SEMANTICS

ANALYSIS OF

POEMS

GROUP MEMBERS Fatin Munirah Abd Latif 1022018

Haizum Diyana Che Abllah 1026252 Nur Aishah Maidin 1026002

Nurul Jannah Abd Razak 1029366 Rabeatuladelah Mohd Ridzuan

1028360 Siti Halimatun Saadiah Adnan 1025896

REJECTION

SONNET 18

ELEMENTS IN POETRY

SYNONYMS~ words or expressions that have the same meaning in

some or all contexts.

ANTONYMS~ words that are opposite in meaning

HOMONYMS~ words that have different meanings but are pronounced

the same and may or may not be spelled the same.

o POLYSEMOUS~ when a words have a multiple meaning that are related conceptually or historically.

o HYPONYMS~ sets of words.

o SIMILE~ a direct comparison between two different things, actions or feelings using a connective such as ‘like’ ‘as’ ‘than’ and ‘resembles’.

o METAPHOR~ an indirect comparison on things, ideas or actions which share a common quality.

REJECTIONSUMMARY

A woman rejects a guy’s love for her when he proclaims his love as she likes

to be single and does no want her freedom to be restricted if she accept his love. Hence, his unrequited love is left without any acceptance from her.

SUMMARY BY STANZASTANZA 1

~ the declaration of love from a guy to a woman.

Element

Simile : His face was like the golden

STANZA 2

~ He was very confident with his confession towards the woman.

Element

Word choice : entities – object

STANZA 3

~ She wishes to tell the truth that she doesn’t want to accept the love because she can’t see the bright future for both of them.

Element

Simile : His love like she had breathe the air.

STANZA 4

~ She has clearly decided to reject the love.

Element

STANZA 5

~ The guy can’t face the truth about the rejection.

Element

metaphor & ambiguity : head of golden – hair/love

STANZA 6

~ She claims that she cares more about freedom than love.

Element

metaphor : golden – sun

STANZA 7

~ Line 1 : Something that is difficult usually hard to get because we need to put uttermost effort to get.

Element Metaphor : What is hard to gain is usually

golden.

~Line 2 : Do not simply give and accept love because it will lead to problems.

~ Line 3 : The guy should willing to accept the rejection and realize that by accepting the woman’s decision , he actually respecting the decision make by the woman. That is what true love is all about.

Ambiguity : golden – excitement (S1), bright future (S3), description of heart (S4)love/hair (S5), sun(S6), bittersweet of life (S7)

Symbol : ~Bird : freedom of life ~

ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE

Love towards Allah is the most important thing in our life.

Nothing is precious than Allah’s love.

SONNET 18SUMMARY

This poem is about the comparison between the persona and the summer.

The poet stress that the persona is more beautiful than the summer as the summer

has a lot of imperfections.

MEANING LINE BY LINE

LINE 1 You cannot be compared to the summer. Presuppositions – summer’sLINE 2 You are more lovely and more constant.

Synonyms – temperate : moderateLINE 3 Rough winds shake the beautiful flowers .

Symbol – rough winds : imperfection

LINE 4 Summer is short. LINE 5 Sometimes summer can be too hot.

Metaphor – the eye of heaven : sun LINE 6 And sometimes summer can be shady. LINE 7 Everything that beautiful may lost it’s beauty. LINE 8 The beauty can be lost in any way. LINE 9 The beauty of the persona will never fail like the summer beauty

Symbol – eternal summer : eternal beauty LINE 10 The beauty of the persona will never lost

Synonyms – fair : beauty

LINE 11 The beauty will never fade even when the persona die.

Synonyms – shade : shadow

LINE 12 There is nothing could threaten the persona’s beautiful appearance. Ambiguity – line : 1) verse

2) wrinklesLINE 13 As long as human breath and people see

the poemLINE 14 As long as people read the poem people will

celebrate and renew the beauty