Figurative Language and Imagery Analysis on “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” By William Wordsworth: Semantics Study

Chintiya Veronika
Ida Zuraida

Budapest International Research and Critics Institute-Journal (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences
Vol 5, No 2 (2022): Budapest International Research and Critics Institute May

This study’s aim is to analyze and examine the types figurative language and imagery that consist in the poem. The analysis used a descriptive qualitative research method. The data used were taken from I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud book by William Wordsworth. The result demonstrates that there are four types of figurative language occurs found; 23% occurrence of comparison, 10% occurrence of contradiction, 10% occurrence of correlations, and 16% occurrence of repetition figurative language. Also, there are two types of imagery found; percentage occurrence of visual imagery is 47% while kinesthetic imagery is 10%. According to the findings of this analysis, figurative language occurs frequently in the type of comparison for percentage of 23% and visual imagery with 47% occurrence.