Abstract:
The research deals with Figures of Speech in Mustofa Bisris’s Poetry Kau Ini
Bagaimana atau Aku Harus Bagaimana an It’s Social Implication. The data were
analyzed based on 15 types of Figures of Speech as suggested by Christina Alm
Arvus (2003). The objectives of this study were to describe the types of figures of
speech found, the use of figures of speech, and describe the social implication
found in Mustofa Bisri’s Poetry Kau Ini Bagaimana atau Aku Harus Bagaimana.
The scope of this study was focused on the kinds figures of speech identified in
the text of Mustofa Bisris’ Poetry Kau Ini Bagaimana atau Aku Harus Bagaimana
and It’s Social Implication. This research used qualitative design. The sources of
data were from Mustofa Bisris’ Poetry Kau Ini Bagaimana atau Aku Harus
Bagaimana. The instrument in this study was interview and document. The
samples was derived by website and use 20 persons as samples to find out the
social implication. there were 52 figures of speech with 9 types of figers of
speech, they were 2 for metaphor (3.8%), 8 for oxymoron (15.4%), 2 for
hyperbole (3.8%), 3 for symbolic language (5.8%), 21 for polysemy (40.4%) , 3
for synecdoche (5.8%), 9 for alliteration (17.3%), 1 for parallelism (1.9%), 3 for
chiasmus (5.8%) and the last was there were seven sentence that did not use any
kind of figures of speech. The use of figures of speech was categorized by Tropes
and Schemes, this poetry dominantly (75%) use Tropes, they were: metaphor,
oxymoron, hyperbole, symbolic language, polysemy, synecdoche, and also there
were schemes (25%) which consist of three types of figures of speech, they were:
alliteration, parallelism, and chiasmus. The social implication of this poetry is
25% of this poetry consisted of “SARA” and drive people view about economic
and politic into the bad assumption.
