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Here is the chart for making it easier to understand research design applied in the study:
The Writer Library Research:
The writer use Library Research and qualitative descriptive method
Data: Primary source of the data are the
poems entitled The Lady’s ‘Yes’ and How Do I Love Thee?.
Secondary source of the data are some books that related to the study.
Theory: Conclusion
Theory of L.G. Alexander 1932 and Structuralism Theory 1966.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDING
4.1 Passion to be Loved in The Lady’s ‘Yes’
THE LADY’S YES
1.
“Yes,” I answered you last night
2.
“No,” this morning, Sir, I say
3.
Colors seen by candlelight
4.
Will not look the same by day
5.
When the tabors played their best,
6.
Lamps above, and laughs below
7.
Love me sounded like a jest
8.
Fit for Yes or fit for No
9.
Call me false, or call me free
10.
Vow, whatever light may shine
11.
No man on your face shall see
12.
Any grief for change on mine
13.
Yet the sin is on us both
14.
Time to dance is not to woo
15.
Wooer light makes fickle troth
16.
Scorn of me recoils on you
17.
Learn to win a lady’s faith
18.
Nobly, as the thing is high
19.
Bravely, as for life and death
20.
With a loyal gravity
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21.
Lead her from the festive boards
22.
Point her to the starry skies
23.
Guard her, by your truthfull words
24.
Pure from courtships’s flatteries
25.
By your truth she shall be true
26.
Ever true, as wives of yore
27.
And her Yes, one said to you
28.
Shall be Yes for evermore
The Lady’s ‘Yes’ was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and first published at year 1844. The writer uses criticism approach to derive what the poem is
going to say, the writer tries to get some informations that support the poem but the informations is to get from out of the poem such as historical background. For the
example, Elizabeth Barrett Browning used poem to explore and challenge traditional Victorian roles for women, assessing the early influences on her work as expected
from a woman, her utterances are unstable. During the reign of Queen Victoria, a womans place was in the home, as domesticity and motherhood were considered by
society at large to be a sufficient emotional fulfilment for females. These constructs kept women far away from the public in most ways.
The rhyme scheme The Lady’s Yes is ababcdcd efef ghgh ijkl mnmn opop
.
In Thelady’s Yes clearly suggests that the poem’s voice is a well-mannered woman. In
Browning’s poemThe Lady’s ‘Yes, she ends her poem with the thought provoking stanza. This poem begins with a woman agreeing to spend the night with a man, and
then regrets her decision the next morning. As the poem progresses, Elizabeth tells men to learn to win a lady’s faith. Elizabeth also tells men to “guard” their ladies. In
this poem, there are many important messages that she tries to tell to society. In
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society, people do not respect each other and take people for granted. Men are cruel to women, and husbands fight with their wives. Browning explains that every woman
has same right as man, when a man is true, the woman will be true to him. Here woman’s passion to be loved in The Lady’s Yes truly will be explained
and there are some other passions in this poem. There are passion to have faith and passion to get the truth in this poem that seems like clue to explain woman’s passions
to be loved truly in The Lady’s ‘Yes’. a.
Passion to have faith in The Lady’s Yes Actually, everybody has a purpose in their lives, not only men but also the
women. Between men and women need faith. According to Encyclopedia Americana 1997: 848 faith means confidence and trust in another. Faith comes first but that it
should be followed by good works. The important things in faith are the element of trust, confidence, surrender, and submission. It means a woman has faith in a man.
Because faith is the key of everything. Faith does not come easily without any effort. It can be achieved by making a commitment between man and woman. It can be seen
from the following quotation: Yet the sin is on us both
Time to dance is not too woo Wooer light makes fickle troth
Scorn of me recoils on you Learn to win a lady’s faith
Nobly, as the thing is high Bravely, as for life and death
With a loyal gravity Stanza IV and V; Line 13-20
That statement shows how the woman gets faith. She tries to get the faith at a party. Because she knows that faith does not come by itself. So, she must learn and
try hard to get the faith from the wooer. Eventhough she has to struggle againts a
