Formulation of the Problems Objectives of the Research
likely to reveal the secrets of its construction than the language of plays and novels.
As stated by Leech 1981: 14, stylistics has two main goals: to explain the relation between language and artistic function, and to discover the author’s works
through uncertain acknowledgement attribution. In brief, these categorises make stylistics into two types, literary and attributional stylistics. In this study, the
researcher only explains the literary styles because the language of literature is different from the language of everyday life, and also the
author’s language is more difficult to understand than the language of common people. Literary
language may violate or deviate from the generally observed rules of the daily language in many different ways: some obvious, some subtle. Both means that
motives for deviation are worth careful study. Creative writers, and more particularly the poets, enjoy a unique freedom
to range over its entire communicative source. Most of what is considered characteristic of literary language has its roots in everyday uses of language, and
can be studied with some references to these uses. Example of literary styles:
A standard rhyme that might be found inside a conventional Valentine’s card:
Roses are red, Violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet, And so are you
The example of the poem is one of today’s version poem of roses are red, violets are blue poem. The original version was written by Sir Edmund Spencer
1552-2559. He is an important English poet who is famous for writing the epic
poem ‘The Faerie Queen’. This roses poem is kind of literary work contains rhyming. It can be seen from the last word in each line which has the same
pronounciation. The author makes a creative of language to escape from banality. However, to make such a literary style, the author deviates the rules of grammar
in English especially part of speech i.e. the last line And so are you that should be ended by adjective like the three last words in the previous line. The word you is
selected to strengthen the meaning of the poem so it avoids the rules of standard language.
Moreover, literary stylistics finds enough explanation by relating the critic’s ideas of aesthetic appreciation with the linguist’s ideas of linguistic
description. Those two elements, aesthetic appreciation and linguistic description exist in a cycle motion where linguistic observation encourages literary insight
and literary insight does the same thing for a further linguistic observation. This idea is called as “Philological Circle” Spitzer in Leech, 1981:13.
Linguistic Description
Seeking Aesthetic Function Seeking Linguistic Evidence
Literary Appreciation Figure 1: Philological Circle