CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
C. The Figurative Languange of the Selected Poems
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1. Some say the world will end in fire (line 1)
From the phrase above, the writer assumes that the narrator used symbol. The writer assumes that fire is the symbol of desire. In fact, the character of fire is hot and smolder. It can burn something. It is same with the characteristic of human desire that smolder to get anything they want. This statement is supported by the third line From what I’ve tasted of desire. This line shows that desire can motivate someone to gat anything.
Because of desire, the human tries to get anyting they want. In addition, fire also creates a deep anger in human being.
Therefore, it can destroy the world.
2. Some say in ice (line 2)
From the phrase above, the writer assumes that the narrator used the world ice to describe hatred. As we know, the character of ice is cold and frozen. The writer interprets ice as hatred because the characteristic of human who hate something is difficult to molten.
In line 1 Some say the wolrd will end in fire, and line 2 Some say in ice that also can say paradox. Paradox is a statement that contradicts itself. There is a controversy in these statement. Some people argue that the world will end in fire but some people argues that the world will end in ice. The narrator
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knows that both fire and ice can destroy everyting. He knows enough from his desire, the fire can destroy the world.
The first and the second line show parallelism anaphora in the word some say. Parallelism anaphora is a figure of speech that put a similar word or group of words repeatedly in front of each line. Here, the narrator repeats the world some say in the first line to the second line to emphasize that not only the world will end in fire, but also the world will end in ice.
b. The Road Not Taken
Referring to the first selected poem above, its figurative languages are summarized in the following table.
The poem Figurative Language
Two roads diverged in a yellow
wood Symbol
And sorry I could not travel both -
And be one traveler, long I stood -
And looked down one as far as I
could -
To where it bent in the undergrowth Symbol Then took the other, as just as fair - And having perhaps the better claim - Because it was grassy and wanted
wear -
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Though as for that the passing there - Had worn them really about the same -
And both that morning equally lay -
In leaves no step had trodden black - Oh, I marked the first for another day - Yet knowing how way leads on to
way -
I doubted if I should ever come back - I shall be telling this with a sigh -
Somewhere ages and ages hence -
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by -
And that has made all the difference Metaphor
There are four types of figurative language that the writer found in this poem. They are: symbol and metaphor.
The first stanza, there are two figurative language in line 1 and line 5. “Roads” and “undergrowth” are symbols. The word
“roads” means identification that there are two choices in life.
Meanwhile, the word “undergrowth” is something that comes as a risk.
In the last stanza there are in the last line, the word “and that has made all the difference” is metaphor. As the speaker
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says at the end that whatever the road he has taken has had a shaping influence on his life and it has made all the difference.
An ambivalence remains regarding the positive or the negative character of this difference.
In conclusion, from the explanation above it can be concluded that this poem is dominated of symbol. The forked road represents choices in life. The road here is a symbol.
c. Tree at My Window
Referring to the third selected poem above, its figurative languages are summarized in the following table.
The poem Figurative Language
Tree at my window, window tree Metaphor My sash is lowered when night
comes on -
But let there never be curtain drawn -
Between you and me -
Vague dream-head lifted out of the
ground -
And thing next most diffuse to cloud - Not all your light tongues talking
aloud -
Could be profound -
But tree, I have seen you taken and
tossed -
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And if you have seen me when I slept - You have seen me when I was taken
and swept -
And all but lost -
That day she put our heads together - Fate had her imagination about her - Your head so much concerned with
outer -
Mine with inner, weather -
There are three types of figurative that the writer found in this poem. That is a metaphor.
In the first line the word “tree at my window” is metaphor.
He addresses a tree growing outside of his bedroom window.
He tells it as if the tree is a living thing like humans who always face the urgency of various problems in poetry this speaker tells the differences and similarities between nature and human.
In conclusion, from the explanation above can be concluded that this poem is dominant of personification. In this poem indicates that tree could talk like humans.
d. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Referring to the fourth selected poem above, its figurative languages are summarized in the following table.
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The poem Figurative Language
Whose woods these are I think I
know Symbol
His house is in the village, though -
He will not see me stopping here -
To watch his woods fill up with snow - My little horse must think it queer -
To stop without a farmhouse near -
Between the woods and frozen lake -
The darkest evening of the year -
He gives his harness bells a shake Symbol
To ask if there is some mistake -
The only other sound’s the sweep -
Of easy wind and downy flake -
The woods are lovely, dark, and
deep Symbol
But I have promise to keep -
And miles to go before I sleep -
And miles to go before I sleep -
There are four types of figurative language that the writer found in this poem. That is a symbol.
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From the first sentence "whose woods these are I think I know" said the woods here is a symbol, from the sentence above the word woods is meant as a house made of wood.
The third stanza also uses symbol expressions. In the first line, the words “bells a shake” is symbol of there is something mistake in the woods. The speaker describes that it is maybe something happened. The horse gives sign with bells a shake which hanging in his neck.
In the last stanzas, there are two figures of speech, symbol, and repetition. The first line, “the woods are lovely, dark, and deep” is a symbol. It is describes that the speaker pause in a place which are many things to temptation him over there in order he almost fall asleep and forgot his duties. The speaker describes that “lovely, dark, and deep” are symbol of mystery in life.
In conclusion, from the explanation above, this poem is full of symbol. This poem represents the journey of life.