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Advances in Language and Literary Studies
ISSN: 2203-4714 
Vol. 7 No. 4; August 2016 
 
 
Australian International Academic Centre, Australia 
 
A Road to Aesthetic Stylistics
Samir Al-Sheikh 
Department of English, College of Education, University of Misan, Iraq 
E-mail: [e-mail] 
Doi:10.7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.4p.95
Received: 09/03/2016
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.4p.95 
Accepted: 12/05/2016 
 
Abstract
Being a linguistic phenomenon, poetry is marked by the defamilarization of language in a poetic discourse there is an 
aesthetic distortion
of the normal codes, in which the aesthetic value is the most prominent function of the poetic 
texture . This study is a new adventure in correlating linguistics to aesthetics by and through the so-called approach 
Aesthetic stylistics
( As). Aesthetic stylistics is the application of the theory of beauty to the 
intentionally violated
components in literary text. It proceeds with the hypothesis that John Keats's 
Ode on a Grecian Urn 
and Kabbani's 
Maritime Poem 
are 
disinterested
poetic experiences which create ecstatic responses to the reader's awareness, therefore, 
the judgment of the reader's taste is aesthetic. The study aims at highlighting the stylistic-aesthetic factors which 
generate the judgment of taste. While drawing heavily on the 
aestheticism 
of the Prague Linguistic Circle and Halliday's 
Functional Linguistics (FL),
or what has come to be called the 
Traditional European 
Functionalism, the study will 
analyze Keats' Ode and Kabbani's poem in terms of Kant's 
Kritik der Urteilstraft, KdU
. The two circles of the linguistic 
description and aesthetic interpretation will be internally interlinked to create the coherence of the stylistic process. The 
study consists of an introduction, two parts, one in theory and the other in analysis; it is eventually rounded up with 
concluding remarks elicited from the semiotic quest.