• Ranjan Gogoi

Reading poetry has always been a great source of pleasure. Poetry, being an indispensable genre of literature, occupies a special place in educational curriculum as well as in our real life. It has been defined by many literary critics and scholars through the ages with the view of determining its aim and function. Of course the aim of this paper is not to define poetry or mention its aim and function, but to highlight the effectiveness of teaching-learning process of literature, especially poetry, focusing on the foregrounded linguistic features of a given poem. Here, an attempt is made to analyse a few sonnets of Shakespeare from stylistic perspectives that would definitely help a learner to apprehend the essence of poetry. This paper aims at finding out the effectiveness of the implementation of stylistics in teaching Shakespearean sonnets highlighting some linguistic aspects that can be discussed in the class-room of undergraduate level.

Poetry, Shakespeare, Sonnets, Stylistics, Foregrounding.

"A Stylistic Approach to Teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnets", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.2184-2189, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905U08.pdf

"A Stylistic Approach to Teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnets", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp2184-2189, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905U08.pdf