Institusion
Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Surabaya
Author
Mega Rosady Nata (STUDENT ID : 21416008)
Eko Budi Setiawan (LECTURER ID : 0711067001)
Subject
Communication Science
Datestamp
2020-07-21 02:45:54
Abstract :
This research is about loneliness that contains in Ella Wheeler Wilcox poem entitled Solitude. There are two purpose of this research, the first is to figure out speaker?s social struggle revealed by situational irony in the poem, and second is to find out the imagery which illustrate the struggle of the speaker?s. While the method used in this research is descriptive research, library research also used to analyze the analysis. There are two approaches used in this research namely structural approach and formalistic approach, and the main data of this research taken from a poem entitled Solitude written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox in 1883. Some theories used to analyze the data are theory of Irony, theory of Imagery and theory of Woman Struggle.
The result of the research shows how the irony used by speaker to illustrate her struggle to go out from her loneliness. Furthermore, the finding also related to imagery which dealing with speaker?s struggle. The imagery divided into visual imagery, auditory imagery, and kinesthetic imagery, while each of the imagery represent the struggles of the speaker?s herself.