FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND SYMBOL IN POEMS “SHE DWELT AMONG THE UNTRODDEN WAYS”, “WOMEN”, AND “HOMAGE TO MY HIPS”

Authors

  • Agung Firmansyah, S.S
  • Yan Ardian, S.S., M.Pd

Abstract

This study aims to demonstrate some insight from the study of literary works that are only limited to the literary genres of poetry. And this study only focused on the analysis of figurative language and symbols that exist in poems. This study took the poems from three different poets. William Wordsworth, Nikki Giovanni, and Lucille Clifton. William Wordsworth's poem entitled "She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways", Nikki Giovanni entitled "Women", and the latter took the lead author of poems by Lucille Clifton's "Homage to My Hips". Of the three poems, the authors take a similarity in the core of the poems that speak of the character of a woman. The methods used in conducting this study the authors used qualitative methods derived from the theories of literary experts. Sources of data obtained by the author is the source of data that can be verified. In this study demonstrated that the literary form of poetry which is only limited by the analysis in the style of language and symbols shown to be used as a medium of analysis in search of meanings and symbols contained in the words contained in the poems in order to obtain analytical results precise, clear, and in the context of the poet's poems.

 

Keywords       : Literature, Poetry, Figurative Language, and Symbols

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Published

2017-04-12

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2013): Paradigma Lingua: Jurnal Penelitian Bahasa dan Sastra

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