Institutional Repository UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. 2024-03-29T08:18:51ZEPrintshttp://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/images/sitelogo.pnghttps://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/2013-07-12T09:38:10Z2015-10-15T03:43:17Zhttp://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/8858This item is in the repository with the URL: http://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/88582013-07-12T09:38:10ZREADING DEATH IN D.H. LAWRENCE’S
“THE SHIP OF DEATH”
Death will certainly come to every living beings, but nobody knows how it
exactly feels or what happens during and after the death. This mystery, however,
has evoked people‟s imagination, and many have expressed their own versions in
their works. D.H. Lawrence‟s “The Ship of Death” is one of the relevant works
that could figure it out in a meaningful way, and this research is intended to
explore how death is described in the poem. Since this research approaches the
work intrinsically, it applies Ransom‟s notion of New Criticism Theory. For the
data processing, this uses descriptive-qualitative research method. Based on the
in-depth analysis, this research has found that in “The Ship of Death,” the
description of death is divided into three phases: (1) the beginning of journey to
death which combines the discussion on the dying process (the separation of soul
and body) and the significance of prepared stuffs to secure the coming journey.
This first phase is conveyed mostly in rising meter and dominated with visual and
tactile imageries; (2) oblivion, a confusing stage to pass right after the death takes
one‟s life, and the message is emphasized through paradox and visual imageries
and conveyed in mixture of rising meter and falling meter in one line; and (3) new
life is symbolically depicted by dawn until the appearance of the sun and
conveyed in falling rhythm which closes the phases.
Keywords: Death, “The Ship of Death”, Ransom‟s New Criticism TheoryNIM. 09150078 FAHRURRAZI