AN ANALYSIS OF MORAL VALUES FOUND IN ROBERT FROST S SELECTED POEMS I Wayan Rengkuh Febri Subrata, Kadek Sonia Piscayanti, S. Pd, M. Pd., G. A. P. Suprianti, S.Pd., M. Pd. Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Singaraja, Indonesia e-mail: {greenice867@gmail.com, sonia_pisca@yahoo.com, gapsuprianti@gmail.com}@undiksha.ac.id Abstrak Penelitian ini telah dituliskan untuk menganalisa nilai nilai moral dari keenam puisi terpilih diantaranya: A Patch Of Old Snow, Dust Of Snow, A Question, Devotion, Nothing Gold Can Stay, dan The Sound Of The Trees. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode library research yang di dukung oleh sumber dari internet. Nilai Moral dari pembiasaan manusia di antara baik dan buruk. Yang pertama adalah adalah A Patch Of Old Snow yang mempunyai nilai moral tentang bagaimana menjaga kebaikan dan cinta untuk kedamaian dan keharmonisan. Puisi kedua adalah Dust Of Snow yang mempunyai nilai moral yang melarang seseorang untuk membunuh dirinya sendiri. Bunuh diri adalah sebagian dari pintu masuk neraka atau jalan sesat dari pilihan manusia pada zaman sekarang. Puisi ketiga adalah A Question yang mempunyai nilai moral untuk mencegah diri sendiri dari keegoisan. Keegoisan dapat menciptakan kemiskinan dan kurangnya toleransi. Puisi keempat adalah Devotion yang mempunyai nilai moral tentang tiada henti perjuangan manusia dalam mengejar kesuksesan dalam perjalanan hidup. Puisi kelima adalah Nothing Gold Can Stay yang mempunyai nilai moral tentang kecantikan yang tidak bisa bertahan lama. Puisi keeenam, The Sound Of The Trees yang mempunyai nilai moral tentang konsistensi bertahan pada tanah kelahiran karena keluarga dan pekerjaan. Kata kunci: A Patch Of Old Snow, A Question, Nothing Gold Can Stay, The Sound Of The Trees, Values. Moral Abstract This research that has been written in for analyzing that moral values from the six selected poems namely: A Patch Of Old Snow, Dust Of Snow, A Question, Devotion, Nothing Gold Can Stay, and The Sound Of The Trees. This research used the library research method with supporting data from the internet. The Moral Values from the human behavior in good and bad. The first is A Patch Of Old Snow has a moral value to keep the kindness and love for peace and harmony. The second poem is Dust Of Snow that has a moral value of the forbidden way of the human action for killed himself. Killed himself as a part of the hell entrance or a wrong way of human choice in the new era. The third poem is A Question that has a moral value for preventing ourself for the selfishness. Selfishness creates the poverty and and less of humility. The fourth poem is Devotion that has a moral value of unstoppable willpower of the human being for get the success point in their entire life. The fifth poem is Nothing Gold Can Stay that has a moral value of the beauty cannot stay in the long time. The sixth poem, The Sound Of The Trees has a moral value of the human consistency in staying in homeland because of the family and jobs. Key words: A Patch Of Old Snow, A Question, Nothing Gold Can Stay, The Sound Of The Trees, Moral Values.
