FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ANALYSIS IN WILLIAM’S POEM “THE LITTLE BLACK BOY AND THE ECHOING GREEN”

Rika, Elfita (2021) FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ANALYSIS IN WILLIAM’S POEM “THE LITTLE BLACK BOY AND THE ECHOING GREEN”. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ANALYSIS IN WILLIAM’S POEM “THE LITTLE BLACK BOY AND THE ECHOING GREEN” BY RIKA ELFITA Language is a tool to communicate and express human feelings in their daily life. As a tool, language plays an important role. In this research discussed about figurative language as a one of the important thing. This research was taken because figurative language is complex and cannot be taken literally. It is important to be used for effective communication. The aim of this research was to know the types of figurative language and its contextual meaning in two poems selected by William Blake. The title of the poems was “The Little Black Boy and The Echoing Green”. The data was taken from the book of Classic Poetry Series by William Blake.This research used descriptive qualitative method to describe and analyze the figurative language‟s types and the contextual meaning. To focus on this research, the researcher limits the types of figurative language only based on Perrine‟s theory to know the types of figurative language and after that analyzed the contextual meaning. The result of this research found that from twelve types of figurative language in the poems, only ten types which included in the poems selected, Those were types of figurative language found in two poems of William Blake. They consisted of 7 simile, 4 of metaphor, 4 of personification, 1 of synecdoche, 5 of metonymy, 3 of symbol, 2 of paradox, 3 of hyperbola, 9 of understatement, 2 of irony. Therefore, allegory and apostrophe were not found in this research. Then, the contextual of both poems were about how human should grateful to God for all his creation and for condition what God gives to every human. This poem has morality to be applied in life. Key Word: Contextual Meaning, Figurative Language, William Blake’s Poem “The Little Black Boy and The Echoing Green”.

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