Abstract:
This research is mainly investigated to determine the meaning of the poetry and
clarified the style of language which is the word forms appeared in the poetry based
on morphology stylistics proposed by O’Grady & Dobrovolsky in the book of
kalsum (2021) which divides the kinds of morphology stylistics into unbound (free
morphemes), bound (inflectional and derivational morphemes), base, and cranberry
morphemes. This study designed by applying descriptive qualitative research. The
data was collected by analyzed the meaning of the poetry and the kinds of
morphology stylistic use in laugh You Nutter! poetry by Darren Hobson.
Furthermore, the technique used to analyze the data based on the theory of Sarah
(2013) which is observed, identified, analyzed, and stated the purpose. The findings
showed that this poetry is about the madness experiences of the poet who could
encourage his own feeling. In this poetry found the 5 kinds of morphology stylistic,
they were: 90 free morphemes, 46 inflectional morphemes and 4 derivational
morphemes, 2 base, and 1 cranberry morpheme. Based on them, it implies that the
students could learn English linguistics and literature widely by absorbing the
subject about stylistic and poetry. So that, the students can simplify the language
and words style in literary works specifically on poetry easily.
