In The Street of the Fruit Stalls by Jon Stallworthy: A Stylistic View

Abstract

This paper gives a comprehensive stylistic analysis of the poem “In the Street of the Fruit Stalls” written by “Jon Stallworthy”. The stylistic analysis of the poem has been done at Lexical Level, Grammatical Level, Figurative Aspects, Cohesion and Coherence Levels. While Graphological, Grammatical, Morphological, Syntactic and Phonological levels are analyzed in detail under the umbrella of Lexical Level according to Leech and Short Model as the current study is carried out by using Leech and Short Model (1981). The poet not only explains financial discrepancy, racial difference, natural vegetation and war industry, but also mentions children’s psyche of innocence at its best. Elements of fear and apprehension are at peak in original text of the poem.