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Title:	A comparative stylistic study of the images of men and women in the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Forough Farrokhzad
Authors:	Hassanpour Forough (P48393)
Supervisor:	Prof. Ruzy Suliza Hashim
Keywords:	Poems of Sylvia Plath Poems of Forough Farrokhzad Poetry Men and women Language functions Gender identity in literature-history and criticism
Issue Date:	8-Jul-2014
Description:	The aim of this thesis is to compare the poems of Sylvia Plath and Forough Farrokhzad. This study is unique in bringing two poets from the East and West, one belonging to Persian and the other to American literature, to show the ways in which they converge and diverge in their representations of men and women. At a glance, their poetry show intriguing similarities. Although they were separated by space, culture and beliefs, their short tragic lives and poetry show similar preoccupation of the ways in which women are subordinated. Their poems, however, have not been put in comparison through a stylistic approach. The employed theory in this study is Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), a theory of language that concerns language functions. Poetry, with its emphasis on the economy of words, lends itself to the semiotic and lexico-grammatical aspects of the languages used by the poets. Through the lens of SFL, the findings reveal that the number of material process which shows action, physical experience, agency (Actor, Doer) all are attributed to men in both two poets' works. This may imply that men have the authority and the power and the choice and women are manifested as objects, goal, and phenomenon or affected, and the agency and actor hood are excluded from the female identity. The use of personal pronouns in the subject position leads to the higher degree of personalization. If woman is the doer, the sentences changes to passive voice indicating that the action of the woman is insignificant. These findings imply that while the poets share certain similarities, the divergences towards female oppression and challenges are also apparent due to differences of religious beliefs and cultural practices which are made more overt through the lens of SFL,Tujuan tesis ini ialah untuk membandingkan puisi Sylvia Plath dan Forough Farrokhzad. Kajian ini unik kerana ia mempertemukan dua orang penyair dari Timur dan Barat, satu dari sastera Parsi, dan seorang lagi daripada sastera Amerika, untuk memaparkan perbezaan dan persamaan mereka pemaparan citra lelaki dan wanita. Pandangan kasar menunjukkan kedua-dua penyair ini mempunyai beberapa persamaan ketara. Walaupun mereka dipisahkan batasan jarak, budaya dan kepercayaan, pandangan mereka berkenaan isu-isu dalam masyarakat yang dikuasai golongan lelaki tidak begitu berbeza antara satu sama lain. Namun begitu, Plath dan Farrokhzad merupakan penyair wanita yang belum pernah dibandingkan dengan cara stilistik. Teori yang digunakan dalam kajian ini dipanggil Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL), sebuah teori bahasa yang berkait dengan fungsi bahasa. Sajak, dengan tekanannya terhadap ekonomi perkataan, wujud dalam aspek semiotik dan tatabahasa yang digunakan oleh kedua-dua penyair. Dalam puisi Farrokhzad dan Plath yang dikaji melalui lensa SFL, dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa bilangan proses material yang menggambarkan aksi, pengalaman fizikal, agensi (Pelakon, Pelaku) kesemuanya dikatakan cenderung kepada ciri lelaki. Ini mungkin bermaksud lelaki mempunyai kuasa dan pilihan, manakala wanita pula dijadikan objek, matlamat, fenomena atau golongan terkesan, dan ciri agensi dan pelaku tidak disertakan dalam ciri identiti wanita. Penggunaan kata ganti nama peribadi dalam posisi subjek membawa kepada tahap personalisasi yang lebih tinggi. Sekiranya si wanita merupakan pelaku, ayatnya bertukar menjadi ayat pasif yang menandakan bahawa perlakuan wanita tidak signifikan. Implikasi penemuan ini menunjukkan bahawa Plath dan Farrokhzad menunjukkan perbezaan dari segi penyampaian puisi kerana kepercayaan agama dan praktis budaya yang berlainan yang lebih terserlah menerusi lensa SFL.,Ph.D
Pages:	270
Call Number:	PN56.G45 H347 2014
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan

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