A Study on The Structure of Predication Used in “Everyman’s Poetry” By Christina Rossetti

ABSTRACT

Since structure is part of language, syntax is part of linguistics. Structure is also found in language of poetry. Poetry is language that makes abundant use figures of speech and language that aims to be powerfully persuasive. Structure and poetry are two different things. But their combination can make various kinds of sentences.

This study discusses about poetry in “Everyman’s Poetry” by Christina Rossetti. It will connect the sentences on the poetry with syntax study, especially syntactic structures only on structure of predication. It chooses some poetry in “Everyman’s Poetry” by Christina Rossetti about life as the data in this study.

The research problems to be discussed in this study is “what types of subject and predicate are used on structure of predication in “Everyman’s Poetry” by Christina Rossetti?”. In connection with the problems, the objective of the study is to find out and explain the types of predicate used on structure of predication in “Everyman’s Poetry” by Christina Rossetti”. It uses “Chinese Boxes” theory suggested by W. Nelson Francis in his book entitled “The Structure of American English” (1958) and a descriptive qualitative research design.

This study went through some steps in analyzing the data: Firstly, indentifying by writing down and underlining the sentences on some poems in “Everyman’s Poetry” by Christina Rossetti that are included in structure of predication, secondly, finding out or analyzing every line on some poems that was chosen in Christina Rossetti’s poems. Then, concluding the result of analyzing some poetry on its structure of predication.

The result of the analysis goes as follow: First, this study only found three kinds of the types of subject, they are: a) noun headed, b) structure of modification, c) structure of coordination. And then, the types of predicate that found in the data are only two types, they are structure of modification and structure of complementation. Based on the analysis, there are some suggestions given: to the students of UIN Malang and all of people who want to improve their knowledge deeply in studying syntax especially in structure of predication, they have to look for the other objects to find out the other subject and predicate because this study just finds 3 types of subject and 2 types of predicate and to next researchers, they should analyze other syntactic structures and other theorists such as structure of modification, structure of complementation, or structure of coordination because this study just discusses structure of predication and uses the Francis theory, and they also should analyze other objects, for examples, proverbs, translation of Surah in Holy Quran, novel, etc.