TABLE OF CONTENT

TABLE OF CONTENT...........................................................................................2

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION

I. 1 Background of The Study..............................................................................3

I. 2 Purpose of The Study.....................................................................................3

I. 3 Scope of The Study........................................................................................3

CHAPTER II: BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET, THE POEM,

AND TRANSLATION OF THE POEM

II. 1 Biography of the Poet..................................................................................4

II. 2 The Poem.....................................................................................................4-5

II. 3 Translation of the Poem...............................................................................6-7

CHAPTER III: LITERARY REVIEW

III. 1 Imagery......................................................................................................8-10

III. 2 Personification............................................................................................10

CHAPTER IV: DISCUSSION

IV. 1 Imagery......................................................................................................11-13

IV. 2 Personification...........................................................................................13-14

CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION...............................................................................15

REFERENCE...........................................................................................................16

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 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

I.1 Background of the Study

Poetry is a form in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and
ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. Perrine says:

“Poetry might be defined as a kind of languages that says more and says it more
intensely than does ordinary language, to understand this fully, we need to
understand what poetry says. For language is employed o different occasions to
say quite different kinds of things; in other words, language has different uses
(Perrine, 1988:509)”.
Analyzing poetry is an activity that we are concerned with explaining the methods
and techniques of taking poem apart in order to arrive at a greater understanding of both
its construction and each meaning. The author uses the poem The Twa Corbies to be
analyzed.

I.2 Purpose of the Study

The purpose of this analysis is to know how the poet representing The Twa Corbies.
How we can learn personification and sense of imagery in this poem. The main purpose
in this paper is explain about the meaning the poetry and what is the writer want to say in
this poetry beside that we want to understand the poetry more better use intrinsic
elements.

I.3 Scope of the Study

In this paper, the author use figurative language as a theory of literature. We decided
to use several theory and the theories that the author choose are personification and
imagery as intrinsic elements.

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 CHAPTER II

BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET, THE POEM, AND TRANSLATION OF

THE POEM

II.1 Biography of the Poet

Anonymous.

II.2 The Poem

The TwaCorbies

As I was walking all alane,

I heard twa corbies makin a mane;
The tane unto the ither say,
"Wharsall we gang and dine the-day?"

"In ahint yon auld fail dyke,

I wot there lies a new slain knight;
And nane do ken that he lies there,
But his hawk, his hound an his lady fair."

"His hound is tae the huntingane,

His hawk tae fetch the wild-fowl hame,
His lady's tainanither mate,
So we may makoor dinner swate."

"Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane,

And I'll pike oot his bonny blue een;
Wi ae lock o his gowden hair
We'll theekoor nest whan it grows bare."

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"Mony a one for him makes mane,
But nanesall ken whar he is gane;
Oer his white banes, whan they are bare,
The wind sallblaw for evermair."

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II.3 Translation

Dua Burung Gagak

Ketika aku sedang berjalan dalam kesendirian,

Aku mendengar dua burung gagak menggaok;

Mereka saling bercakap satu sama lain,

"Kemana kita akan pergi untuk makan malam hari ini?"

"Dibalik rerumputan tua,

Aku merasakan ada ksatria yang barus aja terbunuh;

Tidak seorang pun tahu ia terbaring disana,

Kecuali seekor elang, anjing, dan istrinya”

"Anjingnya telah pergi berburu,

Elangnya telah pergi membuat sarang,

Dan istrinya telah pergi bersama pasangan lain,

Jadi kita bisa membuatnya menjadi makan malam yang manis."

"Kamu akan duduk di lehernya yang putih,

Sementara aku akan mematuk mata birunya yang menawan;

Dengan seikat rambutnya yang pirang,

Kita akan membuat sarang. "

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"Banyak orang membicarakan tentangnya,

Tapi tak seorang pun tahu kemana ia pergi;

Bagaikan daging yang habis sampai ketulang,

Dan bagaikan angin yang berhembus.

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 CHAPTER III
LITERARY REVIEW

III.1 Imagery
According to Perrine, “Imagery may be defined as the representation through
language of sense experience” (Perrine, 1988:54). According to Oxford Advanced
Learner’s Dictionary 7th Edition, Imagery is the language that produces pictures in the
minds of people reading or listening (2006:743). Imagery has several functions in poem,
they are: to give image, to make the things become real and lives in reader’s mind, and to
give special situation or effect.
There are many kinds of imagery such as, visual imagery, auditory imagery,
olfactory imagery, gustatory imagery, tactile imagery, organic imagery, and kinesthetic
imagery.

III.1.1 Visual Imagery

Visual imagery is an image that involves what the eye see. Visual imagery
is the most frequently occuring kind of imagery in poetry. For example in
Robert Browning’s poetry, Meeting At Night stanza 1 line 1-2.
The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;

There are three colours in the lines; grey, black, and yellow. Colour can be
seen by our eyes and the differences can be sight.

III.1.2 Auditory Imagery

Auditory imagery is an image that appears from the sense of hearing. The
example John Boyle O’Reilley, A White Rose stanza 1 line 1.
The red rose whispers of passion

Whispers is a low quite voice or the sound, and to hear sound we have to
use our sense of hearing.

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III.1.3 Olfactory Imagery

Olfactory imagery is an image that appears from the sense of the smell.
For example, Meeting At Night by Robert Browning stanza 2 line 1.
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach

Robert Browning brings us to imagine the scent of the sea.

III.1.4 Gustatory Imagery

It relates with what our tongue taste. Here is the example:

O my love, O my dear
You are like honey in my tea every morning

The word honey makes our tongue feel the sweet taste of honey and how
nice it when it is served for tea.

