Stylistic Analysis of “The Spirit of Rumi Appears and Explains the Mystery of the Ascension” Abstracted from “Javid Nama” (1932) Poem by Alama Iqbal

Abstract

This paper presents a stylistic analysis of the section “The Spirit of Rumi appears and explains the mystery of the Ascension” selected from the poem Javid Nama (1932) written by Dr. Alama Mohammad Iqbal. It is hypothesized that English language students find it difficult to understand the English translated version of world literature. This paper provides a complete framework and analysis of the selected Persian work that has been translated into English. The stylistic analysis model of  Leech and Short (2007) has revealed the style of the poet, Iqbal, that he has used simple diction that is close to nature but the expression of the diction is very grand, rhetoric, and poetic. The four-stranded analysis has exposed the use of figures of speech and other literary techniques. The findings based on the analysis have exposed that the poet has used similies, metaphors, alliteration, assonance, antithesis and many more to enhance the themes that have been embedded in between the lines. Poet has incorporated the fundamental yet, intricate themes of mysticism, Sufism, recognition of one’s self by knowing Allah, and the great grand theme of ascension under the guidance of Rumi. So, in this way stylistics analysis can help the English Language students to understand the English translated versions of world literature.

Keywords: Stylistics Analysis, Poetry, Style, Lexical Choices, Phonological Level, Grammatical Level, Graphical Level.