RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
    This chapter presents about the research methodology, which consists of research design, data, data collection and data analysis.
   
3. 1     Research design
    The purpose of this study is to describe the diction used in collection of poems written by Robert Lee Frost.  The research design of this study is descriptive method, which is designed to involve describing, recording, analyzing, and interpreting condition that exist (Best, in Herni Susanti, 2005: 29).
   
3. 2    Data
    The data of this research are taken from Robert Frost’s poems in Barnet, Berman and Burto (1993:537-547) and from http://en. wikipedia. org//wiki//frost’spoems. html.  The poems are selected randomly.  It is necessary to give the code number for all of the poems.  It is about 46 poems.  Then, those codes number are taken to select 20 samples of those poems.  Those selected poems are:


Stopping by Wood on a Snowy Evening
    Design


    October
·    The Telephone
·    The Oven Bird
·    The Silken Tent
·    Desert Place
·    Come In
·    Once by the Pacific
·    Fire and Ice
·    In Winter In the Woods Alone
·    Reluctant
·    The Gift Outright
·    Acquainted With the Night
·    The Pasture
·    The Road Not Taken
·    Bereft
·    The Draft Horse
·    Provide, Provide
·    The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
   
.3    Data Collection


1.    Reading and studying the Frost’s poems. 
2.    Finding the kinds of diction in the Frost’s poems.
3.    Finding the most dominant of diction in the Frost’s poems.
   
1    Step of the Data Analysis
The researcher collects and divides each word and sentences according to the kinds of diction, they are connotative diction, denotative diction, concrete diction, associative diction and imaginative diction.
2.    The researcher counts to find the most dominant of diction
   
The Rose Family
The rose is a rose
And was always a rose
But the theory now goes
That the apple’s a rose,
And the pear is, and so’s
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only know
What will next prove a rose?
You, of course, are a rose
But were always a rose

Stars
How pointlessly they congregate
O’er our tumultuous snow
This flows in shapes as tall as trees
When wintry winds do blow!
As if with keenness for our fate,
Our faltering few steps on
To white rest, and a place of rest
Invisible at down
And yet with neither love nor hate,
Those stars like some snow-white
Minerva’s snow-white marble eyes
Without the gift of sight
Winter evening

Evening seems
At first intense blue
Fades through paleness into black.
The farmhouse in the valley
Shines like a lost streetlight, cold
As a dingo howl at midnight
Fire And Ice

Some say the world will and in fire
Some say in Ice
From what I have tested of desire
I hold with those who favor fire
But if it had to parish twice, I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction Ice
Is also great
And would suffice
Sweet May

Sweetest May, let love inspire here
Take a hart, which he desires thee
As thy constant slave regard it
For its faith and truth reward it

Proof o’ shot to beat or money
Not the wealthy, but the bonnie
Not high-born, but noble-minded
In love’s silken band can bind it!