III.1.5 Tactile Imagery

Tactile imagery is an image that can be felt by skin to feel the hardness,
softness, cold, warm, etc. The Chimney Sweeper stanza 6 line 23 by
William Blake are the example of this imagery.
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm

Cold and warm can be felt by our skin.

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 III.1.6 Organic Imagery

Organic imagery relates with the sense inside of the body, such as
hungry, thirsty, tired, sad, etc. Here is the example from The Villain by
W. H. Davies:
And calves and lambs had tottering knees,
Excited, while they sucked;

The lines introduce the internal sensation or organic sensation through

the word excited. By using this word, the readers will picture the
sensation of happy and then imagine how it is like, and finally they can
also feel the excited and happy sensation itself.

III.1.7 Kinesthetic Imagery

Kinesthetic imagery is the image that appears from movement. The
Chimney Sweeper stanza 4 line 13-16 by William Blake are the example
of this imagery.
And by came an angel who had a bright key,
He opened the coffins and set them all free;
Then down a green plain leaping, laughing, they run,
And wash in a river, and shine in the sun.

From the poetry above, Blake shown how the angel open the coffins and
the boys that playing after they are free.

III.2 Personification

According to Perrine, “Personification consist in giving the attributes of a human

being to an animal, an object, or an idea.” (Perrine, 1988:67). For example:

“The window winked at me.”

The verb, wink, is a human action. A window is a non-living object.
(http://www.imschools.org/cms/Units/Poetry/personif.htm)

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 CHAPTER IV

DISCUSSION

IV.1 Imagery

There are many imagery in this poem. The analysis of imagery in the poem “The
Twa Corbies” will be discussed as follow :

IV.1.1 Stanza 1

IV.1.1 Line 1

“As I was walking all alane,”

This line is kinesthetic imagery because it show someone who
walking.

IV.1.2 Line 2,3,4

I heard twa corbies makin a mane;

The tane unto the ither say,

"Wharsall we gang and dine the-day?"

These lines are auditory imagery. In the line 2, it shows someone

who heard two crows groaning. In the line 3, it almost same with the
second line but this time the crows are talking each other and for the
fourth line is what they talking about.

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IV.1.2 Stanza 2

IV.1.2.1 Line 1,2

"In ahint yon auld fail dyke,

I wot there lies a new slain knight;”

This line called visual imagery because this line representation the crow
sees the knight lay down on the ground. Because they never know the knight
was lying if they not see him.

IV.1.3 Stanza 3

IV.1.3.1 Line 1,2,3

"His hound is tae the huntingane,

His hawk tae fetch the wild-fowl hame,
His lady's tainanither mate,”
In this lines called kinesthetic because the dog is going to hunting, in the
second line the hawk is going to make a new nest, and for the third line his lady
is going to find another man.

IV.1.4 Stanza 4

IV.1.4.1 Line 1,2,3

"Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane,

And I'll pike oot his bonny blue een;
Wiae lock o his gowden hair”
In these lines is visual imagery it shows by described about the physical of
knight. Such as white hause-bane, blue een, and gowden hair.

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 IV.1.5 Stanza 5

IV.1.5.1 Line 1

"Mony a one for him makes mane,”

In this line is auditory imagery it shown by everyone who talking about
him.

IV.1.5.2 Line 4

“The wind sallblaw for evermair”

In this line is kinesthetic imagery, it shown by the wind that blaw.

IV.2 Personification
Personification that be found in this poem can be seen below, such as:

IV.2.1 Stanza 1, line 3 and 4

“The tane unto the ither say,

Wharsall we gang and dine the-day?"

In these lines, personification shown by the conversation between two crows, in

fact crows cannot talk each other. And then the animal like crows, haven’t dinner, but
they can eat any time they want.

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IV.2.2 Stanza 2

"In ahint yon auld fail dyke,

I wot there lies a new slain knight;
And nane do ken that he lies there,
But his hawk, his hound and his lady fair."

In these lines, personification shows how the crows thinking like a human. They
see the knight body but they don’t know who was killed him, and think just hawk,
hound and his lady fair that knows the cause of it.

IV.2.3 Stanza 3

"His hound is tae the huntingane,

His hawk tae fetch the wild-fowl hame,
His lady's tainanither mate,”
So we may makoor dinner swate."

In this lines, personification shown by the conversation of the crows. That they
will have a great dinner with eating the knight corpse who abandon by his guards, like
his hound who leave him. Actually the hound must be loyal to the master. The hawk
should be can to prey on body of the knight. But the hawk chooses to leave him and
make a nest in another place.

IV.2.4 Stanza 4

"Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane,

And I'll pike oot his bonny blue een;
Wiae lock o his gowden hair
We'll theekoor nest whan it grows bare."

In these lines, personification shown by plans of the crows will sit on his neck
and peck his blue eyes. And will make a nest with his golden hair. In fact, the crows
cannot sit and make a plan.

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 CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION

This poem shows about two crows who want to eat but they didn’t find it yet until
they see a knight corpse in the green field, but the corpse is guarded by his hawk, hound
and his wife, but they wait the corpse with patient until the guards leave. The guards of
the knight body are not so royal it shown by the dog and his wife, they left him alone,
they even burry him with proper, they just leave him, and it was an advantages to the
crows whose hungry and greedy they want every piece of the knight dead body.

In this poem contain many imagery and personification such as auditory, visual
and many personification with that all the writer can found what the purpose of the poet
is, the poet want to show the dark side of the crows that almost same with a human they
greedy, mean and sneaky. The most clearly show by the poet in the poem is the most
people abandon someone who they didn’t need and threat someone nicely if they need it
so much, and that what people do mostly in the real world, that is what the writer can get
from the poem.

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