A Linguistic - Stylistic Analysis Of Some Selected Poems In Niyi Osundare's "a City Without People"

ABSTRACT This research effort sets out to examine the stylistic features employed by Niyi Osundare in the poems, “the Language of Pain”, “Death Came Calling”, “with the Nib of a Borrowed Pen”, “The weeping Book”, and “The Lake came to my House”, culled from the anthology titled “A City Without People”. It also aims at analyzing the identified stylistic features, with a view to relating them with how they contribute to the messages of the poems and their readability. This study is done using Systemic Functional Grammar as the theoretical basis. The methodology adopted involved a thorough perusa…