Foregrounding: A Stylistic Analysis of Niyi Osundare's Selected Poems

摘要

The aim of this study is to discover the use of foregrounding as stylistic instrument in Niyi Osundare's (1986) The Eye of the Earth where five Poems are extracted for the purpose of this study. Among other findings, the study uncovered the peculiar use of foregrounding and the features embedded in such unique way. It equally brings to the fore, the heavy use of deviation in drumming home the themes of the selected poems. The analysis is done at the graphical, phonological and syntactic level. The study employed Burke's(2014) functional stylistics to analyze the devices identified in the selected poems.