Title: Figure of speech in the Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poems
Abstract: This study is conducted to analyze the figure of speech that is used in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem. There are two research problems in this study, first what the figure of speech that is used in the Elizabeth Barrett browning’s poems, and second what are the Figurative meaning that is used in the Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem are.
In this study the writer used theories from Perrine in his book Sound and Sense. In this book the writer finds the description about poem and poetry and the type of figure of speech, there are 12 figures of speech that appear by the writer to find the figure of speech that found in Browning’s poem, and give the figurative meaning of each stanza that have figure of speech. How the writer get the meaning is by using book of Pragmatics and Stylistic to help the writer easy to analyze and describe.
The writer uses descriptive qualitative method in her research. In this study, the writer also want to get detailed understanding about the using of figure of speech in poem and find the most figure of speech that is use in the poem especially in poem talk about love.
The writer also found that figure of speech is really close to poem. The language that use in the poem is different because using connotation word and use imagery to make the language as beautiful as the deepest feeling of the poet. And also make the reader find the meaning behind the word, and how to write poem using the method or the types of figure of speech.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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