PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AS REFLECTED IN MAYA ANGELOU’S STILL I RISE AND CAGED BIRD POEMS A SARJANA PENDIDIKAN THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements to Obtain the Sarjana Pendidikan Degree in English Language Education By Cyrillia Prima Arthami Student Number: 131214168 ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS EDUCATION FACULTY OF TEACHERS TRAINING AND EDUCATION SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2017 i PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI iii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Matthew 19:26 “But Jesus looked at them and said to them, „With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.‟” This Thesis is dedicated to: My beloved Parents and Myself iv PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI STATEMENT OF WORK’S ORIGINALITY I honestly declare that this thesis, which I have written, does not contain the works or parts of the work of other people, except those cited in the quotation and the references as a scientific paper should. Yogyakarta, 06 November 2017 The Writer Cyrillia Prima Arthami 131214168 v PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH UNTUK KEPENTINGAN AKADEMIS Yang bertanda tangan di bawah ini, saya mahasiswa Universitas Sanata Dharma: Nama : Cyrillia Prima Arthami NIM : 131214168 Demi Pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan, saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma karya ilmiah saya yang berjudul: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AS REFLECTED IN MAYA ANGELOU’S STILL I RISE AND CAGED BIRD POEMS beserta perangkat yang diperlukan (bila ada). Dengan demikian, saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma hak untuk menyimpan, mengalihkan dalam bentuk media lain, mengolahnya dalam bentuk pangkalan data, mendistribusikan secara terbatas, dan mempublikasikannya di Internet atau media lain untuk kepentingan akademis tanpa perlu meminta ijin dari saya maupun memberikan royalti kepada saya selama tetap mencantumkan nama saya sebagai penulis. Demikian pernyataan ini yang saya buat dengan sebenarnya. Dibuat di Yogyakarta Pada tanggal: 06 November 2017 Yang menyatakan, Cyrillia Prima Arthami vi PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRACT Arthami, Cyrillia Prima (2017). The African American Life as Reflected in Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise and Caged Bird Poems. English Language Education Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teachers Training and Education, Yogyakarta. Sanata Dharma University. Maya Angelou is an African American woman who stands up for her people and becomes the civil rights activist. The research discusses the African American life portrayed in two poems by Maya Angelou, Still I Rise and Caged Bird. Despite the other Maya Angelou‟s literary works, like autobiography, the poems are chosen since not many critics chose Maya Angelou‟s poems to be examined. On the other hand, both poems have the same concern of the theme, which is the hardship of the African Americans. The researcher decides to analyze the life of African Americans in the twentieth century from the poems. In order to analyze the poems deeply, there are two research questions to be examined in this research: (1) “What are the poems Still I Rise and Caged Bird mainly about?” and (2) “How was the African American life depicted in the poems?” The sociocultural historical approach is used as the approach of the research since the poem addresses social issues. Through this approach, the actual condition of the African-Americans in the twentieth century is revealed, since the aims of sociocultural historical approach is to learn the literary work in reference to the civilization where the poems were written. After understanding and analyzing the poems, the researcher finds out that the theme of the poems about the determination to get up from the adversity with the desire to survive. Still I Rise poem tells about the African Americans who get false assumptions and injustice from the White Americans. On the other hand, the Caged Bird poem conveys the slavery experience to the African Americans and the art movements they made as a result. The study recommends some suggestions to the teachers and students regarding the purpose of education. The researcher also gives some suggestions for the future researchers and for the English Language Education Study Program lecturers who are interested in analyzing Maya Angelou‟s poetry. Keywords: African Americans, Poem, Still I Rise, Caged Bird vii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRAK Arthami, Cyrillia Prima (2017). The African American Life as Reflected in Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise and Caged Bird Poems. Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Seni, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, Yogyakarta, Universitas Sanata Dharma. Maya Angelou adalah seorang wanita Afro-Amerika yang membela kaumnya dan menjadi seorang aktifis dalam pergerakan hak-hak sipil. Penelitian ini membahas bagaimana kehidupan kaum Afro-Amerika digambarkan dalam dua buah puisi karya Maya Angelou yaitu Still I Rise dan Caged Bird. Dibandingkan karya literatur Maya Angelou yang lain, seperti autobiografi, kedua puisi ini dipilih karena tidak banyak kritikus yang memilih puisi dari Maya Angelou untuk diuji. Di sisi lain, kedua puisi memiliki perhatian yang sama untuk tema dari puisi. Peneliti memutuskan untuk menganalisis kehidupan masyarakat Afro-Amerika pada abad ke dua puluh yang terlihat dari puisi-puisi yang dipilih. Untuk menganalisis puisi-puisi lebih dalam, ada dua pertanyaan untuk dijawab dalam penelitian ini: (1) “Apakah isi dari puisi Still I Rise dan Caged Bird?” dan (2) “Bagaimana kehidupan Afro-Amerika digambarkan dalam kedua puisi?” Pendekatan sosial-budaya dan sejarah digunakan sebagai pendekatan dalam penelitian ini yang memiliki hubungan dengan lingkungan masyarakat tertentu. Melalui pendekatan ini, kondisi masyarakat Afro-Amerika pada abad keduapuluh yang sesungguhnya dapat terungkap, karena tujuan dari pendekatan sosial-budaya dan sejarah adalah untuk mempelajari karya sastra yang sesuai dengan latar kebudayaan yang memproduksinya. Setelah memahami dan menganalisis kedua puisi, peneliti menemukan bahwa tema dalam puisi-puisi tersebut adalah kebulatan tekad untuk bangkit dari kesengsaraan dengan keinginan untuk bertahan hidup. Puisi dengan judul Still I Rise menceritakan mengenai orang-orang Afro-Amerika yang mendapatkan pandangan dan asumsi yang salah serta ketidakadilan dari orang-orang kulit putih di Amerika. Di sisi lain, puisi dengan judul Caged Bird menyampaikan mengenai perbudakan yang terjadi pada orang-orang Afro-Amerika dan pergerakan melalui seni yang mereka lakukan sebagai bentuk protes. Penelitian ini memberikan beberapa saran kepada para guru dan siswa yang berhubungan dengan tujuan dari pendidikan. Peneliti juga memberikan beberapa saran untuk para peneliti dan dosen PBI yang hendak melakukan penelitian terkait dengan puisi karya Maya Angelou. Kata kunci: African American, poem, Still I Rise, Caged Bird viii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to The Almighty God, for His grace enables me to accomplish this thesis. His blessing and guiding light has enlightened me, so I could learn to become better than before. I also thank Virgin Mary, for always listening to all my prayers, to help my depressed soul, heal my wound, and my temperamental time. As the shelter to my life journey, Her presence in my heart really calms me down and helps me a lot. Thus, I would also like to thank the people around me who have helped me to finish this thesis. I thank my father, Bapak Ignatius Heru Prijono, for he made me see the world differently and made me realize that I will always be loved. I believe that he will always look after me from above. Also, I thank my mother Ibu Marciana Wara Sudjiatmi for the support, tolerance, unconditional love and patience to her daughter to finish this thesis. To my one and only brother, Dion and my sisters Egi and Resi, I thank them for the support. I am sorry for the wrath I spew forth at them in my time of distress. I would like to convey my sincere gratitude to my advisor, Laurentia Sumarni, S.Pd., M.Trans. St., for the time she had spent reading and checking my thesis, and also the respond to my complaints. I deeply appreciate the guidance, support, motivation, and references that she has given to me. My gratitude also goes to Henny Herawati, S.Pd., M.Hum., and Drs. Bambang Hendarto Yuliwarsono, M.Hum., for the time, suggestion, and advise so that I could write my thesis better and more organize. I would also like to express my ix PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI gratitude to all the lecturers in the ELESP Sanata Dharma University for the advice and knowledge. They are all the great people whom I always look up to. I relay my thankfulness to all of my friends, Titak, Enno, Fidel, Michael, Andre, Wisnu, for loving me beyond my expectation. I thank my college sisters, Nerry, Gina, Liza, Erni, Ipo, for the companionship and understanding through my study and life. I would also like to give special thanks to Maria Dian Fajar Rianti, S.Pd., who sincerely spent time to help me, read and comment on my thesis. Further, I thank Class D mates, for all of the good memories that we have shared together inside and outside the classroom. For Proposal Seminar class friends, I thank them for sharing, struggling and the togetherness. I thank them for becoming my motivation to always move forward. To my library friends, I feel grateful for the ideas, the motivation, and good time spent in the freezing library. I thank all of the PBI 2013 friends. I will always pray for their success. Also, to the sisters in UKM Ballet TUTU Club, I feel so blessed that I have them and make my college life less stressful and more passionate when I was with them. Lastly, I send my gratitude to everyone who have supported me during my study in the ELESP Sanata Dharma University. May God always bless them. Cyrillia Prima Arthami x