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B. Conceptual Framework
This research attempts to analyze Complete Poems of Robert Frost published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada. Stylistics is defined as a field
of study proposed to explore the language use in literary works. This becomes the appropriate approach to use since this research indeed focuses on how language is
maintained in the research objects. Specifically, it is the style of language use in poem that becomes the main attention of this research.
The research is a stylistic study. It tends to observe the use of figurative language in the first chapter of Complete Poems of Robert Frost entitled
A Boy’s Will by Holt. In analyzing the use of figurative language, the researcher uses
Leech’s and Jakobson’s theory. There are two main objectives in this research, the transference of meaning types synecdoche, metonymy, metaphor, simile, and
personification and the function of the language metalinguistic, referential, conative, emotive, poetic, and phatic. In conducting the analysis, the researcher
uses a systematic way, which is presented in the analytical construct in Figure 1.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODS
A. Research Type
This research was conducted under qualitative approach. Bogdan and Biklen 1982:39-48 state that a qualitative approach is a research procedure
bringing about the descriptive data in the form of written or oral data from the subjects of research being observed. Since this research tend to describe the
phenomena of the figurative language, qualitative approach was the most appropriate approach. In-depth analysis which is strongly emphasized in the
approach can support brief discussion about this topic. The design of this study was descriptive qualitative method. The data
about poems lyrics which are the figurative language used in the first chapter of Complete Poems of Robert Frost entitled
A Boy’s Will which contains 30 poems. As descriptive research, the analysis is aimed at providing a sophisticated
description or illustration of the phenomena. According to Vanderstoep 2009: 167, the purpose of qualitative research is more descriptive than predictive. The
goal is to understand, in depth, the viewpoint of a research participant. In descriptive-qualitative approach the data obtained are described in
words as the interpretation of the findings. In this research the phenomena being described were the figurative language applied in the first chapter of Complete
Poems of Robert Frost entitled A Boy’s Will. All steps of procedure in this
research were carefully inducted to answer the research objectives. The Objective
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