INTRODUCTION Poetry as the expression to use for interpret all the data as the kind of artworks in the new era as the subject matter to analyze. (Albers, 2017). The main framework of all poetry works already spreading in all area in this world. With the unique styles and frameworks that are specialized for all writers with searching all the subject matters in the wide scope of all fragments in this world and their creatures. Poetry as the global language concept that has infinity sources for gaining the artworks especially in the education world. The teacher should be proud with this situation, because the poetry has a lot of material with passion as the product of single mind and heart (Haddad, 2017). In order for transferring the motion of the poetry sense, the poetry writer must knowing what is the clear concept of the poetry because, the contents of all the poetry are very important and has a lot of meaning points. The writer chose Sir Robert Frost as the main part of the research to find the suitable experts in poetry. Sjr Robert Frost has a lot of experience in writing poetry. Robert Frost as a teacher and lecturer in Darmouth University and University of Michigan. Robert Frost as American hero that was implemented the literature in full of his entire life. He has a lot winning a Pulitzer prize in the world rank. There are six selected poems by Robert Frost namely: A Patch Of Old Snow (1920), Dust Of Snow (1920), A Question (1942), Devotion (1928), Nothing Gold Can Stay (1923), and The Sound Of The Trees (1916). All the poems are in one theme as nature elements background of sense. The writer choose the six selected poems as the focus scope of this research. And then what is the major problems of this research as the point of this analysis. It is what are the moral values found from the six selected poems. The writer give the full effort about how to find clearly, the moral values of six selected poems. And the writer has a big curiousity to knowing the moral values that found in Robert Frost s selected poems. As the contribution of this research, the writer needs the deep meaning of the six selected poems that was created by famous poet in this world that comes from United States Of America. The natural environment can boost effectively for conducting the research and observation that was related with nature elements. The writer try absorbs the breath of harmony in the fresh air from the beach and the botanical garden. The research can be optimize and very great in gain the inspiration and imagination especially for the poetry writers in all part of the world. This research concern about the point perspective of significance of the analysis that will make the real contribution for others. Since the poetry as the media of all perspective creatures from the world. And the world must bringing all the people inspiration for gaining a better life. Since poetry has a lot of benefits for all the readers that can transmit the positive vibration for all the people that make the world more comfort and full of energy. At the first the writer focus on the significance of this research for the teacher.. The teacher brings the soft skills for the student. Soft skills that make the students not roughly to adapt in this world situation. The teacher have a big responsible for the students to control all the brain wave to make more steady and discipline. The teacher in the classroom should bring the creative idea of all the materials that focuses on the ability of all the students. Poetry as the greatest media for transmit the creative thinking that was created by the teacher. The second focus of this significance of the study is for the students in English Education Department that has been
developed by the curiousity and inner strength in literature for gaining the passion. Since literature that has been developed in this Department for engaging the students in literature artworks that correlated with English language education and obtaining skills in order to interpret the writing skills for advanced level and understanding in the deep ways. The students of English Education Department are specialized with English language skills that must proffesionalized by themselves. In order to more advanced that needs qualified by mastering the poetry as the creative frameworks for dedicating the intelligence of language in the next future. The students should prepare the rage for collecting all the branch of literature for mastering the English language skills. The preparation should be done when all the students always steady and ready for the battle for accomplishing their assignment. The third of the significance of this study is dedicated for the researchers in all whole the world. The researchers must taking order the wide scope by their subject matter of their own research. In one way they catch the sample of Sir Robert Frost poetry that can be handled in several area that was developed by nature elements. That can be a great expectations when the researchers conducted the research that has been themed on nature elements covered by nature elements. METHODS For conducting in this research the writer choose the library research method that was supported by Hennepin County Library website. The library research method has a lot of benefits for the writer for conducting the research. There are five major components of beneficial from library research databases that make the writer easier for gathering the information. In this form of library research, the writer supported by using the primary sources and secondary sources. A primary sources provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object, person, or work of art. The first hand action, include the first desire, what the early senses of the writer for knowing or absorbs the information of the data. The major senses that was used optimally are the eye and the intuition. The eye use for firstly observation what is the naturally perspective that the objects wants to show it in reliable and authenticity. The secondary sources describe, discuss, interpret, comment upon, analyze, evaluate, summarize, and process of primary sources. The second phase of action that was conducted by the researcher always using the inward visions. How the intelligence of the writer can organize the data and that will use the inward intuition for set the data in steady and ready for publish. In this research, the data in process of collecting all relevant sources based from six selected poems from Robert Frost. The titles of the poems are A Patch Of Old Snow, Dust Of Snow, A Question, Devotion, Nothing Gold Can Stay, and The Sound Of The Trees. In the process of collecting data there are some steps should be done they are collecting all relevant information from the internet source, writing down the information related to the data that analyzed, rereading them and trying to listen the poetry in the steady way, and the last rechecking all of the data to avoid falsity. The first one, in the phase of collecting the information from the internet source, the writer needs a lots of experts in poetry. The poem hunter website, the poetry blog spot, and the listed of the experts that already have experience in writing poetry and write the summarize of that poetry. And also from the leader or elder that creates poetry in the past years from American Sir Robert Frost.
