Language And Poem Analysis

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Language is the main tool of communication for human beings. It is the most effective and important tool to communicate among people. Because with language people can convey their ideas, messages, thoughts, and feelings to others. It makes a better and clear communication. According to Stull (2001:1) language is a communicative device, without doubt. It is used to question, to demand, to plead, to whine, to moan, to praise, to love, to hate. Without language, people will establish a bad communication because they can not deliver what will they want to say. Then, the result of a bad communication for people is they will have a bad relationship.
In this world, there are many languages. It is always innovated during the times. Language always get influence from the places or communities that use the language. For example, in this modern era, especially in Indonesia, we can find Alay language. Alay language created by teenagers to express their communication style. They make combination of letters and number to produce language. New (1999:18) said, literature is writing that has a certain property, or certain properties, of literariness. Broadly, definition of …show more content…

Poem has language that more complex in meaning than language used in prose. Poem is more simple and brief than the language of prose and drama in the way it sends the message. Even, in just a few words, a poem can say a lot. It can inspire and amazed into something that is totally wonderful. Kennedy and Gioia (2005:xxxii) said that good poetry is something that readers and listeners, too, can care about. The effect of a poem consists of much more than simply message. By its musicial qualities, by its suggestions, it can work on the reader’s unconsious (Kennedy and Gioia, 2005:6). Poem delivers the messages in lines by using diction, figures of speech, imagery, rhyme, rhythm, sound, pattern, tone as elements of

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