DREAM AND LOVE IN EDGAR ALLAN POE’S POEMS - A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM AND ANNABEL LEE - Volume 2 Issue 1 June 2022

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This paper studies Edgar Allan Poe’s poems A Dream within a Dream and Annabel Lee through a stylistic perspective, focusing on how linguistic deviation and style markers shape aesthetic emotion. The analysis treats phonological and lexical choices, along with other linguistic levels, as media for conveying meanings about dreaming, love, desperation, and hope. Data are collected from both poems and examined using a qualitative descriptive approach. Findings indicate that linguistic deviations function as an instrument to express the aesthetic emotions intended by the author.

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Abstract

Introduction

Poems’ Themes and Stylistic Approach

The Structure of the Poems

A Dream within a Dream

Annabel Lee (结构分析待续)

Volume 2 Issue 1 June 2022 E-ISSN 2797-8117 DREAM AND LOVE IN EDGAR ALLAN POE’S POEMS: A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM AND ANNABEL LEE Nur Israfyan Sofian1, Irianto Ibrahim3 1 Language and Literatue Department, Faculty of Humanities, Halu Oleo University 2 Department of Indonesian Language and Literature, Faculty of Teaching Training and Education, Halu Oleo University, Kendari, Indonesia Corresponding Author: [email:](email: nurisrafyan.sofian@uho.ac.id)[ ](email: nurisrafyan.sofian@uho.ac.id)[nurisrafyan.sofian@uho.ac.id](email: nurisrafyan.sofian@uho.ac.id) Abstract This paper studies Edgar Allan Poe's two poems; A Dream within a Dream and Annabel Lee, from a stylistic perspective. These two poems describe the desperation and hope to stay in love while they applied linguistic deviation as the medium to raise the aesthetical emotion. The aesthetical emotion within these two poems came after the linguistic level and style markers used within the poems. Therefore, this paper intended to uncover the meaning of those two poems from linguistic deviation and style markers used from the stylistic perspective. The data for this paper were collected from both poems and analysed with the qualitative description approach. This paper found that the linguistic deviation in these poems can express the aesthetic emotion the author intended to convey about the dream to love. Key words: Dream, Edgar Allam Poe, Love, Poem, Stylistic INTRODUCTION This paper intended to study the two poems of Edgar Allan Poe: A Dream Within a Dream and Annabel Lee. Both poems have different main ideas. The first poem, A Dream within A Dream, shows the speaker's suffering, who lost hope. While the second, Annabel Lee is a poem full of tenderness about feeling in love between aman and his woman while they have been separated by death. Those themes look opposite, despite both poems try to promote dream to love since they feel desperate for love but stay in love also for love. The presence of the both words drives the reader to uncover the possible meaning from the poems. It is meant to elaborate what the author intended to convey, after demonstrating keywords after the language deviation within the poems. To explain the assumption, this research intended to track the meaning of the two poems from the deviation applied as the style of an author. Stylistic features are regarded as the linguistic description of style markers to give the analysis and elaborate the literary texts to show the linguistic deviation within the literary text (Ching, [et.al](et.al)., 1980, p. 285). The deviation is commonly different from an author to the other authors. The different becomes the special character of an author in writing called style. The style emerged as the effort of each author in using words to tell stories (Mansoor and Salman, 2020, p. 17) as well as to raise the aesthetic aspect of the work and. In every work, as found in poems, the style could be the good combination of exploitation and exploration to present the aesthetic aspect of the work used by the author. The exploitation is the form of a language deviation to raise the aesthetic aspect and as the highlight to explore the possible meaning. Edgar Allan Poe is one of the great American poets. His popularity came after his outstanding work composing intense and tender poems. As seen in Poe’s poems, intense poems always raised more aesthetic and imperative feelings that could take the reader to do in-depth research to uncover the meaning and gain a new emotional experience. The emotive experience will be elaborated from style markers as Verma said that consisted of phonology, graphology, semantic and lexical level of the language. Those levels of linguistic in these poems were deviated to raise the emotive feelings and aesthetic values, then called as style markers (Leech, 1991) . The presence of style markers in uncovering the meaning of poems helps the readers to give the analysis of the literary

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What is the research focus on Edgar Allan Poe’s poems in this paper?

The paper examines A Dream within a Dream and Annabel Lee from a stylistic perspective, emphasizing how linguistic deviation and style markers create aesthetic emotion.

How does the paper analyze meaning in the two poems?

Meaning is traced through the stylistic features and deviations at linguistic levels, using a qualitative descriptive approach based on textual data from both poems.

What contrast in themes does the introduction describe between the two poems?

A Dream within a Dream presents the speaker’s suffering and loss of hope, while Annabel Lee emphasizes tenderness and love that persists despite separation by death.

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