STYLISTIC PATTERNS OF FOREGROUNDING IN NIYI OSUNDARE’S WORKS

Abstract

The study of style and the language of literature are some of the most traditional applications of linguistics. At the present time, linguistic analysis of literature is one of the most active and creative areas of literary studies. Osundare’s interest in innovative style is conveyed in his ardent interest in the use of language. The avalanche of critical responses to his style, and the diverse conflicting stances, as well as the influencing factors of its brilliance, relevance and success in part, necessitated this discourse. Attempt is thus made to sample some of the literary and oral devices the poet employs in his poetry. Osundare has in his own special way imbibed a stylistic feature which is a characteristic of sound employed in most of his poems, hence reducing their complexity.    In being engaged in literary stylistic criticism, one may choose to view stylistics as the study of various styles foregrounded in various language uses.