Figurative language used in Robert Browning's love poems

ABSTRACT

Literature is inherently connected to human life, as it reflects and captures human experiences and realities. One significant form of literature is poetry, particularly love poetry, which is both artistically rich and widely recognized. Poetry encompasses various types, including love poems, heroic poems, tragic poems, and more. This study focuses on Robert Browning's love poems, exploring their use of figurative language. The research addresses the following questions: (1) What types of figurative language are used in Robert Browning's love poems? and (2) How are these types of figurative language employed in his poems?

The objectives of this study are to identify the types of figurative language present in Robert Browning's love poems and to understand how these figures of speech are utilized. The study is limited to five selected poems containing figurative language. An expressive approach is used to analyze the data, which are drawn from "Poetry of the Victorian Period."

The research involves reading the entire collection of Browning's love poems, selecting five that include figurative language, and validating the data through online sources. The analysis process includes selecting, classifying, and drawing conclusions about the figurative language used. The study identifies several types of figurative language in Browning's poems, including personification, hyperbole, metaphor, simile, antithesis, irony, metonymy, and allusions. Personification and hyperbole are the most frequently used, while allegory, oxymoron, paradox, synecdoche, parallelism, and symbol are notably absent.

This study aims to serve as a reference for future researchers interested in similar areas of literary analysis.