Skripsi
Shakespeare\'s sonnet 116: understanding the beauty through its \"grammatical errors\" / Afifah Shafa Salsabil
Abstrak
Not having adequate capability to understand or even fear classic works (Hirvela amp Boyle 1988) due to the lacking exposure to classic works and failure to consider a piece of literary work as an object to be understood rather than just to be read has been an ironical yet common problem among English literature students especially those whose first language is not English. Departing from this personal concern this research suggests further comprehension to one of the most notable English poets rsquo work William Shakespeare rsquo s Sonnet 116 by doing a deeper observation in order to find the correlation of its written form the beauty it creates and the meaning. Despite the strict tradition in writing sonnets and the beauty within there are sentences whose meanings are not entirely clear mdash particularly for non-native speakers mdash for it has contravened some grammatical structures that have been considered uncompromising. This study aims to examine how Shakespeare in Sonnet 116 forms the poem rsquo s aesthetic using the formalist approach resulting in several grammatical performances such as word order shifting and its consequence to the rhyme and rhytm.