CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION
A. BACKROUND
English as one of the subjects in schools has an important role because
English is a foreign language, an international language which is widely used in
communication by people in most countries in the world. Furthermore, English is
often used in writing science books, journals, or articles about knowledge and
technology. Therefore, in order to be able to develop science, knowledge, and
technology, and to communicate with people from other countries, English is
taught in Indonesia as a foreign language from junior high schools until
universities. English is taught at schools in order that students are able to master
the four skills, they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Harmer (2007:
265).
English as one of the subjects in schools has an important role because
English is a foreign language, an international language which is widely used in
communication by people in most countries in the world. Furthermore, English is
often used in writing science books, journals, or articles about knowledge and
technology. Therefore, in order to be able to develop science, knowledge, and
technology, and to communicate with people from other countries, English is
taught in Indonesia as a foreign language from junior high schools until
universities. English is taught at schools in order that students are able to master
the four skills, they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Harmer (2007:
265).
During the 70s poetry was very popular with poets. The evidence is there,
for example, in the past there were songs whose lyrics were from poetry. During
the heyday of poetry, poetry was not only an expression of love for the opposite
sex but also as a criticism of the government, for someone who meritorious, or
someone they hate. But now poetry is not too popular anymore because the
comparison of technological advances is not comparable with the thoughts and

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 feelings of the people so that someone prioritizes the installation rather than a
process.
Because the comparison is not balanced so that people, especially
teenagers, are no longer too interested in poetry, that's not all that very famous
poetry has begun to be forgotten. More and more people will forget about poetry
such as: the types, the structure, the differences, and so on.
For that I made this paper titled "poetry" so that we can remember it, study
it, and also understand the differences, and the structure is clearer so that we can
make our own poetry. What if we can make poetry and better understand the
difference in structure so that we new generations can popularize poetry again.

B. PURPOSEFORMULATION
1) What is poetry?
2) What is the elements of poetry?

C. PURPOSE OF PAPER
1) To know the meaning of poetry
2) To understanding the elements of poetry

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 CHAPTER II

DISCUSSION
A. Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary work that has art of language which contain
aesthetic meaning. It commonly written, read and listened. Kind language in
poetry more intensely than ordinary language. A poetry might be different
interpretation of each reader about writer means. To make a perception of a
poetry, the reader must be understand some imagery of poetry. It can earn or seen
of quality and usually of a word use in poetry a word commonly meaning so a
reader must be understand and know the word.
Poetry is a form in literary works that comes from the results of a feeling
expressed by poets with languages that use rhythm, rhymes, matras, stanzas and
the preparation of lyrics that contain meaning.

According to poetry experts are:

Herman Waluyo: Understanding poetry according to Herman Waluyo is

the earliest written literary work written by humans

Sumardi: Understanding poetry according to Sumardi is a literary work

with a language that is compacted, abbreviated, and given a rhythm with unified
sounds and the selection of kias (imaginative) words

Thomashcarlye: Understanding poetry according to Thomas Carlyle is a

musical expression of thoughts.

James Reevas: Understanding poetry according to James Reevas that the

meaning of poetry is an expression of language that is rich and full of charm.

Pradopo: Definition of poetry is a recording and interpretation of

important human experiences, changed in the most memorable form.

Herbert spencer: Understanding poetry is a form of pronunciation of

emotional ideas by considering the beauty.

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 Based on definition above we can conclude that poetry is a written art
written by a poet using a language that contains aesthetic values and has semantic
meaning.

B. Kind of Poetry

There are three kinds of poetry as follows:

1. Poems: a piece of writing partakes of both speech and song,
usually rhythmical – metaphorical
2. Ballads: poem that tell a story
3. Epic: narrative poem containing details of heroic deeds and even
significant to a culture national.

C. Intrinsic element

Different from other literary work, Poetry has a number of instrisic elements
 Theme :tema
 Figurative :gayabahasa
 Imagery :imajinasi
 Rhyme :sajak
 Rhythm :irama
 Metter : stress and unstressed
 Message :amanat

D. Denotation and Contation of Poetry

 Denotation is dictionary meaning or meaning of word where are a word

have a single meaning. Denotation word can stand alone to be understand. It is a
word has a suggest beyond express, it has some meaning of one word. Example:
“home” has meaning : love, security, comfort, family, etc

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 Connotation is word can’t stand alone. It must has context to understand.
Connotation to make sentences effectively, but we must think or define twice and
couldn’t understand directly.

E. Imagery of poetry

Imagery is sense of language experience, as a representation of some

meaning, so the reader can be imagine of the poetry base on the writer
mean. JadiImajinasimemiikitujuanuntukmempengaruhiemosipembaca.

F. Kind of imagery

 Visual imagery. Example: Blue sky, Sunset

 Auditory imagery. Example: Sound of nature like wind, tress, water
 Smell imagery. Example: fragrant,
 Taste imagery. Example: sugar (sweet)
 Touch imagery. Example: soft, coarse
 Organic imagery. Example: internal sensation like hunger, thirst, fear

G. Figurative Language

The reason are a number of useage figurative language in poetry:

Effectiveness of language, afford imaginative pleasure, bringing additional
imagery of speech into verse, more sensuous, adding emotional intensity of
speech to other wise merely information and conveying attitudes, and a way to
saying much in brief compass
 Metaphor: merupakanperumpamaanlangsungterhadapsuatubenda. Ex: He
is sun
 Simily: perumpamaantidaklangsung. Ex: she likes a beautiful moon
 Personification: giving atributes of human being to an animal, object or an
idea. Ex: rumput yang bergoyang

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 Synecdoche: use of part for whole
 Metonymy: use of something related for the thing actually

CONCLUSION

Poetry is a form in literary works that comes from the results of a feeling
expressed by poets with languages that use rhythm, rhymes, matras, stanzas and
the preparation of lyrics that contain meaning. Poetry have some element that used
to write down by the poets in poetry, are as follows:Sound Stratum and Words.
Sound is devided into several parts, namely sounds orchestration, combination of
certain vocal and consonant, sound symbol, rhyme, rhythm, and line length. While
the words section consists of word and diction, vocabulary, syntax, how
vocabulary and syntax interact, and denotation (literal) and connotation
(suggestive meaning).

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