COMPARISON OF TWO MAYA ANGELOU’S POEMS
SEEN FROM FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
I DW AG GD AG SURYANINGRAT
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LETTERS
UDAYANA UNIVERSITY
DENPASAR
2012
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all I would like to express my greatest thanks to the Almighty
God, Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa, for His blessing and guidance in my life. In all
my efforts to complete this paper, I realize that it would never be completed
without the support and guidance from many people. I am really very much
indebted to my beloved parents, I Dewa Made Suteja, S.Pd and Dewa Ayu Mas
for all of their love, support, and trust through all of these years that have given
me strength and optimism in every step that I have made in the completion
process of this paper.
Special appreciations are directed to both of my supervisors, Drs. I Gde
Sadia as my first supervisor, who has already given me a lot of advices,
correction, encouragement, patience, attention, and guidance during the writing of
this paper. My gratitude is also extended to Drs. I Gede Budiasa, M.A. as my
second supervisor who has helped me in the fulfillment of this paper with his
supervisions and critics so this paper is proper to fulfill the requirement of S1
degree paper.
My deep gratitude would go to the Dean of Faculty of Letters, Prof. Dr. I
Wayan Cika, MS. and Head of English Department, Prof. Dr. I Gusti Made
Sutjaja, M.A. for the support and assistance. I also express my gratitude to the
lecturers of the Faculty of Letters, Udayana University for sharing their
knowledge and to the staff of the English Department, Extension Program for
being very helpful.
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Arik Sanjaya, Ade Prama, Indra Wirawan, Dewa Bayu, Kristian, Putra Hendiana,
Dedik, Juni Ariawan, Metha Yuniari, Lilik Ari Kusuma, Ayu Amita Dewi,
Lindawati, Mas Dewi Yantari, Wijayanti Mitasari and Eka Putri Jayanti for
boosting my spirit and helping me in every condition that I faced during my years
of study. Thank for the great times we had together, our cohesive cooperation, and
our mutual assistance. I hope that in the future we can still continue this beautiful
friendship.
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more than welcomed to make this paper better and to advance my writing. I hope
the content of this paper is useful for the reader.
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ABSTRACT
The title of this study is Comparison of Two Maya Angelou’s Poems seen
from Figurative Language. The poems used in this study are “I Know Why the
Caged Birds Sings” written in 1969 and “On the Pulse of Morning” written in
1993. This study is aimed to find out the kinds of figurative language used in the
poems, to analyze the meaning of figurative language that the poet want to convey
in the poems and to compare the poems seen from the used of figurative language.
The data in this study were taken through the internet. Documentary
method was used as the method in collecting data; browse the poems of Maya
Angelou through the internet. The data was analyzed by descriptive method using
the main theory that was taken from the book written by Knickerbocker and
Reninger (1963) entitled Interpreting Literature and the supporting theories taken
from book written by Larson entitled Meaning-Based Translation (1998) and
book written by Leech entitled Semantics (1974)
The results of the study show that there are five kinds of figures of speech
found in the poems; they are symbol, personification, metaphor, hyperbole, and
allusion. Among the kinds of figures of speech presented in this study, metaphor
and personification is the most frequent to appear in the poems by Maya Angelou.
The use of figurative language in the poems is to construct the conceptual,
connotative and collocative meaning. The comparison of both poems can be seen
in used of hyperbole in the first poem and the used of allusion in the second poem.
Keywords: Figurative, Poem, Bird, People and Nature
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...................................................................................... i
ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................... iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................... iv
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION.............................................................................. 1
1.1 Background of the study ....................................................................................... 1
1.2 Problems of the Study ........................................................................................... 4
1.3 Aims of the Study ................................................................................................. 4
1.4 Scope of Discussion .............................................................................................. 5
1.5 Research Mothod .................................................................................................. 5
1.5.1 Data Source .................................................................................................. 5
1.5.2 Method and Technique of Collecting Data .................................................. 6
1.5.3 Method and Technique of Analyzing Data .................................................. 6
CHAPTER
II
REVIEW
OF
LITERATURES,
CONCEPTS,
AND
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ........................................... 8
2.1 Review of Literatures ............................................................................................ 8
2.1.1 Review of Thesis .......................................................................................... 8
2.1.2 Review of Journal ........................................................................................ 11
2.2 Concepts .............................................................................................................. 12
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2.2.1 Concepts of Poem ........................................................................................ 12
2.2.2 Concepts of Figurative Language ................................................................ 13
2.2.3 Concepts of Meaning of Word ..................................................................... 14
2.3 Theoretical Framework ......................................................................................... 14
2.3.1 Kinds of Figurative Language proposed by Knickerbocker and Reninger .. 14
2.3.2 Kinds of Figurative Language proposed by Larson ..................................... 22
2.3.3 Kinds of Meaning of Word proposed by Leech ........................................... 24
CHAPTER III THE ANALYSIS OF COMPARISON OF TWO MAYA
ANGELOU’S
POEMS
SEEN
FROM
FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE ................................................................................. 31
3.1 Overview ............................................................................................................... 31
3.2 Maya Angelou Biography ..................................................................................... 32
3.3 The Poem .............................................................................................................. 33
3.3.1 I Know Why the Caged Birds Sings Poem .................................................. 33
3.3.2 On the Pulse of Morning Poem .................................................................... 35
3.4 The Analysis of Poem ........................................................................................... 39
3.4.1 The Analysis of I Know Why the Caged Birds Sings Poem ....................... 40
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3.4.1.1 The Analysis of Figurative Language in I Know Why the
Caged Birds Sings Poem .............................................................. 40
3.4.1.2 The Meaning of Figurative Language used in I Know Why the
Caged Birds Sings Poem .............................................................. 46
3.4.2 The Analysis of On the Pulse of Morning Poem ......................................... 48
3.4.2.1 The Analysis of Figurative Language in On the Pulse of
Morning Poem .............................................................................. 48
3.4.2.2 The Meaning of Figurative Language used in On the Pulse of
Morning Poem .............................................................................. 59
3.4.3 The Comparison between the I Know Why the
Caged Birds Sings
Poem and the On the Pulse of Morning Poem Seen From Figurative
Language .................................................................................................... 61
CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION................................................................................ 63
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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