ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#14 | April 22, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Final project for Facilitating a Learner Centered Classroom program at the EDC was a video addressing one subject that faculty…
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#14 | April 22, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036
This paper is written and submitted by Dr.D.Murali Manohar, Head and Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
Introduction:
English language has a particular syntactic structure. If we follow Noam Chomsky who has theorized a fixed pattern of sentences in his book Syntactic Structures (1957) such as NP+VP which means Noun Phrase in the subject position and Verb Phrase in the predicate position. Anything that is beyond is considered as deviance.
Objective:
The objective of this paper is to see how the creative writers especially the poets deviate from the Standard English. The creative writers have their freedom to experiment with the language. They are not people who are to be told how to write sentences using grammar rules etc. They have poetic license especially the poets.
Scope:
The scope of this paper is to explore in a few poets but this is not exhaustive. It can be extended to other poets of New Literatures. In fact the experiment is more aggressive in the new Literatures. (more…)