CONNOTATIVE MEANING FOUND IN SELECTED BEN PEDARY’S POEMS AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO POETRY TEACHING

ABSTRACT
Tantyasari, Mayhusna Ino. 2021. Connotative Meaning Found In Selected Ben Pedary’s
Poems and Its Contribution to Poetry Teaching. Final Project, English Education Study
Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education, University of PGRI Semarang.
Advisor I: Siti Nur’aini, S.Pd., M.Hum., Ph.D. Advisor II: Laily Nur A., SPd., M.Hum.,
Keywords: Connotative meaning, Poems of Ben Pedary, Teaching Poetry.
This research contains connotative meaning found in selected Ben Pedary’s
poems and their contribution to poetry teaching as concentration. The purpose of this
final project are as follows 1) to find out the connotative meanings of selected Ben
Pedary’s poems in each phrase or sentence. 2) to find out the meanings of each selected
poem of Ben Pedary. 3) to find out the contribution of Ben Pedary’s poems to poetry
teaching. Choice of poems as the object of this research caused by poem conceive many
connotations whereby it associated to the author’s thought, culture and feeling to be
analyzed more its meaning. Theory from Leech was taken by the authors to find out
connotative phrase or sentence in selected Ben Pedary’s poem to be analyzed its
meaning. The method used for this final project is descriptive qualitative to analyze the
data. Based on Hook’s theory connotative meaning divided into three kinds: positive,
neutral, and negative connotations. This research found all three of kinds in connotative
meanings detailed as follows: 18 positive connotations, 5 neutral connotations, and 22
negative connotations. The meaning in each Ben Pedary’s poem is commonly about an
unpleasant phenomenon that make the reader relate to the sadness consists in it because it
is close to daily life. Furthermore, its contribution to poetry teaching are the students can
be more sensitive to a language. Students can see the real-world and increase their
knowledge. The students also can enrich their poetic vocabulary and activate imagination.
Furthermore, understanding the implicit meaning can be trained to see something not
only by one perspective