THE POETIC DEVICES IN CHRISTINA ROSSETTI'S POEMS

This study concerned poetic devices in the poems entitled Song (when I’m dead my dearest) and Remember by Christina Rossetti such as imagery, symbol, metaphor and irony by using new criticism theory. Analyzing the poetic devices in the poem makes the reader easier to know what the speaker want to tell. This study is intended to find the themes and the messages of the poems.
Moreover, this study uses new criticism theory in Louis Tyson’s book to analyze the data. Tyson stated that new criticism focused on the text itself. New criticism rejected the author’s background, social condition, culture and the personal interpretation of the reader. In addition, Qualitative design is used in this study because the data collected and analyzed are in the form of words. The data of this study are the words in the poems.
The data analysis conveys the findings covering the formulated research questions. After analyzing imagery, symbol, metaphor and irony, it can be found the themes and the messages of the poems. Death is the main theme and the supporting theme is love. Moreover, there are five messages that can be formulated from the analysis of poetic devices and the themes (1) Since the death is inevitable, we should be sincere to let someone or the loved one dead, (2) As the one who are left living, we should not sinking deep down and mourning the death one, (3) We must keep in mind that whoever has passed that wishing us not to feel sad, whether family member, friend or lover, (4) Do not mark death with grieve because it is one of the circle of life and life must go on, (5) If the memories is too hard and make us sad, we should remember the happy memories of him/her so we can move on.