THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED IN AYU MEUTIA’S POETRY TIGRESS BASED ON GIBBS & COLSTON’S THEORY

Christina Sri Rejeki.2021. THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED IN AYU
MEUTIA’S POETRY TIGRESS. Final Project, English Study
Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education, University of
PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Fitri Yulianti, S.Pd., M.Pd., Advisor II:
Indri Kustantinah, SS, M.Hum.
Keywords: Figurative Language, Poetry, Poetry Tigress
The purpose of this article is to find the truth of Gibbs & Colston theory in
Meutia’s poetry and to find out the types of figurative language and the most
dominant kind of figurative language in Meutia’s poetry. The study focused
figurative language in Meutia’s poetry Tigress. The study used descriptive
qualitative method and Gibbs and Colston’s theory (2012) is used for identifying
the figurative language. The writer chooses six poetries randomly. There are
Moonset, Migration, Materialism, Your City, What Your Heart is Not, and Awkward
Silence. Gibbs & Colston theory (2012) conducted about evaluating the use of
metaphors, metonymy, irony, idioms, and proverbs. Gibbs & Colston (2012 : 19)
state that special feature of figurative language may have much to do with their
meaning products as with the cognitive processes used to create those meaning. The
result of the study are idiom 1 data, irony 6 data, metaphor 36 data, and metonymy
2 data. Proverbs are not found in this study. Figurative language is found metaphor,
metonymy, idiom, and irony. The most dominant figurative language in Poetry
Tigress is metaphor. Figurative language in poetry gives sense and beauty to the
poem. It helps people to expression, description of something, to make easy people
to reference of something, to give inspiration and motivation.