A Stylistic Study of Graphological and Grammatical Deviation in Selected English Postmodern Poems

Stylistics is a term that refers to the relation between linguistics and literature. One linguistic technique in stylistics to be applied in literature is a deviation, which means, put, neglecting some of the rules of a language in a piece of literary work. Such negligence, of course, aims at achieving a range of freedom for the writer to deal with the manoeuvring ideas he/she wants to put forward. This paper attempts to study graphological and grammatical deviation in selected English postmodern poems. It hypothesizes that English postmodern poets use graphological and grammatical deviation in their poems to attract their audience. It, therefore, is an attempt to apply these particular types of deviation to the selected poems. The topic is covered through eight sections. Section one presents the introduction concerning the difference between everyday and poetic language. The second section involves definitions of deviation. The third one is about deviation in the sense of poetry. Style and stylistics as two different terms are presented in section four. In the fifth one, graphological deviations are shown with examples. Grammatical deviation and examples are presented in section six. Section seven exhibits the plan of the research. Section eight concerns the analysis of the poems. The paper ends with the conclusions and the list of the references used.Keywords: deviation, graphological, grammatical, poems, postmodern, negligence.