THE ANALYSIS OF POETRY

WRITTEN BY TIKA WAHYU FITRIANI

OVER THE DESTINY

BY
YUNIARTI AYUNINGTYAS
NPM. 11020230011

KADIRI ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF KEDIRI

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
2014

OVER THE DESTINY

Just by looking at your face appear on my screen,

I had nothing more to wish for
You only left a goodbye behind
You came to me like a dream,
Back then,
All the countless nights when I met you
I think of you..
Please appear before me over the destiny
Come back to me,
The fool who couldnt tell you about my longing
Come back to me,
Like a warm spring
So, I can fill myself with you, who might get forgotten
And after I let you go,
I spent countless nights in tears
Im just thankful that I met you in my life

THE ANALYSIS OF POETRY WRITTEN BY TIKA WAHYU FITRIANI

BY THE TITLE OVER THE DESTINY
ANALYZED BY YUNIARTI AYUNINGTYAS

This poem with entitled Over the destiny can be analyzed by some
aspects, those are; title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shift, title,
theme. It will be discussed one by one.
A. Title
A title is one important thing in a poem. We can speculate on the
title of the poem. Tika give Over the destiny as her title. From this title
we can speculate that the contents of this poem tells about a relationship
with someone that have ever been experienced by the author.
B. Paraphrase
A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to
clarify meaning. This poem has four stanzas. The paraphrase of each
stanza as follows:
a) Stanza 1 (4 lines)
Just by looking at your face appear on my screen,
I had nothing more to wish for
You only left a goodbye behind
You came to me like a dream,
(she felt that the character of this poem is like she remember about
someone in the past)

b) Stanza 2 ( 4 lines )
Back then,

All the countless nights when I met you

I think of you..
Please appear before me over the destiny
(she always think about him, although it was long time ago and she
want to meet him again)
c) Stanza 3 ( 4 lines )
Come back to me,
The fool who couldnt tell you about my longing
Come back to me,
Like a warm spring
(she felt that she really missing him, but she couldnt tell him. She like
a fool. She hope that he comeback to her)
d) Stanza 4 (4 lines)
So, I can fill myself with you, who might get forgotten
And after I let you go,
I spent countless nights in tears
Im just thankful that I met you in my life
(finally she let him to go from her life, but she spent all day all night
with regret feeling. She just so happy that she ever meet him)

C. Conotation
Connotation is an implied meaning that is associated with a word in
addition to its literal meaning. This association can be cultural or
emotional. Connotation has some aspects, such as; Imagery, figures of
speech (simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism, etc), diction, point
of view, and sound devices (alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, and

rhyme). Not all of those aspects appear in this poem. The connotation
analysis of this poem as follows:
1. Figure of Speech
A figure of speech is figurative language in the form of a
single word or phrase. It can be a special repetition, arrangement or
omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a
specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words.
There are mainly five figures of
speech: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, symbolism.
The figure of speech in this poem is:
- personification ;A figure of speech that gives human
qualities to animal, objects or idea.
Just by looking at face appear on my screen,
I had nothing more to wish for
You only left a goodbye behind
You came to me like a dream
(words dream means that he came to her just like fantasy,
and not for a long time)
2. Point Of View
Point of view is the angle of vision from which a story or a poetry
is narrated. In prose and poetry, fiction or non-fiction, someone is
always between the reader and the events inside the writing. This
"someone" is the author (as narrator), or the characters that the
author creates
The point of view in this poetry are I (my) and you (your)
Just by looking at your face appear on my screen,
I had nothing more to wish for
You only left a goodbye behind
You came to me like a dream,
Back then,

All the countless nights when I met you

I think of you..
Please appear before me over the destiny
Come back to me,
The fool who couldnt tell you about my longing
Come back to me,
Like a warm spring
So, I can fill myself with you, who might get
forgotten
And after I let you go,
I spent countless nights in tears
Im just thankful that I met you in my life
3. sound devices (alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, and
rhyme)
Sometimes called sound devices, these include onomatopoeia,
alliteration, assonance, consonance, euphony, resonance, and
others.This poem has sound devives;
a)

alliteration
the repetition of the initial sounds (usually consonants) of
stressed syllables in neighboring words or at short intervals
within a line or passage, usually at word beginnings. The
black bold words are alliteration.
Just by looking at your face appear on my screen,
I had nothing more to wish for
You only left a goodbye behind
You came to me like a dream,
Back then,

All the countless nights when I met you

I think of you..
Please appear before me over the destiny
Come back to me,
The fool who couldnt tell you about my longing
Come back to me,
Like a warm spring
So, I can fill myself with you, who might get
forgotten
And after I let you go,
I spent countless nights in tears
Im just thankful that I met you in my life
b) rhythm
Rhythm is a literary device which demonstrates the long
and short patterns through stressed and unstressed
syllables particularly in verse form. This poetry uses a
free verse rhytm because it is written without a regular
rhyme, rhytm and form. It sounds natural, just like
everyday conversation.
D. Attitude
A poem's tone is the attitude that its style implies. Tone is the poet's
or personal's attitude in style or expression toward the subject, e.g.,
loving, contemplative, bitter, didactic, fanciful, solemn, etc. Tone can
also refer to the overall mood of the poem itself, in the sense of a
pervading atmosphere intended to influence the readers' emotional
response and foster expectations of the conclusion. This the attitude that
is used by the author.

So, I can fill myself with you, who might get forgotten
And after I let you go,
I spent countless nights in tears
Im just thankful that I met you in my life
(full of sadness)

E. Shift
Rarely does a poem begin and end the poetic experience in the same place.
As is true of most us, the poet's understanding of an experience is a
gradual realization, and the poem is a reflection of that understanding or
insight. Watch for the following keys to shifts:
key words, (but, yet, however, although)
punctuation (dashes, periods, colons, ellipsis)
stanza divisions
changes in line or stanza length or both
irony
changes in sound that may indicate changes in meaning
changes in diction
The shifts of this poem are:
So, I can fill myself with you, who might get forgotten
And after I let you go,
I spent countless nights in tears
Im just thankful that I met you in my life
F. Title
Look at the title again. Have your original ideas about the poem changed?
How? What do you think the title means now?
The analysis of the title is:
I think the title Over the destiny represents a relationship between the
author and her couple in the past. But, she couldnt forget him, she always

think of him and she want to him to comeback to her. Title match the
content of the poem.
G. Theme
Theme of a poem may be stated explicitly, but more often it is implicit,
and must be determined by a close reading. First, determine the subject of
the poem, that is, what the poem is explicitly talking about. Next, ask
yourself why the poet chose this subject for the poem, and what larger
ideas or issues the poet is talking about through this subject. Common
themes include love, death, loss, the importance of self-knowledge, the
contrast between ideals and reality and the dangers of power, among many
others.
The analysis of theme in this poem is:
The theme of the poem appears to say to make the right decisions so not
regret being later.