Features of Foregrounding in the poetry of E. E. Cummings with special Reference to his ” 50 Poems” 1940;

This study is an attempt to explain and illustrate that studying and analysing the language of a literary work of art can be a proper means to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the writer’s arristic and aesthetic achievements.Edward estlin cummings ( 1894 - 2962 ) is one of the prominent poets of the united states.His first major appearance as a poet was in the first issue of the dial. This study is divided into five chapter and a conclusion.Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter that is deoted to showing the relationship between lingusistice and the study of literature and how far linguists contribute to the study and understanding of literary texts.Chapter 2 is devoted exclusively to study of the concept of foregrounding as illustrated by jan Mukarovsky, the prage school linguists,and other modern linguists such as leech and fowler.Chapter 2 ends with an attmpt to point out the relationship between the concept of foregrounding and cummings’ theory of technique.Capter 3 is then devoted exclisively to the study of lexical features of foregrounding such as affixation’ compounding ’ lexical conversion’ metaphor’ types of unusual collocation, coupling and frequently occurring lexical items.Capter 4 the grammar of a language as a formal system whose rules generate ” alland only”Parallelism’ as a feature of foregrounded syntactic regularity, is also dealt with it significant to note that parallelistic patterns are used as a vehicle to convey cummings’ unique vision .Chapter 5 is devoted to the study of typographical and phonological features of foregrpunding in the poetry of cumming.The innovations of cummings at the phonological level are fully investigated and analysed.