STYLISTIC ANALYSIS ON SMILE YOU NUTTER! POETRY BY DARREN HOBSON

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.