IDEOLOGICAL DEPICTION OF LOSS IN FOUR FACES OF LOSS.

Poets often use different tools and vocabularies to describe their ideologies and literary influences. Jeffries suggests various textual-conceptual tools to explore how texts are used to persuade and affect readers to adopt certain ideologies. Utilizing Jeffries' tools, the current paper aims to qualitatively investigate the ideologies presented in „Four Faces of Loss''. Then, some research questions are raised: Is the language used in the four poems extracted from „Four Faces of Loss'' ideological? How do these four different poets, with different backgrounds, use language to convey ideologies? How are the textual-conceptual functions used to express ideology or affect the reader? The study concludes that different textual-conceptual functions have been used by the poets each to express an ideology or to affect readers. Various words or expressions are used to reflect the poet's aspect of loss in one way or another. The four poems are knitted in a way to affirm that the use of language in these poems intends to awaken the feeling of loss of identity, belonging, oneself, etc., to express fear, doubt, distrust, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]