Manuscript Title:

COHESION IN SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETS AND SAROJINI NAIDU’S FIFTY POEMS

Author:

Dr. JAYASHREE PREMKUMAR SHET, Dr. MAJEDAH ABDULLAH AL AIYED

DOI Number:

DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/B73HS

Published : 2022-04-10

About the author(s)

1. Dr. JAYASHREE PREMKUMAR SHET - Department of English Language and Translation, College of Science and Arts, AnNabhanya Qassim University, Saudi Arabia.
2. Dr. MAJEDAH ABDULLAH AL AIYED - Assistant Professor of English, Department of English Language and Translation College of Science and Arts, Al Rass, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia.

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate cohesive devices in 50 poems of the pioneer poet of Indo Anglican Literature, Sarojini Naidu and 154 sonnets of the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare based on Halliday and Hasan’s theory. (1976) The present paper identified the lexical and grammatical cohesive devices: references substitutions, ellipsis, conjunctions and lexical cohesion that are used in these two collections of poems. With NVivo Word Frequency Results the massive and gargantuan data as well as percentage of each cohesive items were obtained. The research also probes at conducting a contrastive linguistic analysis between these two collections of poems to seek the similarities and differences in the use of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices. NVivo Word Cloud helped find the topmost words in both the collections. The present study attempts to find out the frequency and distribution of the occurrences of the cohesive devices in both the texts. The descriptive qualitative method could arrive at its findings: 1) Like earlier studies this study also found References topping the list of cohesive devices in both: 19.34% in Sarojini’s 50 poems and 21.22% in Shakespearean Sonnets. 2) More than 50% of Naidu’s Lexicon is found in Shakespeare’s sonnets. 3) In both the collections substitution was the least occurred grammatical device, 0.05% and 0.19% in Sarojini’s and Shakespearean poems respectively. A comparison of this kind would inspire researches of massive numbers with NVivo magic software in Linguistics


Keywords

Cohesion, Comparison, Shakespearean sonnets, Sarojini Naidu’s poems