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Love in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's —Desire“ and Percy 1 /29( ,N SAMUE/ TAY/OR COLE5,DGE‘S —DES,RE“ AND 3ERCY BYSHEE SHE//EY‘S —L29( 3HI/OS23HY“ A THESIS JOURNAL Submitted by: DANANG ARIF NUGROHO ADI APRILIAWAN A2B008107 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES DIPONEGORO UNIVERSITY SEMARANG 2013 2 /29( ,N SAMUE/ TAY/OR COLE5,DGE‘S —DES,RE“ AND PERCY BYSHEE SHE//EY‘S —L29( 3HI/OS23HY“ By Danang Arif Nugroho Adi Apriliawan Faculty of Humanities Diponegoro University ABSTRACT Skripsi ini, menganalisis mengenai perasaan cinta yang ada di dalam kehidupan manusia. Perasaan cinta tersebut digambarkan pada puisi yang berjudul —Desire“ karya Samuel Taylor Coleridge dan —/ove‘s 3hilosophy“ karya Percy Byshee Shelley. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menunjukkan unsur instrinsik dari puisi —Desire“ karya Samuel Taylor Coleridge dan —/ove‘s Philosophy“ karya Percy Byshee Shelley, menganalisis perasaan cinta melalui pembelajaran id, ego dan superego, dan menganalisis kategori cinta yang ditunjukkan pada kedua puisi tersebut. Penulis menggunakan metode penelitian kepustakaan yang berarti penulis melakukan pengumpulan sumber data melalui buku-buku yang terkait di perpustakaan dan berbagai sumber lainnya melalui internet. Penelitian ini juga menggunakan pendekatan psikoanalisis (id, ego, superego) milik Sigmund Freud dan teori cinta milik Elaine Hatfield. Adapun aspek instrinsik yang dianalisis adalah diksi, citraan, simbol, personifikasi, dan metafora. Aspek instrinsik tersebut digunakan untuk mendukung analisis secara keseluruhan. Teori psikoanalisis dan teori cinta digunakan untuk menganalisis aspek ekstrinsik karena memiliki keutamaan dalam menganalisis perasaan cinta yang ada pada puisi tersebut. Berdasarkan analisis yang dilakukan, penulis menemukan bahwa puisi —Desire“ karya Samuel Taylor Coleridge menggambarkan perasaan cinta yang ada pada diri manusia. Perasaan tersebut muncul karena adanya nilai nilai moral yang berlandaskan kebaikan dalam kehidupan manusia. Ketika manusia mengambil nilai nilai moral ini, maka dalam usahanya untuk memenuhi kebutuhan dari dalam tubuhnya, dia akan melakukan hal hal dengan berdasar pada nilai kebaikan untuk kehidupan sosial. Nilai nilai kebaikan sosial yang menekan nafsu manusia akan memunculkan sesuatu yang disebut sebagai cinta. Puisi —/ove‘s 3hilosophy“ karya Percy Byshee Shelley menggambarkan perasaan cinta yang dirasakan oleh seseorang terhadap orang yang dicintainya. Perasaan cinta ini membuat sesorang mempunyai keinginan untuk menjalin hubungan dengan orang yang dicintainya. Keinginan untuk saling berbagi cinta ditunjukkan dengan memberi penjelasan kepada orang yang dicintai, bahwa semua hal yang ada di alam mempunyai hubungan satu sama lain. Melalui penjelasan ini, kemudian dia mengajak orang yang dicintai untuk menjalin hubungan cinta dengannya. Perasaan cinta yang ada pada puisi —Desire“ karya Samuel taylor Coleridge dan —/ove‘s 3hilosophy“ karya Percy Byshee Shelley merupakan bentuk dari passionate love atau perasaan yang kuat untuk saling berbagi cinta dengan orang lain. Perasaan ini muncul dari keinginan untuk mencintai dan dicintai oleh orang yang menjadi pilihannya. 3 A. Background of Study not only have power of telling about Literature includes poetry, romance, love, and desire but also prose and drama. They are works of have explanation of the influence of imagination characterized by the unconscious mind in behavior in excellence of style and expression every human being. and by themes of general enduring This thesis is entitled —Love interest. Among those three genres, in Samuel Taylor Coleridge‘s poetry is the most ancient and —Desire“ and 3ercy Bysshe Shelley‘s difficult one. According to —/ove‘s 3hilosophy.“ This idea Perrine“poetry might be defined as a studies love as one of the man‘s kind of language that says more and needs which comes from the says it more intensely than does unconscious mind. The ordinary language“ (1987: 3). unconsciousness continues to Romantic Period is one of the influence behavior and experience literary eras where many poets take a even though human is unaware of part in the development of poetry. these underlying influences. Love is This Romantic Period has so much a feeling that exists in human being. spirit such as the delight of nature, From the very first time, love is a the world of imagination, the interest common thing for living people. It is in the past, the individual freedom, a basic thing in people‘s feeling. and the experience and perception Love is about an expression and idea about life. Samuel Taylor in people‘s lives. Coleridge‘s —Desire“ and Percy B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bysshe Shelley‘s —/ove‘s Biography Philosophy“ are poems from Coleridge was born on 21 Romantic Period. These poems are October 1772 in Ottery St. Mary, aEout general condition of human‘s Devonshire. His father, who was the life. Many things can be learned priest of Ottery and the headmaster from these poems such as; how a of its grammar school, died when he