Volume 3, issue 2 of the Journal of Language and Pragmatics Studies includes an article by Silvia Putri Anjani and Radik Darmawan, "The figurative language: Metaphor and personification in the poetry of William Shakespeare and William Blake”:
The topic taken is about metaphor and personification in the poems of William Shakespeare and William Blake. The poems taken by the researchersare four titles namely ‘Sonnet 16’, Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare Thee to Summer's Day?’, “The Tyger”, and “London”. This research produces the same number of metaphors and personification, 11, with William Shakespeare's poems using the least metaphors and personification compared to William Blake's poems. So, in this research the author can provide a lot of new information to be used in activities or tasks carried out in education, to add information as a complement to previous journals.
Silvia Putri Anjani and Radik Darmawan are members of faculty at Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing Technocrat college, Indonesia.
"The figurative language: Metaphor and personification in the poetry of William Shakespeare and William Blake” can be downloaded from the Journal of Language and Pragmatics Studies (open access).