Types of meaning on Robert Frost's poems

Literature is a creative art created by human kind. It helps us become more \nsensitive to nature and human experience, including language, both our own and other \npeople's. Moreover, studying literature will give some benefits to us, i.e. the students, \nin terms of learning human ways of life, human value, new vocabularies that cannot be \nfound in ordinary text books, and learning how to appreciate the work of art. \nThere are many forms of literature, however, the writer chooses poetry to be \nanalyzed because it has beautiful expression, creative language, and sense that makes \nthe writer touch her heart when she reads it. Here, the writer is interested in analyzing \nRobert Frost's poems because Frost is one of the major American poets of the \ntwentieth century who tells about simple thing. \nThis thesis entitled "Semantic Analysis on Robert Frost's Poems" is conducted \nto answer the following research questions: (1) What types of meaning are found in \nRobert Frost's poems, (2) Which type is dominantly used, and (3) Why does Robert \nFrost use the above types of meaning. \nAlthough there are many poems of Robert Frost, the writer selects only ten of \nFrost's poems, they are: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Departmental, The \nRoad Not Taken, Fire and Ice, The Rose Family, Reluctance, The Armful, Come In, \nThe Oven Bird, and The Pasture. \nIn doing her analysis, the writer reads the poems several times and interprets \nthem. Here, she finds a lot of meanings covered in ten of Frost's poems. Then, she \nidentifies meanings based on seven types of meaning which are introduced by Leech, \nthey are: conceptual meaning, connotative meaning, stylistic meaning, affective \nmeaning, reflected meaning, collocative meaning, and thematic meaning. \nAfter doing the analysis, the writer comes to the conclusion concerning the types \nof meaning which are found in Frost's poems. She concludes that seven types of \nmeaning are covered by Frost in some of his poems, they are: Departmental, The \nRoad Not Taken, Reluctance, Come In, and The Pasture. This probably made him a \ngreat poet because he represents all seven possible meanings in some of his marvelous \npoems. \nSome of his poems do not cover conceptual meaning (Fire and Ice), connotative \nmeaning (The Armful and The Oven Bird), reflected meaning (Stopping by Woods on \na Snowy Evening and The Armful), collocative meaning (Fire and Ice, The Rose \nFamily, and The Armful). \nThere are three dominant types of meaning which are used by Robert Frost in \nhis ten poems, they are: stylistic meaning, affective meaning, and thematic meaning. \nThis evidence shows that Frost covered his ten poems with his own style, his own \nfeelings and attitudes, and also presents his poems according to the thematic meaning. In \naddition, the writer found that Frost liked to present two contrasted elements \nin most of his poems, tell about natural cycles, and tell about simple things. \nAt last, the writer realizes that this study is not perfect and there must be several \nShortcomings. It is suggested that the reader be more interested in reading and \nanalyzing poetry.