The second, the writer needs writing down the information related in to the data or the subject that was analyzed. That needs the inner skills of the linguistics intelligence of the writer. In this section the writer compares all the data that was absorbed in the internet source for forbid the falsity and try to manage what is right and what is wrong in conducted the process. The filterization is important when the subject matter data were gathered in the whole documents. The writer always thinking in the deep ways about how to find the find cut of the data sources that can be organize in the good way. In the third way, the writer try to rereading them all with the general intuition and connected with the poem essence and listen the videos and listening by own poetry interpretation that was express by ownself. In the reading section, the writer try to obsess in each words and find what is the meaning in every single word that was specialized to attract the reader to read and feels satisfied of the enjoyable reading session. In the last way, the writer try rechecking all the progress to prevent the falsity. In this phase, that was so important because the correct way needed for this research. All the poetry contains a lot of meanings that very beneficial for the readers. So, if the poetry writers or poetry researcher do the mistake the reders can accept the wrong perception from the poetry. So there is no beautiful essence of that progress. Rechecking, in the poetry words that must the high logic thinking and improved by the linguistic intelligence skills. The adaptation of receive the poetry lines must suitable from the analysis system on the brain of the poetry writer. In all phase of collecting the data the writer must put the quality fields as the top reason for better get in research points. Such as natural places, and the place surrounded with the nature. It is must be obeyed because that was correlated with theme in all selected poems from Sir Robert Frost. In launch the progress of observation the writer supported by the people around the places that was get the permission for renting the places that such in the comfort zones that already bringing by the people. One sample places is in the Eka Karya Botanical Garden that was located in Tabanan regency. All the workers in there give the best care for all the researchers that wants and willing to do research in the beautiful garden in Bali province.the second fields is in the Keramas beach that was bringing the genuine nature essence. In order for collecting the data, Indah (2010) states that, in this analysis, there are some steps in order to make this analysis systematic and easier. The writer has been supported by Reni Indah that comes from Medan that has been conducted the same research with the writer. Reni Indah conducted the research that has been specified in poetry analysis. Reni Indah Permata Sari comes from University of Sumatera Utara specified from faculty of letters in Medan area. There are several technique of analyzing data based from Indah statements that already used by the writer in efficiently for get the accuracy in the results. Selecting six selected poems of Robert Frost that want to analyze, reading six poems for several times, comprehending six selected poems, analyzing six selected poems, studying the words or diction that used in the poems, and drawing conclusion of the analysis. The first one the writer focuses on the selecting six selected poems of Robert Frost that want to analyze. The six selected poems are themed in one concept. The concept is nature elements. The writer choose the nature elements because the interested views from the writer for the nature. Nature as the area that was very close with the human
being, that can be an easier subject matter to analyze especially for poetry hunter. Nature elements as the unique concept by the poetry hunter because to create the private imagination based from the nature characteristics. Nature elements has a wide scope that generally contains a lot of interested subject matter that wants to listed as the new masterpiece artworks of poetry. The second one, the writer do the reading section in the deep ways in every line of each one selected poems. In this sections, the writer needs the calm situation and the comfort zone for read and read in every words and line for gaining reliable understanding what is meaning and what is the general concept of that poetry. The reading section, while the writer do the same action in the read enjoyable time, the obsession of the poetry is needed. The contribution of obsession in the focus and accuracy in the poetry is depends on the linguistic intelligence of the poetry writer. The third phase of the process is comprehending the six selected poems. In comprehending process, the writer needs the unique concept of the soft essence in every line of the poetry. For example the title of the poetry is Dust Of Snow, the writer needs for search the unique visions of the winter season. In one sample of effort from the writer is in listening the music that has been downloaded on youtube video that has the theme in winter season. That must be ordered in getting the visions because in the real phenomenon the writer did not get the winter season essence because in this country has been touched by dry seasons and rainy seasons. The atmosphere must be conducted in authenticity for reliable results that was focuses on honesty on the researcher. The