soldier to end the war with a victory. The second poem of my study is “The Warrior”. This poem consists of
two stanzas. The first stanza consists of eight lines. And the second stanza consists of six lines. John McCrae uses some of the greatest name of a ship or
fortress as an imagery to encourage the soldier. This poem was described John McCrae experience and his trip to a battle in South Africa. He illustrates what was
really happen in a war and he also give us an information what can we see in a war.
The third poem is “The Anxious Dead”. This poem has four stanzas, and each stanza has four lines. In this poem John McCrae talked about what happened
in the middle of an endless war. This poem also talked about the sacrifice and hope.
This study deals with literature and literary works. I use many books concerning with literature especially poetry and books about history of the First
World War. The secondary data of this study includes the biography of John McCrae, some literary theories and history of the First World War. This data were
also supported by another books in order to get sufficient data concerning war. The theory of teaching speaking is also taken to support the implementation of
this study in teaching language.
B. Approaches
From the five approaches suggested by Rohrberger and Woods, this study
will only use two main approaches, Sociocultural-Historical and Biographical approaches, to analyze those three poems. Since this study deals with the history
of First World War, and the background of the poet, I used the Sociocultural - Historical and Biographical approach. By applying the Sociocultural -Historical
approach, I tried to give an image of what exactly happened in the Battle of Ypres as part of the World War I.
The reason why I used the biographical approach because I tried to reveal the intention of the poet in using certain theme in most of his poems. From the
biography it is easier to know about what they have experienced and the influences in their literary works. Usually, the experiences in their life are
reflected in their works. In order to know the reflection of the experiences, it is appropriate to use the biographical approach to analyze the three poems in this
study. I believe that John McCrae’s life background and his experiences joined
the war have significant influence on his works. The reasons are the experience of John McCrae’s life had a big influence on his works.
C. Data Collection
The data are collected from some reference books and from some information in the Internet. The poems that are analyzed in this study were taken
from the Internet. Some library studies are conducted by reading some theories and reviews. In analyzing the three poems, information about the poets’ biography
and criticism on their works from the Internet and reviews from other writers are also needed to complete the analysis in this study.
D.
Procedures
This thesis is a library or desk study. The procedures in this study concern the steps that I took in doing the analysis so that I was able to obtain solutions to
the problem formulation of this study. Therefore, several steps were taken in this study. The first step was, I read the poems several times. The aim was to grasp the
whole idea of poem in a form of summary. A poem cannot be read only once since we all know that it has deeper meaning than just the ordinary meaning.
The second step was to find the literary meaning of the difficult words in the poems since reading a poem has also to do with understanding the meaning of
each word. Therefore, dictionary was provided to consult some difficult words. In doing this activity I used the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
The third step, in order to understand the poems, after I found the difficult words, I explicated them. This step consists of some activities dealing with the
analysis of the poems. I read the theories of literature in order to analyze the poem.
Here I used Sociocultural -Historical and Biographical approaches. I analyze the poems by referring to the biography of John McCrae. The biography
refers to the life of John McCrae when he wrote the poems. And by the Sociocultural -Historical approach, I try to measure the condition and situation
during the war and the implication for John McCrae’s point of view of war.
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