PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI STYLISTIC ANALYSIS IN ROBERT FROST’S “MENDING WALL” AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By KARTIKA NOVA FURYA ANGGADEWI Student Number: 164214108 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2020 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI STYLISTIC ANALYSIS IN ROBERT FROST’S “MENDING WALL” AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By KARTIKA NOVA FURYA ANGGADEWI Student Number: 164214108 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2020 ii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI “Love All, trust few, Do wrong to none” -William Shakespeare vii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI This thesis is dedicated to myself, family, my partner who always supports me, and all my friends. _ _ _ _ _ viii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE ......................................................................................................... i APPROVAL PAGE ............................................................................................. iii ACCEPTANCE PAGE ........................................................................................ iv STATETMENT OF ORIGINALITY .................................................................. v LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH . vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................................... ix TABLE OF CONTENTS ...................................................................................... x LIST OF TABLES .............................................................................................. xii ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................... xiiiii ABSTRAK ......................................................................................................... xiviv CHAPTER I ........................................................................................................... 1 A. Background of the Study .............................................................................. 1 B. Problem Formulation .................................................................................... 4 C. Objectives of the Study ................................................................................. 4 D. Definition of Terms ...................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II ......................................................................................................... 7 A. Review of Related Studies ........................................................................... 7 B. Review of Related Theories ....................................................................... 13 1. Stylistics .............................................................................................. 133 2. Phonological Level ............................................................................. 144 3. Graphological Level ............................................................................. 18 4. Grammatical Level ............................................................................... 19 5. Semantics Level .................................................................................. 211 C. Review of Related Background…………………………………………...24 D. Theoretical Framework ............................................................................. 299 CHAPTER III ..................................................................................................... 31 A. Object of the Study ..................................................................................... 31 B. Approach of the Study ................................................................................ 32 C. Method of the Study .................................................................................... 33 x PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 1. Data Collection ..................................................................................... 33 2. Data Analysis........................................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV .................................................................................................... 366 A. Language Features in poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost ................. 36 1. Phonological Level ............................................................................ 366 2. Graphological Level ............................................................................ 46 3. Grammatical Level .............................................................................. 49 4. Semantic Level .................................................................................... 51 B. Meaning Revealed from the Stylistic Features in Frost’s “Mending Wall” ………………………………………………………………………….54 CHAPTER V ..................................................................................................... 667 REFERENCES .................................................................................................... 70 APPENDICS ........................................................................................................ 73 \ xi PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI LIST OF TABLES No. Table Page 1 Table 1. Alliterations that are found in the poem “Mending Wall” 37 2 Table 2. Assonances that are found in the poem “Mending Wall” 39 3 Table 3. Consonances that are found in the poem “Mending Wall” 42 4 Table 4. Rhymes that are found in the poem “Mending Wall” 44 5 Table 5. Contractions that are found in the poem “Mending Wall” 46 6 Table 6. Direct Speech that are found in the poem “Mending Wall” 47 7 Table 7. Dashes that are found in the poem “Mending Wall” 48 8 Table 8. Tenses that are found in the poem “Mending Wall” 49 9 Table 9. Rhetorical devices that are found in the poem “Mending 51 Wall” xii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRACT ANGGADEWI, KARTIKA NOVA FURYA. (2020). STYLISTIC ANALYSIS IN ROBERT FROST’S “MENDING WALL”. Yogayakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Sanata Dharma. Literary work always has a meaning, especially poem. Through the meaning, particular issues can be discussed into deeper analysis. Therefore, for that reason, the researcher focuses on the stylistic analysis in Robert Frost’s poem entitled “Mending Wall”. Stylistic analysis is used to find out the language features that exist in the poems and establish the meaning that can be obtained from the language features. There are two research problems in this research: What are language features used in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” and How are the use of language features reveal the meaning of the poem. The first problem is answered using stylistics approach. The poems were analyzed based on four language levels: phonology, graphology, grammatical, and semantics. The second problem was answered by connecting the language features with the poem. The findings in the research are the answers of the research problems. In phonological level, alliteration, consonance, assonance, and eye-rhyme are used to highlight important words. In Graphological level, contractions are used to keep the number of syllables on each line, punctuations: period, coma, semi colon, and colon are used to separate lines, and apostrophe is used to indicate direct speech. In grammatical level present tense is used the most to give the feeling of the poem. In semantic level, metaphor, simile, symbol, and imagery carry the poem’s meaning. The four language features are link to each other to deliver the meaning of the poem that is conflict and relationship in human’s life. From the four language features, semantic features contribute the most in constructing the meaning. Keywords: stylistic analysis, language features, mending wall xiii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRAK ANGGADEWI, KARTIKA NOVA FURYA. 2020. STYLISTIC ANALYSIS IN ROBERT FROST’S “MENDING WALL. Yogyakarta: Program Studi Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Sanata Dharma. Karya sastra selalu memiliki arti, terutama puisi. Melalui karya sastra, isu- isu-isu tertentu dapat dibahas dengan analisis yang lebih dalam. Karena itu, penelitian ini berfokus pada analisis stilistika dari puisi milik Robert Frost yang berjudul “Mending Wall”. Analisis stilistika digunakan untuk mengetahui fitur-fiur yang ada pada puisi dan menentukan arti yang bisa didapatkan dari fitur bahasa tersebut. Terdapat dua permasalahan dalam penelitian ini: apa fitur bahasa yang digunakan dalam puisi Robert Frost yang berjudul “Mending Wall” dan bagaimana penggunaan fitur bahasa untuk mengungkapkan makna dari poem tersebut. Permasalahan pertama dijawab dengan menggunakan pendekatan stilistika. Puisi tersebut dianalisa berdasarkan empat tingkatan bahasa: fonologi, grafologi, gramatikal, dan semanik. Permasalahan kedua dijawab dengan menghubungkan fitur-fitur bahasa tersebut dengan puisinya. Penemuan-penemuan di penelitian ini adalah jawaban dari permasalahan- permasalahan di atas. Pada tingkatan fonologi, aliterasi, konsonasi, asonansi, dan eye-rhyme digunakan untuk menyoroti kata-kata penting. Pada tingkatan grafologi, singkatan digunakan untuk mempertahankan jumlah suku kata pada setiap baris, tanda baca: titik, koma, titik koma, dan titik