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ABSTRACT Halimah. 2015. An Analysis of Figurative Language in Emily Dickinson’s Poem in “The Single Hound” Suryakancana University, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, English Department. This research focuses on finding out what kind of figurative languages that are used in Emily Dickinson’s poems in “The Single Hound” poem and analyzing contextual meaning. Some are metaphor, smile, antithesis, hyperbole, and paradox. This study was designed to follow the principles of qualitative descriptive method. Data were collected form 11 Emily Dickinson’s poems; after reading and understanding the poems, the writer selected figurative language found in Emily Dickinson’s poem. In analyzing the data the writer analyze every figurative language that found in the poem, and the last drawing conclusion based on the result of data analysis. In finding and discussion, the writer found three personifications, one metonymy, one repetition, and one symbolism, in “Adventure most unto itself in “The Soul that has a Guest” there are five personifications in this poem, six Symbolisms, one metaphor, and one hyperbola, in “Except the smaller size, no Lives are round” there are one metaphor and one symbolism, in “Fame is a Fickle Food” there are one metaphor, and nine symbolisms, two metonymies in “The Right to Perish Might be to Thought”, there are one irony, three symbolisms, two metonymies, and one hyperbole, in “Peril as a Possession” there are one metaphor one personification, and one simile, in “When Etna Bask and Purrs” there is one symbolism, in “Reserve cannot Befall hat Fine Prosperity” there is one symbolism, one metonymy, in “To be Alive is Power” there is one personification, in “Witchcraft has not a Pedigree” there are hyperbole and two metonymies in “Exhilaration is the Breeze” there are one metaphor, and one personification. Finally, it is hoped that this study has some benefits to the readers especially to the students who are interested in analyzing the same literary work of English Department is Suryakancana University Key words: poem, figurative language, literature

MATAI: International Journal of Language Education

Figurative language is used to beautify literary work, especially poems. It can make the poems more exciting and unique. But some readers cannot identify the figurative language used in poetry. The poem's readers will read, analyze, and interpret poetry without considering the use of figurative language. The research objectives were to explain the kinds of figurative language used in selected poems by Laksmi Pamuntjak and the use of figurative language in Laksmi Pamuntjak's poems. This is qualitative research with content analysis. This approach offered to analyze data by choosing some poems by Laksmi Pamuntjak, reading the poems, identifying the figurative language used in the poems, then analyzing the figurative language used in the poems. In analyzing figurative language in Laksmi Pamuntjak's poems, the researcher grouped them based on the figurative language used in each poem. In analyzing data, the researcher analyzed every figurative language found in the poems and...

PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education), 2021

The aims of this research are to find out the types and meaning of metaphor in poetry in English textbook entitled “Pathway to English”. The main data of this research are 9 poetry in the English textbook entitled “The Seasons”, “The Little Rose Tree”, “Alpine Glow”, “From Alcuin”, “A Man Young and Old: Human Dignity”, “Love and Friendship”, “Mountain”, “My Star”, and “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”. In this research the researcher applied descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. The researcher used theory of Parera to classify the types of metaphor and also used the metaphor identification procedure proposed by Pragglejaz to identify the metaphors contained in the poetry. The result showed that there are 22 lines that used metaphor, which 16 lines are anthropomorphic metaphor, 3 lines are synesthetic metaphor, 2 lines are metaphor abstract to concrete and 1 line is animal metaphor. The meaning of all these poetry is about life. By using metaphor the poet can also express ...

Sabbhata Yatra: Jurnal Pariwisata dan Budaya, 2021

This research aims to find out the most dominant figurative language that usedin poems of Robert Frost.This study includes to qualitative research with a objective approach to analyze the poems of Robert Frost‟s selected poems. The sources of data is obtained in this study by looking for books and internet that contains about literature and poetry. The writer uses note taking method in the collection of data that is by reading, writing and looking for poems of Robert Frost‟s selected poems related to the formulation of the problems. The technique of analysis of the data is by reading, identifying, understanding, finding, and making conclusion every poems which is analyzed from the poems of Robert Frost‟s selected poems related to the formulation of the problems in the study.The results of the study shows that the most dominant figurative language in the selected poems are two Metaphor, eleven personification, four symbol, three hyperbole, and one repetition. So, it can be coclude th...

2018

The purpose of this study is to get deep knowledge of metaphor; (1) based on the creation of meaning, (2) based on images, (3) based on the meaning of field ecosystem. This study describde the functions of the metaphor in the novel Sepatu Dahlan by Krishna Pabichara. This study used method used content analysis. The approach of this study is stylistic that is part of a qualitative approach. Steps of this research are (a) intensive reading and repeat reading novel that will be researched, (b) make notes every phrase, clause, or sentence of metaphor in the novel (c) identify some things there are in objective of this research and (d) do the analysis and do data interpretation.The results of the data analysis found 48 sentences included in the category of metaphor is based on the creation of meaning, which consists of 8 sentences of blank symbols, 28 sentences of natural symbols and private symbols 16 sentences. While the function of metaphor in the novel of Sepatu Dahlan includes expr...

