CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH
3.1 Data Collecting Procedure
The first procedure in doing this thesis is collecting the data. In this first procedure, library research is used. As quoted from Nawawi 1993:30:
Penelitian kepustakaan dilakukan dengan cara menghimpun data dari berbagai literature baik di perpustakaan maupun tempat-
tempat lain. Library research is done by collecting the data from any kinds of
source in the library or any other places.
There are two steps in applying this procedure. The first step is collecting Maya Angelou’s poems which deal with feminism as the source of data. The
poems are collected from the library, internet, and any other places. After that, the poems are read many times to understand what they are about and to find out the
feminist ideas that are reflected inside them. The second step is collecting and reading another data about feminism, such as books that talk about feminism,
feminist theory, or feminist criticism, and other supporting materials which are relevant to the topic of this thesis, such as articles, journals, notes, or essays about
feminism. These sources of data are used to provide much information to understand the concepts and ideas of feminism itself. They also make the process
of doing this thesis faster and easier.
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3.2 Data Selecting Procedure
The second procedure is selecting the data. There are also two steps in applying this procedure. The first step is selecting the most related poems which
will support the analysis of this thesis. There are seven selected poems of Maya Angelou that are going to be analyzed from the view of feminism, they are
Phenomenal Woman poem A, Still I Rise poem B, Equality poem C, Woman Work poem D, Men poem E, Remembrance poem F, and Caged Bird poem
G. And the second step is choosing the poems’ most related lines that will be later quoted to support the analysis of the thesis.
3.3 Data Analyzing Procedure
The last procedure in doing this thesis is analyzing the data. In analyzing the data, the descriptive analysis method is used. According to Ratna 2004:53,
the descriptive analysis method is a method which describes facts which are followed by analysis. This method is not only to describe the facts, but also to
give adequate understandings and explanations towards the facts. Therefore, this last procedure is the process of describing the collected
data and analyzing them. The data included are the significant things which are related to feminism as portrayed in Maya Angelou’s selected poems, such as the
struggle of women against the superiority of men, bad treatments over women in a male-dominated society, and the superiority of men itself.
Since mimetic and expressive theory, which will prove that the poet wants to imitate the real condition of the society and put it into the poems and which will
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also show that the poems are the results of the poet’s imagination and experience, are used in analyzing this thesis, all the collected data from the poems will be
described and analyzed well. This is intended to support and prove what has been stated in the objectives of this thesis and finally the conclusions can be drawn
from the analysis.
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CHAPTER IV AN ANALYSIS OF FEMINISM IN MAYA ANGELOU’S SELECTED
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