fourth phase in this research is the analyzing the data of the six selected poems. The writer already use the technique of analyzing data from the internet source in the previous explanations. Analyzing the data is always uses the inward visions and linguistics intelligence for gaining the soft results. The fifth phase on this research is studying the words or diction that used in the poems. Oxford dictionaries online as the major media for used the true meanings of the translations the English language to the Indonesian language. The oxford dictionaries online is the helpful soft media, because in every English words can be translated in the official way. The last phase is drawing the conclusion in every poetry that has been analyzed by the writer. In every each poetry the writer must search what is the sweet crops of the poetry that can finally, can transmitted in to the readers based on the accuracy results. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS In the first results of the analysis of the first data. The first data as the first poem that was A Patch Of Old Snow. The poem of the Robert Frost entitled A Patch Of Old Snow was created by the true phenomenon of Robert Frost. He found the old newspaper in the hidden path of the forest. He saw the old newspaper and compares with the patch of old snow. Robert Frost tried to explain about the hidden meaning about the printed newspaper and the patch of old snow, based on his vision. Printed newspaper similar like our life with all the notes and action of life. The patch of old snow as the comparison with the printed newspaper as the object with the similar meaning. Frost seen the patch of old snow with the all the whitenmess of snow and dirty fragments of the dust and a few mud that covering the snow. The blow away-paper means the newspaper that wet by the rain. The newspaper and the patch of old snow has
been guessed by Robert Frost, for the comparison and the meaning of the whiteness. The speckled means the dirt of the snow. Snow as the symbolism of the beauty of the winter season. The narrator saw the snow has been covered by the grime. The small print of the dirt is overspreading the snow. The moral values of this poem is no moment a day exist permanently. This poem describes about the idea of transient existence of things in our lives, for the time brings changes. The second moral values of this poem is we must keep our whitenesses in our life. Similar like the white of snow that has imaginary vision of our soul that must keep the purely in quality of good. Elfira (2002), states that the moral values of her research entitled The Road Not Taken is the people must have a critical thinking before selecting their decisions. Indah (2010) states that the moral values of her research entitled Fire and Ice is the two major difference of emotion of human being. Vengeance and Love. In the second analysis of the Robert Frost poem is Dust Of Snow. Sir Robert Frost tried to explain the poetry in simple way about the surrender. The way a crow in the first stanza tells about the black way and death. Crow is associated with ungood and horror vision. Crow is the bird that eats the flesh and always available in graveyard. Robert Frost tried to give essence of the winter nights with all the dust of snow in the hemlock tree. Hemlock tree has been choosen because that was associated by poison and toxicity. Robert Frost try to give the explanation about the man that he think for getting save and keep their regret of life for killed himself. He thought for cleaning his karma in the way of suicide. The moral value of the poem is we must try to open to other people. We cannot live without helps by each other. Alone is not the best way to conduct our entire life. The second moral value from this poem is we must try to make our life meaningful. Life must have a purpose and finally ending with happiness. In the third poem of Robert Frost that was entitled A Question. The poem is looks like a mini paragraph of story. This poem are very special and genuine from the separated ways of Sir Robert Frost. In the first line, Robert Frost try to explain about the effort of the man with the dangerous situation. From the mess mind, he try to find the miracle with the special conversation with Gods in the sky. In the second lines, Robert Frost try to give explanation about the power of earth. Mother Earth as the nature in this planet earth as the best guidance by the prayer. In the final lines, Sir Robert Frost try to give the moral values about the pity man that always force in their effort by selfishness. He just try and ask for the sky with his body in the scars. He doesn t know, he always force in selfishness and he has no family and try to speak with ownself with the greatest ego. Selfishness creates misery and weaknesses. In the fourth poem of Robert Frost that was analyzed by the writer entitled Devotion. This poetry means the unstoppable force of the human being for surviving in life on this planet. According to Oxford dictionary, devotion means loyalty, faithfulness, fidelity, constancy,and commitment. The heart can think of no devotion, means the speaker feels no hope and no regret. The speaker just walk away through life with no plan. The heart as the feels of the human being reflects the soul of passion in life. So from the counting and endless repetition means the indomitable willpower has never stopped working. Unstoppable and never surrender.
