the connotation of the employedlexical items.

Thetheory of Roland Barthes “the French literary critic” is adopted as the theoretical base to emphasize the significanceof the connotative meaning as it is presented through the employed lexical items in the poem.

It is a semantic-stylistic study since it aims at interpreting the poem in terms of the connotative meaning of the employed lexical items in the poem and the way such a meaning is conveyed should be taken in a consideration.

The connotative meaning has been conveyed through comparisons (i.

e.

simile and metaphor).

The paper contains a literature review that refers to the definitions of the word as an element of poetry and what is meant by the semantic-stylistic interpretation.

The paper ends up with several conclusions, an appendix, and a list of references