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Full page photoA Road to Aesthetic StylisticsALLS 7(4):95-112, 2016
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And birds appear in the distance
Searching for islands still unborn.
In the blue harbor of your eyes
Snow falls in July.
Ships laden with turquoise
Spill over the sea and are not drowned.
In the blue harbor of your eyes
I run on the scattered rocks like a child
Breathing the fragrance of the sea
And return an exhausted bird.
In the blue harbor of your eyes
Stones sing in the night.
Who has hidden a thousand poems
In the closed book of your eyes?
If only, if only I were a sailor,
If only somebody'd give me a boat,
I would furl my sails each evening
In the blue harbor of your eyes.
(Jayyusi and Elmusa, 1996:8)
A stylistic penetration of the
Maritime Poem
may reveal the most prominent feature, i.e. the nominal group. Not only
that, most of these nominal groups encompass M (H) m and H, in a less degree. These nominal groups, with their
simple and compound structures, are sometimes embedded in verbal and prepositional groups. This is clearly shown in:
·
in
the harbor of your eyes
·
blow
rains of melodious lights
·
dizzy suns and lights
·
birds
·
in
the distance
·
for
islands
·
snow
·
in
July
·
scattered rocks
·
a child
·
breathing
the fragrance of the sea
·
an exhausted bird
·
stones
·
in
the night
·
a thousand poems
·
in
the closed book of your eyes
·
a sailor
·
somebody
·
a boat
·
my sails
·
each evening
The predominance of the nominal group is not the only stylistic characteristic detected in the poem's fabric. A
stylistician may detect the pre-dominance of metaphor as a lexicogrammatical variation of meaning; it is a
lexicogrammatical transfer rather than a semantic one. Metaphor, here and elsewhere function as an expressive and
impressive power to carry the speaker's world view(s). The implicit comparison between the human phenomenon ( the
feminine blue eyes) and the scenic landscape (the blue harbor) does forcefully operates in the veins of the poem.
Metaphors like
, rains of melodious lights
,
dizzy suns and sails
, are synaesthetic. They witness the mixture of human
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