An analysis Of symbols in Robert Burns' poems Afton Water and a red, red rose

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Farza, Afton Nidal (2021) An analysis Of symbols in Robert Burns' poems Afton Water and a red, red rose. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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This is the research which concerns to analyze the intrinsict elements of Robert Burn’s poem Afton Water and A Red, Red Rose. This research focuses on the symbol and the theme of those poems. Hopefully, this research is useful for reader to get the deeper meaning about those poems. The approach that is use in this research is semiotic of poetry by Michael Riffaterre. A descriptive qualitative method is used by the researcher for the study. The data collection is done by describing the whole meaning of poems using 2 steps, the first is heuristic reading and the second is hermeneutic reading. Then the researcher marks the words that indicate the symbol and the theme of the poems. And the researcher analyze and interpreting the meaning of the word that is found. The result of this research found that there are three symbols in Afton water poem; 1. River (symbol of life) 2. Birk/birch (symbol of protection) 3. Flow gently (symbol of the journey of life). And the theme of Afton Water poem is Pastoral poem. The symbols that found in A Red, Red Rose are; 1. Red (energy of love) 2. Rose (symbol of woman) 3. Melodie/melody (shape of love) 4. Seas (level of love) 5. Rocks (quality of love) 6. Sands (symbol of time in life). And the theme of A Red, Red Rose is Love poem.