In the fifth poem Robert Frost use the nature elements of flowers and leaves. Nature as the implementation of the cycle of life that similar like flowers. The title is Nothing Gold Can Stay. Robert Frost try to explain the first color of the nature is gold. Gold as the color in the first birth and then changes in to the green from the beginning of the spring season. The next explanation Robert Frost try to give the taste of the Garden of Eden when the Adam and Eve met. The leaf subsides to leaf means in every single moment as the changing time when the people do their activity with left their past memories. Nothing Gold Can Stay. No beauty and perfectness can exist for a long time. In the last poem that was analyzed, entitled The Sound Of The Trees explains about the gestures of the trees that has been shaken by the great wind. Frost has the imagination for it as the implementation of the figure of the human behavior. The first four lines of the poem explain about the narrator wondering to hold the swaying tree. The sounds of the tree make the creator think curiousity of the unique movement that comes from it. The second discussion of the poem that explain about the magical sounds that the narrator use as the inspiration for creating results of the meaning point of this poem. Frost examines the unique sounds that comes from listening air from the trees. In the next lines of the poem explains about the consistency of the trees with their roots to stay. The swaying tree is so strong. It absorbs the energy from the mother earth for staying in one position. In the last lines of the poem the writer try to explain about the final ending of the person when they get old and get broken system of their health. The white clouds make the strong power as it always blows by freezing wind and make the trees dead. The purpose of this discussion of the poem are a lots of important things, especially for the readers that can the writers brings the implication directly, so from this purpose oif the discussion the readers feels their ownself launch the progress of the development in the process of the learning. In the first, the exploration of the poem the writer express the beautiful sense for the readers. The beautiful sense as the aesthetics point of view can be described in the form of idea, message, ethics, and moral values that automatically connected with the readers. In the soft ideas from ethics and moral values, the poetry writer transmit through the words. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION In this conclusion and suggestion, the writer describe about the moral value of the six selected poems and what are the several suggestion and expectation in the next future. The writer hoped that this research can affected in the genuine way for expecting the great expectation of the human life. We must respects with the intelligence mind and wisdom of all the human being that already to control their mind for searching the harmony and less of violence in the state of mind. The writer expects the appreciation for the linguistics intelligence that can bring all the positive vibration for all the civilization in all parts of the worlds that can changing the mindsets and the human perception for creating the highest good of atmosphere. The writer needs the respected feelings for all the researchers in the world as the contribution for their effort in sacrificing their time and money for finding the fine cut or the fine diamond cut that symbolized as the greater mind for brainwashing all the wrong mindsets in to the right mindsets. This contribution of all the conclusions can make all the readers increase their feelings for love, and care with somebody for giving a helping hands.
In the moral values from the first poem A Patch Of Old Snow is the effort for us to try to keep the whitenesses of our life. Kindness and love as the best way to keep peace and harmony. Whitenesses as the symbolism of purely good, the human must taking order in their action for not roughly, not to hurt somebody. In all concept of application of action, speaking, anmd thinking must followed the right way. Moral values from the second poem Dust Of Snow is the forbidden way for killing himself. We should not keep our way into the darkness. Darkness is not the way of the human being entrance for solve all the problems in this new modern era. The horror vision always gathered by the human being because the have lack of point control by ownself. This is affected by lack of wisdow and less of education in every human brain. Moral values from the third poem A Question is the concern of the ego from the human being as the point control for not thinking about the selfishness. Selfishness creates the poverty and lack of the social interaction. Lack of social interaction that make our tragedy and our problems cannot be solved in the cleasn way or lack of wisdom. If we can share our problems with each other we can know what is other experience of the human being that already faced the problems firstly and what is must do it and don t do it. Moral values of the fourth poem, Devotion, is the unstoppable willpower that must keep it to maintain the progress to reach the success. The indomitable willpower always needed like the repetition of the wave movement on the sea. The unstoppable with the purely right spirit must winning the competition of life. Moral values of the fifth poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay is the beauty cannot stay for a long time. No perfectness stay in a permanent way. The luxurious in here cannot existing in our world for divine way. The weather in this world can changing all the form of all creatures in this world. Moral values from the sixth poem, The Sound Of The Trees, is the consistency for staying at our homeland because the job and the family. The people tried for thinking about the consideration when the getting old and old. The lack of stamina and lack of capacity of concentration. For the general suggestion the writer put in to two branch of the suggestion. The first one, the writer expects that the readers are more interested in literature, especially in understanding poetry. The interesting passion is important top boost the willpower of the human being. Since the human has an ego for reach their success, and has a full desire to find real enjoyable and satisfaction of life. The worldly joy, can make the human feels happy with their goal based on their effort in their entire life. In the second phase the writer expects from this research can affect the character education for the students in schools and University based from the learning point from the ethics and moral values. Since the character education as the major concept of the new development in this new era, the implementation of ethics and moral values must be thought in everywhere, and in all condition of time. By the simple practice of thought of the concept of ethics and morality the students can receive the higher good, and can imitate their action for several repetition that can be a permanent behavior. REFERENCES Albers, P. Haste, J.C., & Holbrook, T. (2017). Poetic distillation artistic transcription analysis in autoethnographic literacy research. Educational Linguistics, Reflections on qualitative research in language and literacy education (pp. 171-188). Springer. Haddad, E., A. (2017). Orientalist poetics. Routledge.
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