ABSTRACT

Fransiska Eva, 2014: An Analysis On The Structural Devices Used In The Poem “The Divine Image” By William Blake From The Sociological Approach.Thesis: English Study Program of St. Paul College Ruteng. Supervisor (I): Raimundus Beda, S. Fil., M. Hum; supervisor (II: Lutgardis M. Dedo, M. Hum)
Keywords: poem, structural devices, and sociological approach.

Poetry is one way done by human being to express their thoughts, feelings, hopes, desires, souls and emotion by using beautiful language. There are three elements in poetry should be analyzed, they are: sense devices, sound or musical devices and structural devices. Which the structural devices is the main concerned on this study.
Dealing with this, the study is intended to analyze the structural devices used in the poem “The Divine image” by William Blake. The poem “The Divine image” by William Blake tells about the relationship between man and God, where the God shows His existence within humanity. This poem talks much about the social and religious values, so by realizing the content of this poem by the writer analyzed it from the sociological approach. Sociological approach is one approach that focuses on man’s relationship to others in society, politics, religion, and business.
There is one research question on this writing, that “what are the structural devices used in the poem “The Divine Image” by William Blake? In order to answer this question, the writer gathered and collected the data from the poem itself, especially about the use of structural devices. To find out the information about the structural devices in the poem “The Divine image” by William Blake, the researcher used three procedures: first, display the data in the table that related to the structural devices, second, classify the data, classify the data based on its kinds they are: contrast, illustration, and repetition (alliteration, assonance, consonance and rhyme), fourth interpreting and analyzing in which the researcher interpreted and concluded.
The result of this analysis shows that the poem “The Divine Image” by William Blake used all types of structural devices which “contrast” occurs six times, “illustration” one time, “repetition” eleven times, “alliteration” four times, “assonance” one time, “consonance” three times and “rhymes” ten times.