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PARAPHRASING A POETRY

“THE DAY WE MET”


TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Background Of The Study 1
1.2 Statement Of The Problem 1
CHAPTER II ANALYZE OF POETRY 2
2.1 The Poetry 2
2.2 Discussion 3
CHAPTER III CONCLUSION 4



CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background Of The Study
English is the second language for people have some resource to improve the English skill / ability. One of the purpose they supply media such as make short story, poetry, novel, biography, narrative or descriptive sentence and etc. It is help us to increase the imaginative work.
If we want to understanding or studying a linguish patterns, we must be studying literature and their culture. However it is can not optimal if we did not know about literature. The literature form is fiction and non fiction.

1.2 Statement Of The Problem
Poetry has always been about emotion, thrilling, bitterness and even humorous. Although it sound simple enough, it is not always. Poetry can be as complicated or as frivolous possible, it is all up to the author. So must difficult to find the meaning. Sometime have different to explained between anyone with another. In this case, we will try to analyze a poetry which the title is “The Day We Met”. The specific problems are they :
1. How do the students paraphrase a poetry ?
2. What the theme from this poetry ?





CHAPTER II
ANALYZE OF POETRY

2.1 The Poetry

The Day We Met
By Gary R. Hess
I met you on Valentine Day
One year five months twelve day I saw your face
You came down from heaven and opened my eyes

Your skin so smooth, so tender
Smile so bright, so loving

I have though about you in every way
Just sitting and wondering about that day

We laughed, we smiled
We talked for along while

That day with you was so great
And everyone passing is only more wonderful
I love you more now, than ever before




2.2 Discussion
The title : The Day We Met
The author : Gary R. Hess
Paraphrasing :
Someone (the writer) met someone else (different sex) on Valentine Day. After that he had seen her for more one years. They have relationship, laughed and smiled together for a while. He felt life so wonderful, great with her. He still loved however long distance.
The meaning is the beauty of love lasts a life time, but what happens when the relationship is long distance ?. It is still the same only hundreds of miles way. When you’re in love it does not matter, if you loved one is in the same city, state or even country. Love has no distance.
Theme : love poem
Rhyme : Day; face; eyes; tender; loving; way; day; smiled; while;
greate; wonderful; before
Rhyme scheme : abb; bc; aa; bb; bcb
The form of poetry : closed poem (the stanza)
The language of poetry : hyperbole





CHAPTER III
CONCLUSION

The analyze of the elements poetry are much, beginning from the meaning, form of poetry, paraphrasing, the language which used, rhyme and etc. This very large discussion if all discussed. We must have knowledge about them.
For the understand to paraphrase a poetry, we must read more than ones to know the meaning. Keep a dictionary by you for make different sentences but not change the meaning.