man always needs a woman as a was a boy, in 1781. Thereafter, to partner of life; how a woman is continue his education, Coleridge weak, an attractive creature that was enrolled at Christ's Hospital in could make a man as the dominant London. After ten years there, he gender who falls down for her; and matriculated in Jesus how love can be the answer for the College, Cambridge, where he was question of human existence. known for his wide reading and Based on some impressive persuasiveness. In 1795, considerations, the writer is Coleridge married Sara Fricker, and interested in analyzing love in a their first son, Hartley, was born the human life as represented in Samuel following year. Taylor Coleridge‘s —Desire“ and In the Beginning of 1815, Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s —/ove‘s Coleridge wanted to consolidate his Philosophy“. In this thesis, the author literary reputation. He continued to would like to analyze and to describe involve himself in essentially minor love as human‘s aspect of life based original projects, such as his on these two poems. These poems play Zapolya (which appeared 4 in 1817). Coleridge's major endeavor schoolteacher who inspired him to at this time was to restore his create his first major poem, Queen reputation as a significant poet of the Mab. The poem‘s title character, a age. He accomplished through fairy originally invented by publishing two successive volumes Shakespeare and described in Romeo of verse, Christabel; Kubla Khan, a and Juliet, describes what a utopian Vision; The Pains of Sleep in1816, society on earth would be like. and Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Around 1817, he wrote Laon and Poems in 1817. Meanwhile, the Cythna; or, The Revolution of the biographical preface he had Golden city. His publishers balked at contemplated for the latter volume so the main storyline, which centers on grew under his retrospective thinking incestuous lovers. He was asked to called Biographia Literaria, which edit it and to find a new title for the was published in tandem with work. In 1818, he reissued it as The Sybilline Leaves. Revolt of Islam. Though the title Coleridge‘s work of criticism, suggested the subject of Islam, the Aids to Reflection, was appeared poem‘s focus was religion in general in 1825. His last prose work, On the and featured socialist, political Constitution of the Church and State themes. apparently a contribution to the Shortly after the publication debate over Catholic Emancipation, of The Revolt of Islam, Shelley left appeared in 1830, a year after the law for Italy. Around this time, Shelley was enacted. A third edition of his wrote Prometheus Unbound. During Poetical Works appeared their residency in Livorno, in 1819, in 1834 shortly before his death on he wrote The Cenci and The Masque 25 July. of Anarchy and Men of England, a C. Percy Bysshe Shelley response to the Peterloo Massacre in Biography England. After moving to Italy, Percy Bysshe Shelley was Shelley continued to venture on born in Broadbridge Heath, England, sailing trips on his schooner ”Don on August 4, 1792. His parents were -uan‘. ,t sank on 8 -uly 1822 in a Timothy Shelley, a squire and a storm and Shelley drowned, at the Member of Parliament. Shelley left age of twenty-nine. His body washed home at age of 10 to study at Syon ashore and he was cremated on the House Academy. In the fall of 1810, beach near Viareggio. His ashes were Shelly entered University College, buried in the Protestant Cementery in Oxford. It seemed a better academic Rome, Italy. environment for him than Eton, but after a few months, a dean demanded D. Theory of The Organization that Shelley had to visit his office. of Personality Shelley and his friend Thomas Freud writes that part of the Jefferson Hogg had co-authored a human mind exists in which the pamphlet titled The Necessity of individual is not aware of it. This Atheism. mind part is called the unconscious. Shelley was interested in a The unconscious part forces to woman named Elizabeth Hitchener, a operate and dominate the human‘s 5 life. Freud divides the human mind of energy until the actual object that into three different parts, but it will reduce the tension is discovered. relates to each other. His theory of Ego uses reality principle to fulfill personality states that the mind is the need, and then takes some actions composed by three different to find out something whether it is functions, namely: id, ego, and suitable or not. superego. The transactions between the person Id is called as the life and the world require the formation instincts. It gives the motives to of a new psychological system, the survive in life, such as hunger, self- ego. The ego is governed by the protection, and sexual desire. —The ,d reality principle. The aim of the consists of all of the primitive, reality principle is to postpone the biologically derived drives and discharge of energy until the actual impulses with which we start life. object that will satisfy the need has This primitive component called been discovered or produced.
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