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Task 11 Read the poem below and then answer the questions.
All I Ever Wanted Is in You (Steve S. Kelly) All I ever wanted is in you: Love, laughter, a pillow for my fears. I want to give and to be given to So I might feel myself flow through the years Alive in you, the wonder of my tears.
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Questions 1. Decide the rhyme scheme of the poem. 2. What does the persona want? 3. Does he love his admirer? In which line do you find this? 4. What is the wonder of his tears? 5. What is the poem all about?
Task 12 Study the kinds of figurative language below. Figurative Language Compared to the other kinds of literary works, poetry uses much more figurative language. From the kinds of figurative language, three kinds are commonly used in poetry. They are simile, metaphor, and personification. a. Simile Both simile and metaphor are “invented by the poet to make an unusual comparison of things or objects or ideas which are basically dissimilar or unlike or unequal to give rise to strong images” (Iswalono, 2008:46). In simile, the comparison is made explicit or direct by the use of such connectives as like, as, similar to, or a verb such as resemble, appear, or seem. To classify this concept, Abrams (via Iswalono) quoted a famous line from Robert Burns “Oh, my love is like a red, red rose”. Here, “my love” (a human being) is compared to “a red rose” (an inanimate object) as the former shares the quality inherent in the letter, that is beauty. Remember that in Western Culture, a rose is always closely associated with beauty. b.
Metaphor Different from simile, this kind of figurative language uses implicit comparison. In other words, it functions to present images through indirect comparison between basically two dissimilar things or object or ideas. If Burns’ line above is altered into “Oh, my love is a red rose”, then it uses metaphor. Iswalono (2008:50) asserts that such a comparison as “Bandung is Paris of Java” does not use metaphor as those being compared are basically equal. Bandung is a city and Paris is also a city.
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Interlanguage: English for Senior High School Students XII