Semantics Analysis Of Robert Frost’s Selected Poems

Abstract

The study deals with semantics analysis of Robert Frots’s selected poems. In this study the writer only takes four poems written by Robert Frost as the subjects of the study, namely: (1) Bereft (2) Acquanted With The Night, (3) My November Guest, (4) The Road Not Taken. The writer chose these poems because the poems containing of figurative language. The formulations of research problems are as follows: (1) What are the kinds of figurative language used in the selected poems of Robert Frost’s poem? (2) What is the general meaning and detail meaning of the poem containing figurative language used in the selected poems of Robert Frost’s poem? (3) What is the most dominant of figurative language used in Robert Frost’s selected poem? Finding of the study: (1) The figurative language used in the selected poems: a) Bereft : metaphor, personification, irony, b) Acquanted With The Night : metaphor, repetition, symbol, alliteration, repetition, symbol, c) My November Guest : metaphor, symbol, personification, understatement, imagery, d) The Road Not Taken : metaphor, irony, symbol, personification, imagery. (2) The meaning of poems: a) the first poem describes about someone who lost his direction in life but he was sure that God was always with him, b) the second poem describe about someone had walked away from the city where he lived and he felt so deep loneliness, c) the third poem describe about the sadness of being an uninvited guest so that beauty of November cannot be seen. But at the end the beauty of November can be seen, d) the last poem describes about making decision of two roads and the choosing will make difference in life, (3) in these fourth poems the more dominant is the first metaphor of 11, second personification of 8, and the last is imagery of 6.