THE REPRESENTATION OF THE LION AND THE MOUSE STORY IN ROBERT FROST’S FIRE AND ICE.

ABSTRACT
Ulfah, Laily. 2012. The Representation of the Story The Lion and The Mouse in Robert
Frost’ Poem Fire and Ice. Final Project. English Department. Language and
Art Faculty. Semarang State University. First Advisor: Dra. Rahayu Puji
Haryanti, M. Hum., Second Advisor: Bambang Purwanto, S.S M.Hum.
Keywords : The Existence, Fire and Ice, The Lion and The Mouse, the Strength, the
Weakness, the Power in Silence
This study The Representation of the Story The Lion and The Mouse in Robert
Frost’ Poem Fire and Ice is conducted to indicate the existence of the power in silence
which consisted in the story The Lion and the Mouse and the poem fire and ice. The
problems of this study are : How is the representation of silence described in the story
The Lion and the Mouse and the poem fire and ice and how is the relationship of the
representation of the power in silence in both literary works.
Both The Lion and the Mouse and Fire and Ice are literary works that contain
the social phenomena, so the writer used sociological approach to reveal the correlation
between them. Besides, the writer used the descriptive qualitative method that based on
the library research to analyze some problems in this study.
To sum up, this study is about the strength and the weakness which is a kind of
the social phenomena. Besides, this study gives the alternative meaning about the reality
of the strength (strong) and the weakness (weak) which people commonly consider that
the strong is always powerful while the weak is always powerless or in other words, a

power should be seen by the physical appearance. Later, this study breaks that people’s
opinion and gives the fact that actually there is power behind the weakness ( power in
silence).