<Dd> John Donne,' The Sun Rising', Poems (1633) </Dd> <P> This language gives the reader a new perspective on familiar themes and allows us to look at them without the personal or social conditioning that we unconsciously associate with them (Widdowson. 1992, 9). So, although the reader may still use the same exhausted words and vague terms like' love',' heart' and' soul' to refer to human experience, to place these words in a new and refreshing context allows the poet the ability to represent humanity and communicate honestly . This, in part, is stylistics, and this, according to Widdowson, is the point of poetry (Widdowson. 1992, 76). </P>

Critical discussion on the concepts of style and stylistics