Eralingua : Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Asing dan Sastra
Vol 3, No 2 (2019): ERALINGUA

The Symbolic Expression of Black American In Langston Hughes’ Poem ‘’Freedom’s Plow’’

Rasiah Rasiah (Universitas Halu Oleo)
Ansor Putra (Universitas Halu Oleo)
Irfan Irfan (Halu Oleo Universty)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Aug 2019

Abstract

Langston Hughes is a black American poet who strived to express the experiences of Black in the United States. One of his poem is Fredom Plow which utilized through lots symbols that refered to the problem of discrimination and the vision of American as a nation. This study is aimed to analyze the expression of Black American expression in Freedom’s Plow poem. This study used semiotics approach in analyzing research data by adopting model proposed by C.S Pierce. There are three types of signs based on the relationship between the sign and the signified, namely; Icons, Index, and symbols. Based on the semiotics frameworks, this study found that  Langston Hughes harneses the signs to express (1) preserverance of black to get freedom, (2) expossing the contradiction of American democracy, and (3) the expression of togetherness and unity

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Journal Info

Abbrev

eralingua

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Eralingua has been published by Department of Foreign Language Education, Faculty of Language and Literature Universitas Negeri Makassar. This journal receives research articles which examine about foreign language which use various approaches like linguistics, education, and literature. The Journal ...