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This chapter presents the conclusions drawn from the research on Emily Dickinson's unique poetic style, focusing on her extensive use of metaphor. The findings reveal that five types of metaphor - ontological, structural, visual, extend, and active - are predominantly used in her poems. Students and researchers are encouraged to expand their knowledge by exploring additional sources on poem theory and semantic analysis.
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This part is the last chapter of this research. It contains the conclusionand suggestion based on the research finding in the previous chapter. The conclusion presents the summary of answer to ward the two research problems formulated in this study.
5.1 Conclusion
Emily Dickinson is one of the greatest American poets. Her unique style of writing has become iconic in the poetry world. No one can quite capture her ability to write. Emily Dickinson in her poem often used metaphor because, through the metaphor she was able to express the meaning of the poem and made the poem more interesting and attractive to read, such as “Hope is the thing with feather” and “Because I could not stop for a death”.
In the poem “Hope is the thing with feathers” Emily Dickinson used metaphor to express the meaning of what is “Hope” itself by comparing hope and the bird. This poem told the story of what is the role of hope in person‟s life. In the other poem as, “Because I could not stop for a death” Emily Dickinson used metaphor to figure out the story of how the death came to her and took her through the journey till the eternity.
Based on the namely findingsfrom seven types metaphor the writer only found five types of metaphor in Emily Dickinson poems such us, 40% of
ontological metaphor, 20% structural metaphor, 20% visual metaphor, 10% extend metaphor and 10% active metaphor, 0% oriental metaphor, 0% complex metaphor. So base on the result above, ontological metaphor is the domain types of metaphor found in the poem of Emily Dickinson
5.2 Suggestions
For the students who are interested indevelopment of poem, it is expected to improve and to expand their knowledge about the poem. It is better if they look for another source about poem theory especially the theory concerning the types of metaphor in poem. For other researchers, it is suggested that they have to scrutinize more about the semantic analysis in the poem. It is because the poem is literally works which rich of meaning that is interesting to analyze.