2019

This article puts into a conceptual research of metaphors in the poems of Hikayat Bulan and Khairan by Husni Djamaluddin. Acknowledging Conceptual Metaphor Theory as the main theory in the field, researchers begin about how metaphors are perceived and analyzed in discourse to allude to their persuasive functions. This article presents a different approach to the analysis of metaphors and their interconnections. This is a descriptive qualitative study using ethnography. The reason for taking this research is because it is curious about the meaning contained in each stanza. Want to prove to everyone that this poem does not contain pornography. This research supported by the instrument is a trial by asking some of our friends to read this poem, what they feel, their expressions, and their thoughts after reading this poem. The results of the trial will be linked to our thoughts and references in the form of journals and books. The result of our data is that it turns out to be true that this poem even though it seems to have pornographic meaning, but the reality is not so precisely the meaning of this poem is about a writer or poet, the process of getting inspired to write into a work. It could also mean the process of a writer making a literary work.

Wanastra: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra

This research has the objectives proposed by the writers, they are: (1) To identify the types of figurative language used in Kelly Darrow's selected poetry, (2) to find out the meaning of figurative language used in Kelly Darrow's selected poetry, and (3) to know the mostly of figurative language that is used in Kelly Darrow's selected poetry in this research. The title of the selected poetry area Charm of Cobra, Politicians and The Black Cape. Figurative language is one of the elements of poetry that has become the poets' way of expressing the art of his poetry and communicating his language to know the poet's idea. Figurative language can include many words and phrases, and there are several types of figurative language. The primary sources of data are the research is conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The data sources of this research are taken from the poetry by Kelly Darrow. Then the writers classify the data using McKenzie's theory of figurative language that support it. The results of this paper shows there are many types of figurative language in Kelly Darrow's selected poetry. Kelly Darrow uses metaphor, simile, irony, personification, and hyperbole as figurative language.

2020

The poem has the role of the media to deliver the author’s opinion, messages, and feeling towards certain phenomena to the readers by using literary language. The idea of those poems needs to be interpreted by the readers and it is dealing with meaning. Problems occur when there is the literary language used by the author since not all the reader can understand the implicit meaning inside the poems which certainly used figurative language, especially metaphor. Thus, the study entitled Metaphorical Expressions in Emily Dickinson’s Poems aimed to find the metaphor inside three poems by Emily Dickinson entitled I Felt a Funeral in My Brain, Because I could Not Stop for Death and I Heard a Fly Buzz – when I Died. This study also aimed to identify the implicit meaning behind those metaphors. In analyzing the data, the researcher used the metaphor theory proposed by Lakoff and Johnson, they are structural metaphor, ontological metaphor, and orientational metaphor. To answer the second res...

Journal of English Language and Culture

This research discusses The Use of Figurative Languages on the Students’ Poetry Semester V at FKIP Universitas HKBP Nommensen. The problems of this research are (1) what types of figurative language used on the students’ poetry semester V at FKIP Universitas HKBP Nommensen Medan? (2) what figurative language is dominantly used on the students’ poetry semester V at FKIP Universitas HKBP Nommensen Medan? The objectives of this research are to find out types of figurative language used on the students’ poetry semester V at FKIP Universitas HKBP Nommensen Medan and to figure out and analyze what figurative language is dominantly used on the students’ poetry semester V at FKIP Universitas HKBP Nommensen Medan?To find out the answer of the problem in this research, the writer uses the related theories; they are Quinn (1982), McDonough and Shaw (1993), Gluckberg (2001), Alm-Arvius (2003), Lazar (2003), Ratumanan and Laurens (2003), Brown (2004), Harmer (2004), Heller (2006), Picken (2007...

2020

Lack of understanding of people about the analysis of poetry and considered analysis is a difficult thing. Researcher focus on three poems, love, and question; Fire and ice, and stopping word ins Snowy Evening. This poem is chosen because his poetry work and is Bild by various figurative language than any other poetry. In addition, the poem also give advice on responsibility and respect. They are four research questions in this study to discuss:1) the types of figurative language used in the chosen point 2) the meaning of the select poem. 3) the theme of poetry 4) the message that can be draw from the poem. The domina figures of speech used in Robert Frost’s poem is selected? To conduct this research, researcher used the theory of Roland Bathes and Julia Kristeva with a structural approach that analysis figurative language in Robert Frost poem. 1) the research finds the figurative language used in the select Robert Frost form; such as symbol, parallelism, climax, personification, me...