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because they consist of two unstressed syllables and two stressed syllables. Then, the rest of the lines are iambic pentameter that consists of ten syllables, which
alternate between unstressed and stressed syllables.
B. Previous Study
The researcher admits that there have been many previous researches that also discuss about love and figurative language. However, none of those researches is
similar. Though discuss the same topic, each of them has their own distinctive focus and object. One of the similar researches is conducted by Dewi Sagita in
2014. In her research entitled John Keats’ Mixed Feeling of Love to Fanny
Brawne Expressed in His Poem ‘Ode on Melancholy,’ the researcher analyzes the figurative language which is used to express John Keats’ mixed feeling in his
‘Ode on Melancholy’ by using expressive criticism. In that research, the researcher finds out that John Keats employs several kinds of figurative language
such as allusion, personification, and simile to express his deepest love to Fanny Brawne. Those figures of speech also reveal Keats’ own feeling of anxious,
delighted, jealous, sad and spirited so that the readers can discover the visualization of the love feeling which he embodies in his poem.
Another similar research is conducted by Graham Roebuck in 1994. Different from Dewi Sagita’s research, Roebuck’s research, entitled “A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning”: Traditions and Problems of Imagery only focuses on the employment of images in
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” without relating it to love or other themes. In that research, the researcher, using New Criticism,
proves that Donne’s employments of images in the poem, including metaphor,
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simile, conceit, and analogy, deserve to be claimed as unrivalled prominence in the discussion of poetry.
This research is not the same as those two previous researches. Using objective criticism, this research focuses on analyzing the employment of
figurative language to express the speakers’ love which they assume to be different from common people’s love in John Donne’s “A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning” and “The Sun Rising.” To be able to analyze the love expression in those two poems, the researcher uses objective theory to identify the
types of figurative language employed by John Donne as well as their significances in expressing love.
C. Conceptual Framework
