ABSTRACT

Surmayadi, 2010 : The Love Meaning of Kahlil Gibran‟s

Poetries
and their Correlation to the Islamic Views

Supervisor I : DR. M. Yusuf, M. Ed
Supervisor II : Irfan Nofrianto, SS
This research analyzes the love meaning of Kahlil Gibran selected poems
and their correlation to the Islamic View. Poetry is a literary work which is a
spontaneity overflow of feelings that are come from the emotion and arranged
accurately and then encouraged the specific response through rhyme and specific
words. Meaning is the advice in those poetries in denotative and connotative
meaning.
This research aimed to analyze how the poet explores his ideas through a
literary work. For helping this research, the writer used some methods and
theories. Because the data is taken from literary works, so the writer used Sylvan
Barnet et al and supported by Rene Wellek and Austin Warren‟s Theory.
In this research, the writer used descriptive and qualitative method. Beside
that, in finding the meaning of poems, the writer took the theoretical framework,
of the definition and the meaning of poem, expressive theory, and biographical
approach in studying literature and the Islamic views about love.
Based on the research, the writer found the meaning of love based on the
poet‟s poems, they are in The Life of Love XVI, and love means sacrifice and
faithful. In poem Song of Love XXIV, love means a feeling of madly in love
caused by deep loving to beloved and in A lover,s Call XXVII, love means a deep
longing. Beside that the writer also found, love poems of Kahlil Gibran is an
overflow of feeling of the poet himself. The last, the writer also correlates about
the Islamic views about the meaning of love and verses which have correlation
with love.

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