PATRIOTISME DALAM PUISI-PUISI KATHARINE LEE BATES = PATRIOTISM IN KATHARINE LEE BATES’S SELECTED POEMS

Siti Rahma Zakaria. 2023. Patriotism in Katharine Lee Bates’s Selected Poems. (Supervised by Abidin Pammu and Andi Inayah Soraya).
This research aims to reveal patriotism values that are conveyed in Katharine Lee Bates Selected Poems; America the Beautiful, The Flag, The American Coast, Year of Vision (1893), and Glory. The objectives of this research are to describe the figurative language in Katharine Lee Bates’s selected poems and to reveal how poets express patriotism in the selected poems.
This research uses descriptive qualitative methods to meet the objectives. The data source of this research is America the Beautiful and other poems by Katharine Lee Bates, published in 1911, New York. Furthermore, this research uses a structuralism approach based on Ferdinand de Saussure theory which focuses on intrinsic elements of literary works. The intrinsic elements which are figurative languages are used to reveal patriotism values in selected poems.
The results of this study indicate that Katharine Lee Bates uses different kinds of figurative language to convey patriotism or love for the country. Those figurative languages are metaphor, personification, simile, synecdoche, metonymy, hyperbole, symbol, allusion, paradox, and understatement. Moreover, the poets express her patriotism in the most decent way by praising and feeling grateful for her country extraordinaries.
Keywords: Patriotism, Love for the county, Structuralism Approach, America the Beautiful and others poems.

Keywords : Patriotism, Love for the county, Structuralism Approach, America the Beautiful and others poems.