Bael Students Critical Thinking Skills and Stylistic Devices through Poem Analysis

Stylistics is consoled with the study of textual style. Aside from focusing only on the aesthetic of the text, Critical Thinking must also be observed. Many studies have shown that most of the students throughout the world are having difficulties when it comes to stylistic analysis through stylistic devices as well as critical thinking. In connection, this research aims to determine the analytical and critical thinking skills of the respondents through a poem analysis. Various research dealing with stylistics or critical thinking has already emerged by using a poem. With the use of questionnaires, the data were gathered accordingly. The findings show that the entire population was divided into segments. The respondents are competent in Stylistics Analysis as to Bound Morphemes (91%-Outstanding); free morphemes (81%-Satisfactory), and consonance (79%-Fairly Satisfactory). However, they have failed in consonance (31%-Did not Meet Expectations), rhyme (36%-Did not Meet Expectations), and repetition (20%-Did not Meet Expectations). In addition, the result also showed that the respondents are not competent in Critical Thinking Skills, with percentages in the sub-skills as to evaluation (24%-Did not Meet Expectations), inference (95%-Outstanding), and analysis (51%-Did not Meet Expectations). It is understood that there is no significant relationship between the respondent’s Analytical Skills in Stylistics Devices and Critical Thinking Skills. The researchers highly recommend having literary instructional material dealing with stylistic analysis, comprehensive workshops for literature, as well as training and seminars to improve the student’s learning in terms of stylistic devices and critical thinking.