DEFAMILIARIZATION IN E.E.CUMMINGS’POEM “SPRING IS LIKE A PERHAPS HAND”

One of the literary aspects of Russian Formalism is the concept of defami-liarization.It can be defined as:a renewed awareness of reality achievedthrough new word combinations,images, symbols, metaphors, and word struc-tures. Language is made strange or unfamiliar through this process. Whatmakes literary works powerful and everlasting is its differences from full reality.As Victor Shklovsky puts it, art defamiliarizes things that have become habitualor automatic. Though Russian Formalism stresses too much the importance ofform, it has laid a foundation for modern structuralism and helps develop semio-tics. The concept of defamiliarization is well appreciated and successfully used