INFERENCE: Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 5, No 2 (2022): INFERENCE: Journal of English Language Teaching

The Meaning of Survival in the Poetry of Jacob Isaac, and its Semantics Learning Implementation

Hertin Indira Utojo (Universitas Indraprasta PGRI)
Oom Rohmah Syamsudin (Universitas Indraprasta PGRI)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Dec 2022

Abstract

The social, political, and economy atmosphere of a country often evokes the desire of literary activists to express their imagination, feelings, ideology in the form of social, political and cultural criticism through art, including poetry. Likewise, Jacob Isaac, a Bachelor and Master of Arts, as well as Doctor of English Literature, who was born in Kerala, South India, expresses imagination, feelings, ideology by creating the English poetry. In this research, the research writer chose three poetry written by Jacob Isaac as data sources entitled Indifference, Neural Mapping, Aging Liberty. The objective of this research is to describe the meaning of (1) survival in the above poetry; and (2) its implementation in English semantics learning. The research writer uses a qualitative research method and triadic semiotic model of Charles Sanders Peirce, consists of (1) representamen consists of rhyme form and sound, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic relates to deixis, figurative and isotopy aspects); (2) interpretant consists of the biography of Jacob Isaac, history of India, social, political and cultural background aspects). The goal using interpretant is in order to get the research results more objective. This research was conducted from March to May 2021.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

inference

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Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

INFERENCE: Journal of English Language Teaching (ELT) focuses on various aspects of teaching and learning English as a second or foreign language. It covers innovative teaching methods, language skill development, teacher training, assessment practices, curriculum design, learner-centered ...