poetry kelompok 2

Fajriatul Mafturoh (20111111006)

Laila Eka Rahmawati (20131111016)

An Analysis of Twas like a Maelstrom,with a notch by Emily Dickinson

by using moral issues

            Poetry is one of part study of literature. Poetry is a labor of literature that very interesting because poetry is the form expression of feelings and emotions based on the writer. The writer of poem that very famous is Emily Dickinson. She is an American poet, she was born in Massachusetts on December10 in 1830 especially at the Amherst Homestead. She composed about 1800 poem. One of the famous poem by Emily Dickinson is “ Twas like a Maelstrom,with a notch”. In this essay, the writer try to find the moral issues that includes in that poem.

            According to Chaplin (2006), the suitable moral with rules that organize the customary law in social or custom or behavior. Wantah (1990) said that moral is politeness, habit, custom, and manner of behavior that become a habit for the people in each culture. Based on the statement above, the writer can conclude that the moral issue is the situation and rules that happen in social life. It also includes the custom, religion, and behavior of each people in social life. The moral issue does not have the maker or writer, but it happen naturally in social life of people. The agreement of the people can be make the rules of moral issue in each place. As we can see the moral issue in Emily Dickinson poem, “ Twas like a maelstrom, with a nortch”.

            In “ Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch”, Emily Dickinson use the religion issues to describe the situation of the human in that time and describe the religious of the people. In nineteenth century, during World War I especially in America had already gave the citizen about the freedom of their religion. In this poem, Emily Dickinson tried to describe the situation in that time. Emily Dickinson, believed that Jesus as her religion and her God. The writer of this essay can find a lot of moral issues in this poem.

            First, the word “Goblin” in three stanza. On the first stanza above, Emily Dickinson tries to describe the experience as a human with the maelstrom. Then, she describes another stanza like the nightmare. She also describe the goblin that symbol of another world that spy on human life. She describe that the goblin bring the gauge, the representation of the time of human life. She describes a warning for people about their life. The things that what they do in their life when the time is coming.

            Second, the word “ God” in four stanza. In this section, she describes that only the God that can help people to appear all of the disturbing of the problem. When the people remember about to the God, the will find solve of their problem. In this stanza, she give the directive to remember to the God when you find the problem.

            Third, the word “ fiend” in four stanza. It also describe that after we remember the God, we conscious that the devil will disturb people life, but people must be brave to oppose it. To rebottles ourselves of the devil. Make sure that we always remember the God.

            Fourth, the word “ dead” and “perish” in five and six stanza. She describes the die after life of people. It also make the fear of the people to meet the day of the die because she describe the reprieve and sadness of the die that all of people will to experience the death.

            To conclude, the moral issues are about the ways people to understand the religion, culture, and rules in social life. The poem of Emily Dickinson “Twas like a Maelstrom,with a notch” is the one example which show the moral issues. It shows a lot of moral issue in several stanza like the word “God”,etc. The writer think that the poem is the interesting poem to analyzed it by using moral issues.