Figurative Language in Rupert Brooke's Poem

ABSTRACT

Walidain,  Birrul.  2012.  Figurative  Language  in  Rupert  Brooke‟s  Poem. Graduating Paper. English Department of educational Faculty State Intitute for Islamic Studies (STAIN) Salatiga. Consultant: Ruwandi, M. A

Key Word: Figurative language, Rupert brooke‟s Poem.

This research paper is about an analysis of figurative language used in Rupert Brooke‟s poem. The major problems in this study are to know the kind, meaning, and the dominant of figurative language in the Rupert Brooke‟s poems.The primary sources of data are the research is conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. Researcher uses the primary sources of data are the text of poems itself; The Fish, A Channel Passage, Heaven, Menelaus and Helen, and the Great Lover. The method of the data collection is documentation.

Based on the research, the writer concludes that in analyzing literary work, especially for Rupert Brooke‟s poems, the writer uses a part of whole figures of speech; they are simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, symbol, hyperbole, and irony. Based on the analysis, the study reveals that there are many meanings and kinds of figurative language of Rupert Brooke‟s poems. The dominant figurative language that Brooke‟s used on his poems is personification. Brooke prefers to compare informative statement with giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept.

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

As a member of a modern society, people cannot be separated from writing and reading. Writing is an activity used to express imaginations, ideas, and creativities. In addition, writing can also contribute to spiritual and emotional developments. On the other hand, reading is useful because by reading people will get information, knowledge about science, technology, and others.

Some people are more interested in reading a literary book rather than scientific book. This is because of two reasons. First, reading a literary book is just an entertainment for them. They need relax time after they are faced by monotonous and static activities like working and studying. By reading the literary book, they get their own pleasure. Second, reading a literary book makes them see, feel, and understand lives, human beings, and nature better (Koesnoesoebroto, 1980:40). BACA JUGA: Artikel Menarik English

A literary book such as drama, poetry, and fiction is an author imagination of world, life, and experience remarked in words. One of literary books, which is discussed here is poetry. Poetry is the oldest form of literature. A long time ago, when people did not know anything about written language, they got such kind of stories from a storyteller. The storyteller relied many stories in his memory and not in a written language. He was speaking at the common place like markets and the edge of broadways with many people surrounding him to recite his stories. Those memorized stories are what people today called with verse or poems (Barnett, 1963:297).

Poetry is the most condensed and concentrated forms of literature and said in fewer words and in less space. Poets choose words for their sense, but they also choose words for what they hit at or suggest, for the way their sound and for the word pictures they create (Perrine, 1977:9). As one of the oldest genre in literary history, poetry is closely related to the term “lyric”, which derives etymologically from the Greek musical instrument “lyra”, and points to an origin in the sphere of music. In classical antiquity as well as in the middle ages, minstrel recited poetry, accompanied by the lyre or other musical instruments. The term “poetry” however goes back to the Greek word “poieo” ( “to make” or “to produce” ), indicating that the poet is the person who “makes” verse ( Klarer, 1999:28 ). Baca Juga: Artikel Inspirasi Skripsi

Poetry is not a higher kind of reason; it is the first grade of verbalized experience, prior to logic, prior to morality. The world ( wherever is outside ourselves ) makes its impression on us. The mind expresses its intuitions in verbal symbols and that expression is poetry. Poetry is at once the simplest and the most complex form of literary expression.  It  is  simple  in  the  sense  that  is  primitive,  that  historically  it precedes prose literature and represents a more direct and spontaneous method of rendering experience in language than prose. It is free to utilize all the aspect of language, the sound and the rhythm, and associations of words, as well as their intellectual meaning or simple denotation.

