and conditions of their life. The chosen words, shoot, cut, kill gave us the information how terrible the discrimination to African American at the time.
The Equality also discussed about discrimination and segregation in America. In this poem, the African American became invisible human I stand
before you boldly, Trim in rank ‘they dehumanized by the superior. The white hatefulness imaged as the sight of white as if in deem even the African American
was in front of the white eyes.
B. The Focus of Study
The research focused on the three Maya Angelou poems: Equality, Preacher Dont Send Me, Still I Rise. From these three poems
the writer will analyze the words which were chosen by Angelou and the sociological background of poems.
C. The Statement of Problems
Based on the background of the study above and the focus on the study, the writer formulated the statement of the problems dealing with sociology of
literature in poetry: 1. What is the African American’s condition in the three Maya Angelou
poems?
D. The Significance of Study
By analyzing the intrinsic element in three of Maya Angelou poems: Preacher Don’t Send Me, Still I Rise, and Equality, the writer wishes to find the
social condition of African American; social, politic, economy, which described in those poems.
E. The Method of Study
1. The Method of The Research The method that the writer uses in this research is descriptive
qualitative. The researcher concerned to scientific data, and correlated the data with context. In the analysis the researcher explains the
description and image that exist in the poems by relating them with the race discrimination and struggle of African American at nineteenth
century in America. The writer also uses content analysis. It means the writer tries to analyze the poems by finding out and interpreting the
content, the meaning, and the message that exist in data. 2. The Technique of Data Analysis
In this study, the writer uses the sociology of literature theory to analyze the data, and uses the textual-analytical as the technique of
data analysis. The collected data will be analyzed and discussed in order to answer the research questions above by using qualitative
method.
3. The Research Instrument The instrument in this research is the writer himself by reading
and analyzing the whole text in the three Maya Angelou’s poems. The poems will be analyzed carefully by underlining the stanzas, lines,
sentences or words that related to visual imagery. Besides analyzing the data, the writer also puts it as the evidence in this research.
4. Unit Analysis The unit analysis used the three Maya Angelou poems:
Equality P.232, Preacher Dont Send Me P.257, Still I Rise P.163. Taken from the book The Complete Collected Poems of
Maya Angelou published by Random House, Inc. New York: 1994. 5. Place and Time
This research is accomplished in State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta and Library center.
CHAPTER II THE THEORITICAL REVIEW
