Stylistics and Tenyimia Invocation Poetry

Stylistics
As a branch of literary study, literary criticism is concerned with defining, classifying, expounding and evaluating works of literature which has led to the construction of several theories, which in turn have raised numerous questions on meanings, ideas propounded, realism, the reader and his response, the context of the literary text as well as the text itself. In order to make literary criticism explicit, formal, objective and publicly demonstrable, the discipline called Stylistics, which is concerned with the resources of a language code for the production of messages, came about. It is concerned with these variations in language. Literarily, the term 'Stylistic' is in use since the early nineteenth century. It is applied to critical procedures which embark upon 'objective' or 'scientific' analysis rather than 'subjectivity' or 'impressionism' in the analysis of the style of literary texts (Abrams 1985:283). H.G. Widdowson defined Stylistics as "the study of literary discourse from a linguistics orientation" (1975:3), while Fowler termed it as "any analytic study of literature which uses the concepts and techniques of modern linguistics" (1973:238).