AN ANALYSIS OF LOVE EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES BETWEEN COMMON PEOPLE AND THE SPEAKERS THROUGH FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN JOHN DONNE’S “A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING” AND “THE SUN RISING”

Panca Handayani, Wahyu (2016) AN ANALYSIS OF LOVE EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES BETWEEN COMMON PEOPLE AND THE SPEAKERS THROUGH FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN JOHN DONNE’S “A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING” AND “THE SUN RISING”. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.

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Abstract

This research aims to investigate the love expression differences between the common people and the speakers of “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and “The Sun Rising” through the employment of figurative language. The objectives of this research are 1) to identify kinds of figurative language employed by John Donne in his “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and “The Sun Rising”, 2) to investigate the significances of figurative language employment in John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and “The Sun Rising”, and 3) to find out the way he employs figurative language to make the expression of the speakers’ love in “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and “The Sun Rising” becomes different from the love of common people. This research applied qualitative method. The textual analysis method was used to analyze the data. The main data of this research were words, phrases, sentences related to the employment of figurative language in John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and “The Sun Rising”. The key instrument of this research was the researcher herself. The researcher employed some steps during the data collection, i.e. reading, note-making, interpreting, and categorizing. In conducting the data analysis, the researcher passed some steps, namely identifying, classifying, re-reading, and making interpretation. To gain data trustworthiness, the researcher asked her colleges to do triangulations in order to check the data. The results of this research showed that there were seven types of figurative language found in the “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and “The Sun Rising”. Those types of figurative language were personification, metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, apostrophe, and hyperbole. After categorizing and interpreting the data, the researcher concluded that each type of figurative language was significance to evoke the readers’ imagination, to reinforce the love, and to make the love expression unforgettable. The way the speakers made their love become superior to common people’s love in these two poems was by comparing their love through analogies and dramatizations. They employed figurative language to make vivid and familiar analogies and dramatization in their love expressions. Key words: Figurative language, poetry, love expressions

Item Type:	Thesis (S1)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Key words: Figurative language, poetry, love expressions
Subjects:	Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Divisions:	Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User:	Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2016 08:33
Last Modified:	30 Jan 2019 12:00
URI:	http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/44119

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