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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 2 (September 2024)pp. 203–223PDF of Rhythmic Form and the Production of Meaning in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry

   Rhythmic Form and the Production of Meaning in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry

   Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke

   organisation of her poems participates in the production of these meanings. This study examines rhythm as a formal principle in selected poems by Brooks, arguing that rhythm is not merely … identity, and representations of social experience. The analysis demonstrates that Brooks frequently adapts the rhythms of ordinary speech while modifying them through repetition, interruption, acceleration, and pause, thereby creating formal

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 442–462PDF of Psychosomatic Expressions in Selected Poems of Maya Angelou and Kamau Brathwaite

   Psychosomatic Expressions in Selected Poems of Maya Angelou and Kamau Brathwaite

   Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke

   Brathwaite have largely focused on Caribbean history, African cultural memory, colonialism, diaspora, nation language, rhythm, and formal experimentation. However, the relationship between psychological experience and bodily expression … psychosomatic perspective. This article argues that bodily imagery, physical sensation, movement, voice, and rhythm in selected poems by Angelou and Brathwaite provide important means through which psychological conflict, traumatic experience