Literary Structure and the Study of Poetic Language

In the stylistic examination of a literary work use may well be made of all previously mentioned contextualizations, both extratextual and intratextual. This 'reading with a sense for continuity, for contextual coherence, for wholeness'2 must be an essential part of stylistic study; it is a necessary check on the equally necessary discreteness which any aspectual ivork on a text, linguistic or otherwise, requires. When examining style, and using linguistics in so doing, the analyst should, we believe, not only take into account linguistic features in isolation, but also consider their relation to other aspects of the text and its contextual setting. Otherwise his final statement will be merely linguistic

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