Analyze
Imagery in Poetry Joyce Kilmer
TREES
This Material Is made to Complete Assignment of Poetry
Thought
By:Munawir Hadi
Wijaya, M.Pd. S.Pd
By:
Silfarius Sijabat
NPM:
2101000320186
English
B’10
ENGLISH
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
FACULTY
OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITY
IKIP BUDI UTOMO
MALANG
2013
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
1.2
Background
Literature is a human creation that has a unique
characteristic because the poet has the right to be anything in his work.
Literature is a creative activity produced by an artist in a fundamental form
of work, be it in the form of prose, drama and poetry so that the audience or
pengapresiasi able to distinguish the type and karekteristrik work itself.
Poetry is an expression of inner experience (soul) poet of
human life, nature, and God through the medium of an aesthetic language that is
coherent and intact solidified his words, in text form called poetry. Life
issues presented in the poem the poet certainly be just a reflection of reality
(interpretation of life, sympathy for humanity, musings about the nature of
human suffering and about) but also tended to express a meditation metaphysical
poets of the world, new ideas or something that has not been imagined and
occurred to the reader, so that the poem is often considered to contain a
mystery.
1.2
Problem Formulation In The Study
Poetry as a literary work of art can be studied from
various aspects. Poetry can be studied structure and its elements, given that
the poem is a structure composed of a variety of elements and means to poetic.
It can also be studied poetry types or varieties-manifold, given that there are
diverse-range of poetry. Likewise, the poem can be assessed from the point to
its history, given that throughout its history, from time to time, poetry has
always written and always read the (Riffaterre, 1987: 3). Throughout the ages
of poetry are always subject to change, progress. According to (Riffaterre,
1987: 3). Explained that it is given essentially as a work of art has always
been a tension between convention and renewal (innovation). Poetry is always
changing sesuaibdengan evolution and changes in the concept of aesthetic tastes
(Riffaterre, 1987: 3).
Even so, people will not be able to
fully understand the poem without knowing and realizing that the poem
aesthetically significant works, which have meaning, not just something that is
empty of meaning, imajanasi which is a picture-image in mind, or a picture of
the poet's imagination. Therefore, before the assessment of other aspects,
speakers analyze or examine the imagery of poetry entitled "Analyze
imagery in poetry Joyce Kilmer
".
Because of his work, Joyce Kilmer
very attentive to his
words with strong imajinya, making speakers interested to analyze. Hopefully
what speakers convey can benefit us all.
a. How understanding
imagery poem by Joyce Kilmer?
b. How did the types of
imagery poem by Joyce Kilmer?
c. How is the analysis
of images in a poem by Joyce Kilmer?
1.3
The Purpose Of Research
The purpose of this study many readers will not be able to
fully understand the poem without knowing and realizing that the poem
aesthetically significant works, which have meaning, not just something that is
empty of meaning, imajanasi which is a picture-image in mind, or a picture of
the poet's imagination . Therefore, before the assessment of other aspects,
speakers analyze or examine the imagery of poetry entitled "Analyze
imagery in poetry Joyce Kilmer
". Because of his work, Joyce Kilmer
very attentive to his words with strong imajinya, making speakers interested to
analyze. Hopefully what speakers convey can benefit us all.
a. Describe the meaning
of images.
b. Describe the types
of images poetry.
c. Describe the
analysis of images in the poem by Joyce Kilmer.
1.4
Significance Of Research
Researchers hope that
it will be useful to:
a. Poetry
The poem expresses the thoughts that evoke a feeling, which
stimulates the imagination of the five senses in a rhythmic composition. All of
that is something that is important, which was recorded and expressed,
expressed interest and gave the impression. The poem is a record of human
experience and interpretation are important, composed in the form of the most
memorable (Pradopo, 1987: 7).
b.Images.
Imagery or fantasy images. In the poem, to give a clear
picture, to give rise to a special atmosphere, to make (more) life picture in
mind and sensing as well as to attract attention, the poet also uses dream
imagery (mind), in addition to the other poetic devices to . The images in the
poem is called wishful imagery (imagery) (Riffaterre, 1987: 3).
According to the Riffaterra Coombes (1987: 3) argues that
in the hands of a great poet, it is fresh and lively images, the peak of its
beauty to intensify, clarify, enrich: an image that successfully help people
feel the author's experience of the object and the situation he , give a
precise, vivid, powerful, economical, and soon we could feel and close to our
own lives.
With that one must understand the meaning of words, which
in this connection should also be given an experience of sense objects
mentioned or described, or imaginatively construct a kind of experience outside
of things related to that words be taken seriously really means to us. Images
are usually more recalls than making a new impression of the mind, so that the
reader is involved in the creation of poetic (Altenbernd, 1987: 80).
1.5
Definition of key terms
In (Riffaterre, 1987: 3) described the images thought it
was different, generated by the senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and
smell. Even created by thought and movement. Below are the types of images or
images which are as follows:
a. Image Vision (visual
imagery)
b. Image of Hearing
(auditory imagery)
c. Tactile Image (tactile
imagery)
d. image Motion
e. image feelings
CHAPTER
II
REVIEW
OF THE RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter will discuss about literary of poem and the
elements that will be analyzed by the writer. The first is definition of
literature itself to make clear the importance of literary work in studying a
language. The second is the definition of poem as the subject of study. The
third is definition about figurative language and the types of it. And the last
is about Helen Hoyt life and his
background.
