Types of Linguistic Deviation in Andrew Marvell's Selected Poems

Deviation is considered as a stylistic type to flourish literary works. Deviation is the irregularities of the regular, a creative way to change the regularities of the language to strengthen the reader's imagination and lead them to new experiences of the same things. Stylistics naturally represents the field as a bridge between Linguistics and Literature which represent Literature as something especial. Artists, of all people, are the ones who involve themselves in these irregularities to create different thoughts in order to alter old perspectives into new one. This paper aims at pointing out different types of deviations in Andrew Marvell's selected poems, "To his Coy Mistress", "A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body", "The Fair Singer", and "The Definition of Love". Andrew Marvell, as a metaphysical poet, had his particular style of inventing brand-new meanings to imply his inner thoughts. The findings show that Marvell uses different types of semantic, grammatical, and phonological deviations to create his aesthetic world and change the contemporary view of dominant ideas that people had been accustomed to at that time. Morphology, syntactic, aphesis, syncope, apocope, oxymoron, paradox, metaphor, simile, metonymy, personification, synecdoche, hyperbole, litotes, and irony are the subdivisions of the Linguistic deviations found in the poems.

Keywords:

deviation , semantic , lexical , grammatical , Andrew Marvell