Poetry in Style: A Stylistic Analysis of Rizwan Akhtar's Poems

The current article is an attempt to carry out the stylistic analysis on two poems from Rizwan Akhtar’s collection of poetry, Lahore, I Am Coming. The stylistic analysis has been meticulously presented in a way that readers get to know the pattern and levels on which it has been laid out. The study combines the stylistics features along with devices (Figurative devices, stylistics devices and Rhetorical expressions) in it. The main emphasis has been focused on the use of diction of poet and certain other figurative devices. This article makes its contribution towards the devices such as, simile, metaphor, personification, assonance, consonance, and alliteration. The poems have been selected for analysis are illustrated stylistically. Moreover, this article also encompasses the themes of the poems which afflict the nature of the poems. The questions related to the diction and the rhetoric devices used by Akhtar have been acknowledged and addressed employing the formalist framework. The study may take readers into the depth of writer’s feelings and his ordeal experience of love and other trivial issues on which he has magnificently talked about. The analysis of the selected poems Love Signs In and Love in Times of Load Shedding provide a systematic insight about the manner and nature of Akhtar’s use of diction and rhetoric devices. The undertaken study may assist the students, scholars, and the researchers who are particularly interested in the field of language and literature.