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This paper attempts to demonstrate the appreciation procedure of a poem through its critical textual analysis. The stress of the textual scrutiny is on the use of lexical items in a poem. Word classes like adjectives, pronouns and other content classes are analysed in terms of their length, sound pattern and structural design and in respect of the grammatical features like articles, tenses and others. The balanced and parallel constructions and the rhymes are studied minutely. The poem 'Father Returning Home' by Dilip Chitre is a comment on the dull, drab routine of an alien in the city life of Mumbai. This idea is conveyed through the use of the length and completeness of the lines. Various devices have been mathematically assessed in order to display the use of Stylistics in literary appreciation. The paper brings out the fact that mechanics of stylistic analysis enhance the pleasure of enjoying a poem. It is a practical lesson that uses the art and science of stylistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Conclusively, this is a useful volume that features disparate, yet interdependent chapters on how think tanks operate and different critical perspectives on think tank understanding. Barack Obama had always appreciated the guidance that think tanks could provide, and think tanks sympathetic to Obama's agenda had found the perfect senator to disseminate their ideas. I Critical perspectives on think tanks i is a well-compiled collection that attempts to critically develop scholarship on think tanks internationally. [Extracted from the article]

Book review of Luis Suarez-Villa's Corporate Power, Oligopolies and the Crisis of the State (2015). State University of New York, ISBN: 978-1-4384-5485-6. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]