Open AccessStylistic Analysis of the E. E. Cummings’ “Humanity i love you”
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
univeristy of chitral journal of linguistics and literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-1512
pISSN - 2617-3611
DOI - 10.33195/jll.v3i2.120
Subject(s) - humanity , poetry , repetition (rhetorical device) , theme (computing) , literature , parallelism (grammar) , stylistics , sarcasm , philosophy , art , linguistics , theology , irony , computer science , operating system
This study deals with the stylistic analysis of E.E. Cummings’s poem "Humanity i love you". This study is dealt with under the level of lexicology, graphology, and parallelism in stylistics. The qualitative method has been applied in the analysis of the poem in which the data are collected from primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. The analysis of these features is helpful to comprehend the basic theme of the poem that is complete sarcasm and ironic. The first free clause "Humanity i love you" repeats several times ironically in the poem but at the end of the poem this structural repetition is being juxtaposed and parallelized with what the poet actually wants to say “Humanity i hate you”.