This research discusses the contextual meaning contained in the poem by Robert Frost. The aim of this research is to find the contextual meaning used in a selection of poems by Robert Frost.
Background
As we know that poetry is one of the most literary types of literary literature. Reading poetry is a special pleasure of art, even the height of the enjoyment of literary arts.
Reason for Choosing the Title
From the above definition, the writer chooses Robert Frost's literary works, Robert Frost's poems are very poetic, and in order to express a feeling in his poetry, he writes his poems in words that are not easy to understand, so that reading becomes interested in by analyzing them whether it analyzes both the figurative language and the contextual meaning in the poetry.
Identification of the Problem
Scope of the Problem
These poems were chosen because the poems are masterpieces and constructed from different figurative language and contextual meaning than other poems. Thus, the writer only wants to analyze the contextual meaning, the meaning of the figurative language and the massage found in the selected poems of Robert Frost.
Question of the Research
Objective of the Research
The importance of this research is expected to help the reader to provide information and further understanding of the meaning of the poem, especially about contextual meaning and figurative language. The result of the research can be used as a reference in literary work and information about the poem.
Definition of Poem
- Meaning
- Types of Meaning
- Leksikal Meaning
- Contextual Meaning
- Grammatical Meaning
Based on the above meaning, it can be concluded that to understand the meaning of a word, the context of a word must be taken into account, it can arise from knowledge. According to Abdul Chaer grammatical meaning is meaning that arises due to various grammatical processes such as assertion, reduplication, compounding and conditioning or due to the functioning of words in sentences.
Contextual Meaning 1. Definition of Context
In this sense the word body has the meaning of part of a collection of people doing something. According to Abdul Chaer, Contextual meaning is the meaning of a lexeme or word within a context.
Figurative Languange
- Simile
- Personification
- Hyperbola
- Metonymy
- Synecdoche
- Paradox
- Irony
- Understatement
- Repetition
- Association
- Antithesis
- Parallelism
This figure of speech is divided into two kinds: pras pro toto (part for whole) and totem pras pro parpte (whole for part). It is speech that the use of words opposite to each other, with the intention of equalizing the meaning, (Tjahjono. It is speech that in the expression indicates something positive with negative form or form that is contrary, (Djajasudarma) .
Anaphora parallelism is a figure of speech that repeatedly places the same word or words at the beginning of each line of a poem. Epistrophe parallelism is a figure of speech that repeatedly places the same word or words at the end of each line of a poem.
Biography of the Author
In Book Poems by Robert Frost; A Boy's Will and North of Bosthon (2010), McGlinn explains that "Frost explores the feelings of the romantic lover whose longing for love is largely unfulfilled and is reflected in the natural surroundings Love and Questions, "A Late Walk", "Wind and Window Flower”, “Flower Gathering”, “A Dream Pang”, “A Line Storm Song”. Even in his last volume, In the Glade, so full of the stubborn courage of old age, Frost depicts the security of man as a rather tiny and quite vulnerable opening in a dense forest, a point of light that the encroaching trees cast their own. real threat of darkness. The Road Not Taken is the first Robert Frost poem in the collection Montain interval.
This is because The Road Not Taken was intended by Frost as a gentle mockery of indecision, especially in the decision that Thomas has shown on their many walks together. However, at the end he divides the idea by explaining indoor and outdoor weather.
Previous Study
The second is Siti Romlah Puji Rahayu Srudji, (2014), "A Semantic Analysis on Avril Lavigne Songs". In her dissertation, she analyzed the contextual meaning and the lexical meaning in Avril songs. In her research she concentrated and analyzed five texts from. The method used is the descriptive-analytical method, which is the source of data in the analysis based on the theory used in this study. In her research methodology, she describes the content of Avril's songs and explains the contextual and lexical meanings present in the songs.
This method is used to inquire, the application of linguistic theory to a wide variety of objects and activities influenced by cultural anthropology that studied myths, kinship system, rituals, etc. The result of her study shows that the symbols found in Robert Frost's poems are natural, private and conventional symbols.
METHODOLOGY
Type of Research
Object of the Research
Procedure of Collecting Data
After finding the objectives of the analysis, the author will adjust some literature reviews that relate to the purpose of the analysis.
