Relationship between Literature with Idea The Method of the Study

2.3 Relationship between Literature with Idea

Thomas hardy and Emily Dickinson have same attitudes idea about love. People who make an analysis of love poems by Emily Dickinson in his thesis, says : love can make someone disappointed. Beside it, She says “ love is everything”. Usually, Emily’s love poems come from her unrequited love of a beloved man. In her love poems Emily’s show that love is more than life and death. It means without love, life is empty and love can make this life happy. She say that love is the first creation in the world after human being. While according to Thomas Hardy love can make someone disappointed. He expresses how feeling to sorrow of love. His wife died suddenly , he began to write a series of love poems about his late wife. In this love poems, he is express sorrow of love who make life to be loneliness. 10 Universitas Sumatera Utara CHAPTER III THE RESEARCH METHOD

3.1 The Method of the Study

In doing the analysis, the writer of this thesis uses biographical approach. In which he tries to analyze Thomas Hardy’s poems based on his own biographies in order to find out his perception about love in some his poems. Since biographical approach consider literary work mainly in connection with the life and the personality of the author himself and herself. Thus, the writer of this thesis must learn much Thomas Hardy himself through his life background especially through the writing of his biographers. The process of analysis are as follows : first the writer read some books which related to the poet’s life background and historical record of his time. It is useful to know more deeply. His life, struggling, thought, emotion and in order to explorer how particular case like the death of his persons have influenced his perception love. Then the writer select seven poems that express idea about love and tries to analyze them. In this way, I seeks certain points of the writings and looks for any compatibilities in the next. Finally, I comes to his conclusion of the findings. I collects data in library. He consults some related references it enables him to analyze the poems Thomas Hardy’s idea about love more accurately. 11 Universitas Sumatera Utara

3.2 The technique for Collecting Data