In Book Nine of The Confessions, Augustine confessed rhetoric itself. Augustine had been a well-respected professor of rhetoric until, upon his conversion, he decided that his vocation as a “ salesmen of words in the markets of rhetoric”(9.2.2), was incompatible with his new-found religious beliefs. In no uncertain terms, Augustine confessed that his conversion to Christianity compelled him to abandon his “seat of mendacity” (9.2.4) in favor of a holier calling. Does Augustine’s dismissal of rhetoric
borrowed by stylisticians from art criticism, which distinguishes between the foreground and the 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