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However, the books from library are not enough as the sources of data in writing this paper. The writer also searched and collected data from internet to enrich the data. The last,
the writer described and interpretated the data and made some conclusions. In order to another reader easy understanding in this method, the writer describes a chart bellow:
The sources data 1. The John Love poems
2. Literary books 3. internet
writer
Reading and selecting poems as object
conclusion Interpreting and
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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1
Literature
Literature refers to compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and advocates ideas. Before the invention of writing, literary works
were necessarily spoken and sung, and were retained only as long as living people performed them. In some societies, the oral tradition of literature still exists, with many poems and
stories designed exclusively for spoken delivery. Literature is a body of written and valued as works of art. Literature may be classified
according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre and subject matter. Rees 1997:9 states that Literature is writing which express and
communicates throught feelings and attitude towards life. Edgar and Henry 1995:2 say that literature is the compositions that tell stories,
dramatize situations, express emotions and analyze and advocates ideas. They also say that literature may be classified into four categories or genres:
1 Prose Fiction,
2 Poetry,
3 Drama, and
4 Nonfiction prose
Usually the first three are classed as imaginative literature. The genres of imaginative literature have so much in common, but they also have
distinguishing characteristics. Prose fiction, or narrative fiction, includes myths, parables, romances, novels, and short stories. Originally, fiction meant anything made up, crafted, or
shaped, but today the word refers to prose stories based in the author’s imagination. The essence of fiction is narration, the relating or recounting of a sequence of events or actions.
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Poetry expresses a conversation or interchange that is grounded in the most deeply felt experiences of human beings. Poetry exists in many formal and informal shapes, from the
brief haiku to the extensive epic. More economical than prose fiction in its use of words, poetry relies heavily on imaginery, figurative language, and sound.
Drama is literature designed to be performed by actors. Like fiction, drama may focus on a single character of a small number of characters, and it enacts fictional events as if they
were happening in the present, to be witnessed by an audience. Although most modern plays use prose dialogue, in the belief that dramatic speech should be as lifelike as possible, many
plays from the past, like those of ancient greece and renaissance England, are in poetic form. Non-fiction prose is the literary genre that consists of news reports, feature articles,
essays, editorials, textbooks, hictorical and biographical works, and the like, all of which describe or interpret facts and present judgements and opinions. Major goals of nonfiction
prose are truth in reporting and logic in reasoning. Whereas in imaginative literature the aim is truth to life and human nature, in non-fiction prose the goals is truth to the factual world of
news, science, and history.
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2.2 Defenition of Poetry
