Literary Stylistics: A Study of Foregrounding in Rita Ogochukwu’s “Sea Side”

Abstract

Since language had been an oil to drive stylistics into the inner most part of humans. Therefore, “To what or to whom do we attributed style?. Style from linguistic point of view is used to describe the way or choice that language makes available to its poets. This means that there exist natural linguistic conventions that users of language select which can be identified in all forms of textsspoken or written, technical or non-technical, professional or popularized Literarily, there are some elements still to unfold either in written form or inform of a poem or orally to expose ones’ foregrounding. This study examines the writing in genres of literature in Rita Ogochukwu’s poem titled: “SEA SIDE” and it’s used qualitative descriptive approach It identifies that the common factors in the poem are predominately for setting an atmosphere of mystery. The study establishes different ways to understand and interprete the mysteries behind the sea side. The study concludes that one’s consciousness can easily be exposed through writing also warns the young to be careful because we know that it is a dream for all lovers, seekers of new born and prophetic eye for all sorcerer. Our goal here is to explain how literary meanings are created by specific language choices and patterning, the linguistic foregrounding, in the text. While stylistics has periodically claimed to be objective, replicable, inspectable, falsifiable and rigorous, and thus quasi-scientific, subjective interpretation is an ineradicable element of such textual analysis.