Satire In The Poems By Gershon Wolf

Abstract

This study deals with analysis satire in the poems by Gershon Wolf. The objectives of the study were to describe the types of satire, to describe the satire written in the poem by Gershon Wolf. The data in this research was taken from internet. Descriptive qualitative method was applied to analyzing the data. That found of three poems it is “Waa Waa Warriors”, “All The Disadvantages”, ”A Man of Might and Sleight”. The data focused in the poems by Gershon Wolf that consist of Satire. Based on the analysis, there were three types of Satire in the Poems namely Horatian satire, Juvenalian satire, and Manippean satire prposed by Abrams theory. From the data obtained, there were fourteen (14) sentence found in poems by Gersho Wolf. It was found 3 types of Satire in this research, there were (5) sentence of Horatian satire, (3) sentence of Juvenalian satire, (6) sentence of Manppean satire.