A Description of Figurative Language in Selected Poems of W.B.Yeats

Abstract

This paper entitled A Description of Figurative Language Found in Selected Poems of W.B.Yeats; The writer will describe a figurative language used as well as its meaning in three poems that have been selected from the book; Poems of W.B.Yeats by Norman Jeffares using library research method. The purpose of this study is to find a figurative language used in three poems ; A Prayer for my daughter, Easter 1916, and First love using using the theories of James R. Kreuzer, and Lee Cogan. The writer also After described, the writer found eight uses of figurative language in the poems there are; Personification, metaphorical, rhetorical, syntactic, simile, hyperbolic, antithesis, and parallelism.

Kertas karya ini berjudul A Description of Figurative Language found in Selected Poems of W.B.Yeats. Penulis akan mendeskripsikan gaya bahasa yang digunakan serta maknanya pada tiga puisi yang sudah dipilih dari bukubuku Poems of W.B.Yeats karya A. Norman Jeffares dengan menggunakan metode penelitian perpustakaan . Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menemukan gaya bahasa yang digunakan pada ketiga puisi; A prayer for my daughter, Easter 1916 dan First love, dengan menggunakan teori James R. Kreuzer, and Lee Cogan. Setelah dideskripsikan, penulis menemukan delapan penggunaan gaya bahasa pada puisi tersebut yaitu ; personifikasi,metafora,retorik,sinekdok,simile,hiperbola,antitesis,dan paralelisme.