Keywords: Analysis, figurative language, general/detail meaning, theme, message
Literature is a creation of artistic which are full of expressions and
imaginations. One of literary works which is interesting and is full of imagination
is poetry. Poetry is a literary work in which it is full of imagination and
expressions of feelings and overflow of emotions meaningful. Everyone is free to
express thoughts and expressions of experiences in life which is conveyed by the
poet through poetry. So, the poem is very interesting to be analyzed through the
language used. Therefore, the writer is interested to analyze the poems of Robert
Frost’s selected poems.
In this study the writer only takes two poems written by Robert Frost as the
subjects of the study, namely: (1) The Road Not Taken, (2) Stopping by Woods
on a Snowy Evening. The writer chose these poems because the poems containing
of figurative language.
The formulations of research problems are as follows: (1) What are the
kinds of figurative language used in the selected poems of Robert Frost’s poem?
(2) What is the general meaning and detail meaning of the poem containing
figurative language used in the selected poems of Robert Frost’s poem? (3) What
is the theme carried by the poem of Robert Frost’s selected poems? (4) What
messages are found the poems through understanding figurative language used in
the selected poems of Robert Frost’s poem?The purpose of this study are to: (1) to identify the figurative language used
in the selected poem of Robert Frost’s poem, (2) to know the general meaning and
detail meaning of the poem containing figurative language used in the selected
poem of Robert frost poem, (3) to know the theme carried by the poems of Robert
Frost’s poems, (4) to understand the message of the poems through understanding
figurative language used in the selected poems of Robert Frost’s poem.
Methods of research: (1) research design in this study is library research
with a qualitative approach to analyze the poems of Robert Frost’s selected
poems, (2) sources of data is obtained in this study by looking for books and
internet that contains about literature and poetry, (3) the writer uses
documentation method in the collection of data that is by reading and looking for
poems of Robert Frost’s selected poems related to the formulation of the
problems, (4) analysis of the data is used 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.
Finding of the study: (1) The figurative language used in the selected
poems: a) The Road Not Taken: symbol, personification, irony, metaphor, b. the
last poem describes the journey a person who is traveled miles far away with still
holds the promise to be finished before he finally sleeps. (3) The theme of poems:
a) the first poem, the theme is about “choice”, b) the last poem, the theme is about
“journey”. (4) The message of the poems: a) the first poem, the message is in life
there is always a choice that could influence in future life, and every choice we
make will make life different, b) the last poem, the message that we can be taken
that even though we traveled which miles far away, we still must remember the
promise that we hold as our responsibility to be finished until we finally meet
death.