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.
