Linguistic techniques in Dylan Thomas's 'After the Funeral : 'a stylistic study

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The present paper examines Dylan Thomas's 'After the Funeral' based on linguistic and expressive choices; and how he manipulates a heightened rhetorical and poetic style as well as his ability to select individual expressions to expose a strong individual response in recording his personal grief for the death of his aunt his contempt for the hypocritical mourners.

Poetic sentences require a special composing system that embraces tone, style and structure to organize their elements distinctively, and ultimately will have direct influence upon readers.

The poetic composition is attributed to the poet's cultural and knowledge mastering that enables him to display a strong personality at the level of words, phrases and sentences.