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A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE BUS BY ARUN KOLATKAR
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Author(s):
METKARI HANMANT ASHOK
Vol - 7, Issue- 3 ,
Page(s) : 5 - 14
(2016 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/BBSSES
Abstract
The present paper titled ‘A Stylistic Analysis of The Bus by Arun Kolatkar’ is concerned with carrying out a stylistic analysis of the selected poem ‘The Bus’. The Bus belongs to the collection of poems titled Jejuri. Jejuri was written by Arun Kolatkar. It consists of 31 poems, each dealing with different aspects of the place called Jejuri in Maharashtra. The poem offers a variety of linguistic peculiarities and hence is selected for its stylistic analysis. This paper adopts close reading and textual analysis of linguistic aspects, such as phonological, lexical, semantic, syntactic and graphological, as a method of textual and stylistic analysis of the poem under consideration. It is further claimed that the meaning of a text is the fusion of all the above mentioned levels present in every text. Hence all individual linguistic categories, such as sounds, words, sentences and their meanings and the arrangement of words and sentences on the actual pages, complement one another and convey a complete message. First, the phonological or sound patterns of a poem are analyzed because they tend to contribute to the overall tone and meaning of the poem. Second, Coleridge defines poetry as “best words in best order”.
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