The importance of the message in the poem gives a person a voice. This voice can be used to express a variety of things. Often, people use poetry to express how they feel when they think they are misunderstood. Writing lets you see through the eyes of another, and this is why poetry is important. Poetry is real, real people have written it to express real emotion that is normally hidden. Delivery of messages in the poem is not done in a manner swallow, as if readers are not so sensitive and so can not be so foolish attempt to capture the will of the poet himself. The best, is how to bring the work of poets and poetry readers  as  being  in  a  room  or  in  an  atmosphere  which  is  created together. Ask a lot of things together completely honest, because honesty is thus assured that people are together, who each spoke it.

Poetry   has   been   important   because   it   gives   us   a   historical representation  of what  previous  generations  found beautiful,  important,  or profound. It can show us words and concepts from the past. Poetry can even depict historical events. Poets in the past may have written a poem after a big event occurres and by reading their poems, we can see how the event affected everyday people.

Response to the poetry in general are very low. Poetry is in particular read only by few people. The numbers of lovers of poetry are always much less than those who enjoy the modern song like ungu band, sheila on 7, slank, etc. Literature, especially poetry should be directed in order to get as much attention as many enthusiast embrace. But, still on the other hand, that is too ambitious work of literature with a purpose in order to embrace all people.

In general, indifference to the literary society stem from a lack of belief in the benefits of work and the results of that culture. In the mid of life, that  emphasizes  the  primacy  of  economic  and  political  efficiency,  ratio, power, orderliness and security, literature to the attention of meaningless activity. Writer, poet, fiction writer, must convince the reader that there are benefits from the work they produce.

Nevertheless, the language of poem precisely has a specific value for a poet. It illustrates many subjects of life. It is maybe like a poem of Rupert Brooke. The most Brooke‟s theme of poem is about war patriotism in the First World War, but he also has a love, bravery, and mythology. Ordinary persons find some difficulties to say the right sentences to apprehend. Their thoughts and feeling are dealing with their imaginations and experiences. In this case poets have been able to explain it. However, the language of poems is not only amusement and decoration, it aids to the poet‟s message to the readers, also entails social fact, human nature, and personal experiences.

Here, the writer wants to focus on the dominant figurative language used in Rupert Brooke‟s poems. Figurative language is the language that has more than one meaning and produced from creative imagination. It cannot be understood literary because the words are used in non-literal sense.

In poetry, a poet tries to express his idea and imaginations through a medium of language. Since the poet uses a language as the medium of conveying his ideas, it is quite important. Like rhythm and imaginary, figurative language might be to be the province of poetry rather than novel.

Figurative language according to Warinner ( in Tarigan, 1985:179) is the language used imaginatively and not literary. Thus, when having to understand it, people have to think deeper. Figurative language is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense. Appealing to the imagination, figurative language provides new ways of looking at the new world. It always makes the use of a comparison between different things. Figurative language compares two things that are different in enough ways so are their similarities, when their pointes are interesting, unique and/or surprising.

The similarity in dissimilarity then is the essence of comparison. Here, the poet just wants to give impression to his language to express his special meaning in order to get a special effect from the reader. For poet, words can mean more than dictionary means. Words have the power to suggest ideas and images related to their explicit meaning.

The   figurative   language,   after   all,   belongs   to   a   language   of phenomenon,  which  is  interested  to  analyze,  because  it‟s the  product  of creative imagination. Figurative language with its compatible terms forces the reader to attend to the connotations rather than to the denotations. Using the figurative language the poet can create his poem concrete, condensed, and interesting. The writer takes Rupert Brooke‟s poems for the study of figurative languge because it makes the writer interested in knowing the knowledge of poetry and its elements in order to be more clearly understood by the writer in particular and the reader in general.

With   these   arguments   and   reasons,   the   researcher   feels   fully encouraged to analyze the phenomenon and to present it in the research paper entitled “ FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN RUPERT BROOKE’S POEMS “.

B.  Problem Statement

In this research, the problem statements are as follows :

1.   What  are  the  kinds  of  figurative  language  found  in  Rupert  Brooke‟s

      poems?

2.   What is the meaning of figurative language found in Rupert Brooke‟s

      poems?

3.   What  is  the  dominant  figurative  language  used  in  Rupert  Brooke‟s

     poems?

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