A critical stylistic analysis of the ideological positioning in Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “If"
This paper deals with the ideological positioning of the English poet, Rudyard Kipling in a selected poem, entitled “If”, as regards to the theme of the heroic attributes of ―Wisdom, Strength, and Courtesy. The researcher adopts a branch of stylistics, called Critical Stylistics, as proposed by J...
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TECHNIUM
2021
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37198/1/Mona%20Lisa%20Sarbini.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37198/ https://techniumscience.com/index.php/socialsciences https://doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v21i1 |
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| Summary: | This paper deals with the ideological positioning of the English poet, Rudyard Kipling
in a selected poem, entitled “If”, as regards to the theme of the heroic attributes of ―Wisdom,
Strength, and Courtesy. The researcher adopts a branch of stylistics, called Critical Stylistics, as
proposed by Jeffries (2010) in order to uncover the ideologies of the poet regarding the topic
concerned and how linguistic choices are used to display his ideas. The model is comprised of
ten tools of analysis which, upon being applied to the selected poem, have shown how the poet
exploits language resources in order to pass his ideology and influence his readers. In this paper,
the ten tools are presented as applied to the whole poem. The objective of the study is to examine
how Kipling’s poem astonishingly excels in giving advice and how it is easier to give advice
than being guided by it. The model of stylistics used in this analysis also includes in it these
tools that have predominantly been applied to small-scale qualitative analyses. Findings from the
analysis reveal the ways in which sets of beliefs and advice may be structured in the language of
wisdom and compassion, and, more specifically, the ways in which Kipling’s ideological
attitudes and assumptions are embedded in the structure of his poems. Moreover, how this poem
articulates the significance of burying the gap between the generations. The old should instruct
and the young in turn should listen and learn from the experiences of the old. Such ideological
assumptions about listening to the previous generation experiences and have the liberty to abide
by or reject their ways of thinking. |
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