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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is basically a study of stylistic. As Widowson said in his book,
Stylistics and The Teaching of Literature, that Stylistics is the study of literary
discourse from a linguistic orientation. Because of this statement, the writer is
interested to analyze Emily Dickinson's book of poem by using Semantic and
Stylistic approach. Through the study on Emily Dickinson's book of poem, the writer
intends to analyze her attitude toward death.
Talking about attitude toward death, there are 2 kinds of attitude, positive and
negative. Different people, of course, have different attitudes. Therefore, the writer is
interested to know whether Emily has positive or negative attitude. Or she even has
no both of them that means she is neutral.
The writer studies 18 poems of the whole book entitled Emily Dickinson. She
uses two keywords to analyze the lexical items of 18 poems which have the theme of
death. She then divides the two keywords into "nice" which refers to positive attitude
due to use of nice words and "unpleasant" which refers to negative attitude due to use
of bad words. The writer would like to find out (1) What lexical items refer to the
first keyword and (2) What lexical items refer to the second keyword by using
semantic approach (3) I low they are used. Then, the writer counts the number of
lexical items of each keyword in each poem to find the result whether the poem has
positive or negative attitude toward death. Finally, the writer will count how many
poems reveal Hniily's positive attitude and how many poems reveal her negative
attitude.
By using the result of the count of the number of poem, the writer finds that at
last, Emily has positive attitude toward death. Although her attitude often changes in
her whole life, Emily decides to give more positive attitude toward death than
negative attitude until she dies. The way Emily expresses her positive attitude comes
from the "nice" words she chooses. Emily use many "nice" words which have 45
nouns, 32 adjectives, 30 verbs and 7 adverbs of lexical items. It is obvious that Emily
uses more nouns in her poems and less adverbs.