2.1 Literature
The
subject matter of literature is something very general such as “human life”. Literature
used to express the human life. This statement implies that literatures deal
with human activity or experience. Literature is a vital record of what men
have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and
felt about those aspects, which have the most immediate and enduring interest
for all of us. It is thus fundamentally an expression of life through the
medium of language (Hudson, 1960:10). So the subject matter of literature is
something is general, such as human life. This is explaining how close
literature is, in our daily life.
Through
literature, especially poetry, people use to express what they have been
through in life or what their idea about future. We will understand some
communities based on their record of common literature. This will help us to
make a bridge and have contact with people from different background.
The
function of literature in education such as :
1. As
stimulate means in a language acquisition
2. As
a media to understanding culture
3. As
a media to motivate the student in absorbing the language expression
4. As
a means of interpretative ability development
5. As
a means of education to become a person as a hole
6. As
a means in developing student’s imagination
7. As
a means to stimulate the student in describing their experiences
8. As
a means to help the students developing their intelligent in learning language
9. As
a means in arising the student awareness the value in society
10.
As a media to stimulate
the students gaining tha language skills.
From
the text above we will considered to be agree that to read and understand
literature means to know and understand the author’s social, cultural, and
intellectual background.
2.1 Poetry
There are many definitions about poetry
that includes people’s life, and aesthetics value of someone life. But there is
no satisfactory definition seems to be appears. Burton (1974:234) classified
the theory of poetry into two main categories: the Hedonistic Theory and Didactic
Theory. Based on the hedonistic theory those belong to former school of thought
believe that the objective of poetry is merely to give pleasure. While
according to the didactic theory which belong to those who the own to the
latter consider that poetry should teach besides giving pleasure.
Soft
elements of poetry such as :
1. Title
: the name used for books, chapter in books, headlines, etc. they identify of
the mirror.
2. Theme
: major issue or main idea that author need to convey.
3. Atmosphere
: general tone and mood.
4. Point
of view :from what angle the author views his subject.
5. Diction
: the use of words in poetry. It includes denotation, connotation and
alliteration.
6. Message:
mandate that delivered by the author to the reader through the words that
implied in the poem.
7. Figurative
language : the language that used to create certain effect in use the figure of
speech that created to give the
impression to the audience or the speaker imagination.
Poetry which is deal with the deeper and
secret working of human emotion only appears if the person recalls what they
feel. Poetry is truth and fiction also truth, means what it’s describe is the
paint of the human soul truly and the fiction give a true picture of life.
Poetry is feeling confessing itself to itself, in moments of solitude and
embodying itself in symbols which are the nearest possible representation of
the feeling in the exact shape in which it exists in the poet’s mind. All
poetry is of the native of soliloquy, means poetry is the natural fruit of
solitude and meditation. Science and poetry goes together
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
This chapter
provides an overview and discussion of the research methodology used in this
study will examine the images in Joyce Kilmer.
TREES
I
think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
By : Joyce Kilmer
a.
Image Vision (visual imagery)
Visual image is the most frequently used by the poet than the
other images. Visual imagery provide stimulation to the senses of sight, so
often things do not look so as if seen.
The poet
feels amaze. It can be seen from line:
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree
Aku kira aku tak akan pernah melihat
Sebait puisi indah seperti pohon
Tone
The poet wants to show her feeling
through this poem. It is melancholy.
This is the proof.
b.
Image of Hearing (auditory imagery)
Image listeners that the images generated by the mention or
describe the sound of a voice (Altenbernd in (Riffaterre, 1987: 3). Auditory
images are images generated by mention or describe the sound of the voice,
image-related hearing. Impressions and images obtained through the sense of
hearing (ears). For example seagulls singing, voice rumbling in the dark.
General Literary
Analyzing
In this context, we are going to analyze a poem with
figurative language. With this way, we can find many messages from the TREES
poem. We are trying to mention kinds of figurative language that includes in
this poem.
Ø Simile
A simile compares two things using the words “like” and
“as”.
Ø A
poem lovely as a tree.
The poet wants to know the reader that a tree is more
beautiful than anything. As beautiful as poem.
Ø Poems
are made by fools like me,
Fools here means unperfect human.
c.
Tactile Image (tactile imagery)
Palpability images are images that can be perceived by the
sense of touch (skin). At the time of reading or listening to poetry
array-array, we can find a diction that can be felt skin, eg cold, hot, soft,
rough, and so on.
This can really affect
the way the reader imagines things.
Ø A
tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
Ø A
tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
Ø A
tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Ø Upon
whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
d.
image Motion
Motion imagery, the imagery is concrete does not move, but
in the abstract object is moving.
Ø A
tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against
the sweet earth's flowing breast;
Ø A
tree that looks at God all day,
And
lifts her leafy arms to pray;
Ø A
tree that may in summer wear
A
nest of robins in her hair;
Ø Upon
whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately
lives with rain.
e.
image feelings
Images of feeling, ie images that involve the heart
(feelings). This image helps us in living up to an object or event that
involves feelings,Atmosphere,Mood,Tone
The poet feels amaze. It can be seen from line:
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree
Aku kira aku tak akan pernah melihat
Sebait puisi indah seperti pohon
The poet wants to show her feeling through this poem. It is
melancholy.
This is the proof.
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives
with rain.
Meaning: The poet uses several different images to paint
his word-picture of a tree: reaching its green branches toward the sky in the
spring, holding birds’ nest in its branches in the summer, standing covered
with snow or all alone in the rain in other season.
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