Foregrounding in Rudyard Kipling and W.H. Davies’s Selected Poems
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Davies, deviation, foregrounding, Kipling, parallelism, repetition.Abstract
This study attempts to investigate the patterns of foregrounding in Rudyard Kipling and W.H. Davies’s selected poems. Somehow, it is difficult to differentiate between these two terms or concepts. The study aims to identify the function of foregrounding in the selected poems. It is divided into three sections. The first one deals with the aesthetic and theoretical frameworks through shedding light on the theories of Theodor W. Adorno and Pierre Zima in the aesthetic framework, while the theoretical one concentrates on the theories of Roger Fowler, Michael Riffaterre, Roman Jakobson, and Geoffrey N. Leech respectively. The second section tackles the application of foregrounding in the selected poems of Rudyard Kipling and W.H. Davies’s. Rudyard Kipling’s poems are selected from the collection entitled The Jungle Book whereas W. H. Davies’s poem Leisure and others are selected from his collection Foliage: Various Poems. Finally, the third section is allocated to the study findings.
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