STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE POEM “ILLEGAL MIGRATION” BY MUHAMMAD RIAZ GOHAR

Style varies from text to text depending on various factors like the form, meanings, grammar and structure. Stylistic analysis examines various aspects of the style of a text. This article aims to analyze Muhammad Riaz Gohar's poem “ILLEGAL MIGRATION” from a stylistic point of view. The analysis is made under the aspects of graphological, syntactical, semantic and phonological patterns. This analysis is helpful in understanding the basic concept of poem that is the fears of the poet related to his teenagers of his nation. He wants to say them that the illegal migration is the path of death. Furthermore it highlights the difference between ordinary languages used in daily life compared to the literary language that is used in poetic text. This depicts the variation in style and the impact of this variation on the reader.