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Vol 20 (Issue6): pp. 228-237 [http://ilkogretim-online.org](http://ilkogretim-online.org)  \ndoi: : 10.17051/ilkonline.2021.06.026  \nStylistic Analysis of the Poem “A Dream Within A Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe  \nMuhammad Imran1 ,Muhammad Ansar2, Yaseen Baig3 and Syed Alamdar Nabi4  \n1: Assistant Professor (PhD), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khwaja Fareed UEIT, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan.  \n2: Department of Humanities, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari, Pakistan  \n3: Research associate, Department of Humanities, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari, Pakistan.  \n4:Assistant Professor(PhD),Emerson University Multan, Pakistan  \nCorresponding author: Dr. Muhammad Imran  \nDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khwaja Fareed UEIT, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan. [Email: m.imranadeel@gmail.com](Email: m.imranadeel@gmail.com)  \n[Cell:](Cell:) +92-333-690-60-90  \n\n| Abstract\u003Cbr>This paper analyses the text of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, A Dream Within A Dream, on three different levels of stylistic analysis: Pragmatical, phonological, and morphological. The purpose is to unveil the literal and cryptic aspects of the poem to develop a systemic interpretation, which is to understand poetic expressions crafted artistically by employing devices of alliteration, assonance, consonance, and rhyme scheme. As it emerges out, the understanding of different stylistic devices furnishes the explication of the poem for themes, views, images of the materialistic world, and lack of power of being human.\u003Cbr>Keywords: Style and stylistics, Pragmatics, Morphology, Phonology, Linguistic features, literary elements |\n| --- |\n| Preliminaries\u003Cbr>Style and Stylistics\u003Cbr>Style is the way in which something is written or said. Style varies from one writer to another even for a same writer’s style slightly varies in his/her two different pieces of writings.Pretorius and Swart define style as “Style is a way in which a writer utilizes the linguistic means at his disposal to produce a definite effect on the reader” (Pretorius, 1982) .Leech and Short have also defined it as “the linguistic study of style”. According to Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Style is used merely to refer to the selection and ordering of language (Warren, 1943: 605) . Lucas (1955) argued, “The effective use of language, especially in prose, whether to make statements or to rouse emotions. It involves first of all the power to put fact with clarity and brevity.” Gleason defines style as 'Style as the patterning of choices made within the option presented by the conventions of the language (Gleason, 1965: 405) . Hockett describes that style is two utterances in the same language which convey approximately the same information but |\n\n228  \nMuhammad Imran ,Muhammad Ansar, Yaseen Baig, Syed Alamdar Nabi Stylistic Analysis of the Poem“A Dream Within A Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe  \nwhich are different in their linguistic structure can be said to differ in style (Hocket, 1958: 556) . For instance two expressions of the same language which are giving same  \ninformation but differ in structural phenomenon can be called style:  \na. He came to soon, and He arrived prematurely  \nb. My parent is going to his heavenly home, and My father is dying  \nAbove in the example ‘a’ the first expression is very simple while the second is concrete but both sentences representing the same idea. Similarly example ‘b’ proposes the same meaning in both sentences but the first sentence is constructed in an artistic ring and giving an aesthetic impression. Thus, style becomes the astonish way of representing text with various packed linguistic features to convey messy, complex and abstract viewpoints.  \nStylistic analysis in linguistics allows identifying the significant usage of patterns in speech or writing. It mainly focuses on to classify the intrinsic elements and features of language. These elements are inserted as an integral part of the text, tha","cbCaifBhX3Po8Elh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifBhX3Po8Elh","pdf",328446,"English","# Preliminaries\n## Style and Stylistics\n## A Dream Within A Dream: Summary\n## Objectives of the Study","[{\"question\":\"How many levels of stylistic analysis does the paper use for A Dream Within A Dream?\",\"answer\":\"The paper applies three levels: pragmatical, phonological, and morphological analysis.\"},{\"question\":\"Which stylistic devices does the study highlight in interpreting the poem?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes devices such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, and the rhyme scheme to support interpretation.\"},{\"question\":\"What themes does the paper associate with the poem on surface and deeper levels?\",\"answer\":\"On the surface, the poem relates to love, grief, and isolation, while deeper levels connect it to frustration, failure, and the lack of power of being human.\"}]","Stylistic Analysis of the Poem - A Dream Within A Dream - research paper | PDF",25]