An Analysis of Figure of Speech in William Wordsworth's Selected Poems

Language is the important characteristic in human being. People use language for many purposes like communication and discussion. The way to deliver the information can be represented the form of spoken language or written language.One of the written languages is poetry. Poetry is kind of language that says more and more intensely than the ordinary language does. It is one of the examples of literary work. It has its own characteristic and unique style that also represent the characteristic and the style of the writer. This study is aimed to describe about figure of speech in WilliamWordsworth’s poem. More especially, this study is aimed to (1) To find the kind of figure of speech and the implicit meaning of the figure of speechwhich the writerwants to say through the poem. (2) To find the mostly figure of speech that is used in WilliamWordsworth poem. Descriptive qualitative method is used in this research, because the data consist of wordsinstead of number. By using this method the researcher can describe the figure of speech when they appear in every stanza in five poem of WilliamWordsworth. In order to compose this study, the data, which is in form of poems obtained from A Character, Daffodils, Perfect Woman, With Ships The Sea Was Sprinkled Far and Nigh, and The World isToo Much With Us. Those data where analyzed and classified and interpreted them, whichwere in the research question. Through the analysis, it was found the dominant figure of speech in selected poems by WilliamWordsworth is personification and simile. In this study the researcher found that personification and simile is the most frequently used by WilliamWordsworth in these five poems. The researcher also found the representation of figures of speech in this poem are about love, sadness, the beautiful of nature, those themes are tightly related to his experiences of life.