The portrayal of women and children is essential to many classic novels, film and poetry. Presenting women and children in a particular light can have a profound effect upon a text, completely altering a reader’s interpretation. Within both literature and film, women tend to be conveyed as either a victim, saviour and more commonly than not, a predator. The first mirrors fragility, vulnerability and innocence. The second reflects the good, usually the character the reader perceives as their safety
background of a painting. The theory of foregrounding is probably the most important theory within stylistic analysis, and foregrounding analysis is arguably the most important part of the stylistic analysis in poetry. And it is realized through linguistic deviation and linguistic parallelism.This paper aims at exploring the aspects foregrounding inE.E.Cummings' " Love is a place" and Lord Alfred Tennyson's " Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white." In his essay "Language In Literature: Style