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    A stylistic exploration of Tanure Ojaide's Narrow Escapes, the poetic diary of the Corona Virus pandemic
    (2024) Akanmu, T.M.; Olaleru, O.; Olugbodi, M.T.
    Stylistic analysis deals with the art of using linguistic rules and regulations to characterise a genre of language use. Critical stylistics sets out to uncover how social meanings are manifested through language. This research work elucidates how language is part of creating world views by poets to convey social meanings. This research project focuses on the critical stylistic features identifiable in selected Tanure Ojaides' collection, Narrow Escapes. The data for the study were three randomly and purposively selected poems from Tanure Ojaides' poetic diary of the coronavirus pandemic, “Narrow Escapes”. The poems were analysed using three tenets of the conceptual approach of Critical Stylistics—naming and describing, equating and contrasting, as well as syntactic frames. The study found that the poet uses proper nouns among other features for analogical creation, and other noun types for creating mental images in the minds of the readers and for accurate and precise description of the Covid-19 phenomenon. The poet also made use of spatio-temporal deixis, synonyms, antonyms, borrowing and specific figures of speech to achieve linguistic variation, and reflect his sociolinguistic background. In conclusion, the use of the critical stylistic approach to the analysis of the poems has helped to unravel the the underlying poetic intents as well as the hidden meaning in the lines of the poems.