Method of Analysing Data
The author collected data from the library related to the kind of literary research to support this data. This book is very important because most of the science that is closely related to research and mostly exists in the form of a book written by an expert. The author also collects the data from the internet to complete the data related to the problems.
The Contextual Meaning of Robert Frost’s Selected Poem a. Fire and Ice
It can be seen from the title of this poem that the author has got the word which is the subject of this poem, at the beginning of the poem sentence there is the sentence "some say the world will end in fire" and in the second sentence "some say in ice" from these two sentences there are two words, the objects of this poem are the words "fire" and "ice". From the explanation above, the word fire in the book is heat and light that comes from something that burns, while the meaning of the word fire in this poem is about human emotions in the word fire refers to jealousy, anger or wrath, jealousy, revenge, hatred and etc. From the contextual meaning, the word fire describes desire as the cause of the apocalypse, the nature of fire burning fire, will burn whatever it passes, then only dust remains.
Based on the contextual meaning, the word Ice describes hatred which also causes doomsday, as in the second sentence of this poem "some say in ice" the nature of the ice is icy cold and hard. The choice of the word taste describes the author's awareness of the dangers of desire.
The Road Not Taken
Based on the explanation above can be seen from the sentence "tree by my window, window tree" there is the word. Based on the discussion above there is a word forest in the book the word forest is an object while the word forest in this poem refers to a house. Based on contextual meaning of the word forest, the word forest in this poem is synonymous with a house.
Based on the contextual meaning that the word bells in this poem is a symbol telling the character that the place he uses to rest can be dangerous for him. In the last stanza, the word 'beautiful, dark and deep' is in the sentence 'The woods are beautiful, dark and deep.
The Figurative Languange of the Selected Poems
Referring to the first selected poem above, its figurative languages are summarized in the following table. In the last stanza there is in the last line, the word "and it made the difference" is metaphor. With reference to the third selected poem above, its figurative languages are summarized in the following table.
Referring to the fourth selected poem above, the figurative languages are summarized in the following table. In the first line, the words "bells a shake" symbolize that something is wrong in the woods.
The Message of Robert Frost’s Selected Poems
From the first sentence "whose woods these are I think I know" said the woods here are a symbol, from the sentence above the word woods is meant as a house made of wood. The general message of this poem is on the Day of Resurrection fire and ice are the two elements that will destroy the world, besides saving hatred and selfishness is the nature of people, they are never satisfied with what they have. After reading each poem stanza by stanza, the author determines the general message that in life there are always choices.
After reading the poem stanza by stanza, the writer notes the overall message that life is a struggle colored by difficulties. The overall message of this song is that we shouldn't get too sleepy with the beauty we see while traveling.
Conclusion
In addition to contextual meaning, there are also results of a figurative analysis in this poem to complete the discussion of the four poetry analyzes using Tjahjono's theory. Based on the overall analysis, it can be concluded that knowing the contextual meaning of a word and the relationship between word that is a sign with its referent is important for understanding a text of literary works, especially poetry. If you do not know the contextual meaning and sign of a word in a poetry text, then the understanding of the text will not be complete.
Research into the contextual significance of Rober Frost's poetry can be further developed by focusing on the choice of poetry themes. Thus, the study of the contextual meaning of Robert Frost's poetry can be related to the socio-cultural background of the community and also to the background of the author's life.
Suggestion
In this study, the themes of Ingeborg Bachmann's poetry were highlighted on the poetry that depicts the state of Robert Frost describing life. First, the writer analyzes the types of figurative language such as symbols, metaphors, personifications and others. Second, the writer explains the significance of the type of figurative language found in the poems.
After analyzing the figurative language of Robert Frost's selected poems, the writer analyzes the contextual meaning of the researcher in search of the word that is the subject in the poems. Finally, after analyzing the figurative language and contextual meaning in Robert Frost's poems, the writer also gave a message that could be captured in the poem.
APPENDIXES
Two roads diverged in the yellow wood, And alas I could not travel both, And being one traveller, I stood for a long time And looked down as far as I could. Two roads diverged in the woods and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that made all the difference. A vague dream-head raised from the ground, And a thing that scatters most into a cloud,.
But tree, I have seen you taken and thrown, and if you have seen me when I slept, you have seen me when I was taken and swept. My little horse must think it strange To stop without a farm near Between forest and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.
