analysis of poem

To analyze a poem stylistically, we can analyze the poetic device, which is usually deviation and foregrounding, that the poet used in the poem. The term foregrounding refers to an effect brought about in the reader by linguistic or other forms of deviation in the literary text (Leech, 1985).In poem, devices of foregrounding and deviation are always used to draw reader’s attention and impress the readers. In the aspect of deviation and foregrounding, there are some perspectives on the nature of poetic language. The first one is on the phonological level (phonological deviation). It is the sound system of a given language and the formal rules of pronunciation. (Aslam, Mukhtar & Sarfaraz, 2014) The second one is on the graphlogical level which is the study of a language’s writing system and the appearance created by using capital letters, ellipsis and so on in the poem. The third one is on the grammatical level (or morphological deviation). It is a method to analyze the sentence structure in the poem. Then is the lexical level (also called semantic deviation) which study the way in which individual words and idioms tend to pattern in different linguistic context and the meaning of the poem. (Aslam, Mukhtar & Sarfaraz, 2014) All of these perspectives are important in poem stylistic analysis. But here, in this essay, it would focus on discussing how the use of sound and rhythm (phonological deviation) covey the complement meaning by using the poem ‘Late For School’ by Jenny Myers. Sound dimension of language belongs to speech. (Jeffries & Mcintyre, 2004) Poetry is written literature, it is less likely to be read of spoken. However, since poetry is in written form, the written equivalent of the phonological level can be much more liberally and usefully exploited. (Jeffries & Mcintyre, 2004). Actually there is a close relationship between written and spoken language. In the case of poetry, some techniques are used to make the meaning of the poems more easily to be