WOMAN’S EXISTENCE IN THE ENGLAND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AS REFLECTED IN WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’S THE FEMALE VAGRANT: A SEMIOTIC STUDY

Puspita Sari, Ary Diah and Raden, Muhammad Ali WOMAN’S EXISTENCE IN THE ENGLAND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AS REFLECTED IN WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’S THE FEMALE VAGRANT: A SEMIOTIC STUDY. In: Seminar Pendidikan Nasional, June, 2013, UAD.

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Abstract

This research is entitled “Woman’s Existence in The England Industrial Revolution as Reflected in William Wordsworth’s The Female Vagrant : A Semiotic Study”. The ideas of this research are to recognize the significance of the poem, to get acquitance of the poem’s elements, and to comprehend how the author indexes the woman’s existence in the poem.

The type of this research is qualitative research. All of sources are taken from the books and internet. The subject of this research is the poem The Female Vagrant written by William Wordsworth and the object of the research is the indexes of woman’s existence in industrial revolution. To collect data, the writer uses two different techniques, namely critical reading and documentation. These datas are analyzed by using descriptive qualitative method and applying the semiotic study by Michael Riffatterrre and C.S. Pierce.

The results of this research are as follows. First, the significance of this poem refers to the impact of industrial revolution where it can find three aspects that are influencing for the world namely, economical aspect, political aspect, and social aspect. Second, The Female Vagrant contains four elements of poem. They are diction, tone, imagery and figurative language. The diction of this poem uses denotative and connotative meaning. The poem also has tone. The tone are critical, ironic, serious, and dramatic where the main character will experience the hard life in the industrial revolution. Imagery of this poem is divided into five parts namely visuasl imagery, auditory imagery, thermal imagery, tactile imagery, and kinesthetic imagery. These imagery give imaginative description of this poem. Figurative language is one of the elements in the poem. The Female Vagrant uses the figurative language that gives the interesting expression. Third, the author indexes woman’s existence by agriculture and mining in industrial revolution and woman’s existence in the industrial revolution.

Keywords : Woman’s existence, Industrial revolution, Poem, Semiotic study

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisi / Prodi:	Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan) > S1-English Education (S1-Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris)
Depositing User:	S.S., M.Pd. Muhammad Ali Raden
Date Deposited:	12 Nov 2015 03:14
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2015 03:14
URI:	http://eprints.uad.ac.id/id/eprint/2658

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