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چکیده
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The narratives and poems in Marson's works provide a clear insight into the development of women's identity in Jamaican literature. This involves analyzing the societal expectations placed on women and the exclusion they faced in certain spaces. The purpose of the present study was, therefore, was to investigate Distortion of Black Identity in Una Marson's Poems using a critical discourse analysis model. To this end, poems from her last two book collections namely "The Moth and the Star", 1937 and "Towards the Stars", 1945, were taken and the material for the study. The design of the study was qualitative and in order to examine the data, the model proposed by Fairclough (1989, 1992) was utilized. The researcher analyzed these selected poems from poet's critical views of facing issues such as race, color, discrimination, and prevailing images of black womanhood in Jamaica as well as other parts of the world using Fairclough CDA model of analysis. These results prove that careful and attentive application of methodology can bring new meanings to light and uncover hidden ideologies. Throughout the analysis, the results show that there have been frequency differences among all figures of speech, the metaphor is the most frequently occurring figure of speech. Second; rhetoric questions, then symbol, and then simile, hyperbole, personification and repetition have rather similar range of occurrences. The collective use of figures of speech plays a crucial part in establishing the underlying meaning and conveying the ideology of the poem.
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