Figures Of Speech In Mustofa Bisri’s Poetry Kau Ini Bagaimana Atau Aku Harus Bagaimana And It’s Social Implication

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.