English Literature & Its Teaching: Character Building Through Poem – Dr. Dra. Mutmainnah Mustafa, M.Pd

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ………………………………………………………. v
Table of Content ……………………………………………………………………… vii
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION ………………………………………………………………….. 1
A. Literature …………………………………………………………………………………. 1
B. Branches of Literary Works………………………………………………………. 2
CHAPTER 2
FINDING THE MEANING OF THE POETRY………………………….. 5
A. General Meaning ……………………………………………………………………… 5
B. Detailed Meaning …………………………………………………………………….. 8
C. Intention ………………………………………………………………………………….. 13
CHAPTER 3
STRUCTURAL DEVICES ……………………………………………………… 19
A. Contrast …………………………………………………………………………………… 19
B. Illustration……………………………………………………………………………….. 20
C. Repetition ………………………………………………………………………………… 24
CHAPTER 4
SENSE DEVICES ………………………………………………………………… 27
A. Simile……………………………………………………………………………………….. 27
B. Metaphor …………………………………………………………………………………. 28
C. Personification …………………………………………………………………………. 29

CHAPTER 5
Types of Poetry…………………………………………………………………. 33
A. Descriptive……………………………………………………………………………….. 33
B. Reflective………………………………………………………………………………….. 39
C. Narrative ………………………………………………………………………………….. 46
CHAPTER 6
THE LYRICS……………………………………………………………………….. 53
A. 18th Century Lyric …………………………………………………………………… 53
B. Romantics Lyric ……………………………………………………………………….. 54
C. 19th Century Lyric …………………………………………………………………… 54
D. 20th Century Lyric …………………………………………………………………… 56
CHAPTER 7
VALUES IN LITERARY WORKS …………………………………………… 59
A. Religious Values……………………………………………………………………….. 59
1. Be Sincere …………………………………………………………………………… 59
2. Thank To God …………………………………………………………………….. 61
3. Spread Salam………………………………………………………………………. 62
4. Be Afraid Only To Allah Swt……………………………………………….. 63
5. Be Patient……………………………………………………………………………. 67
CHAPTER 8
Philosophical Values…………………………………………………………. 69
A. Philosohical Values…………………………………………………………………… 69
B. The Essence of Life …………………………………………………………………… 70
CHAPTER 9
Ethical Values……………………………………………………………………. 79
1. Ethics To God……………………………………………………………………… 79
2. Ethic To Ourselves………………………………………………………………. 81
3. Ethics To People………………………………………………………………….. 84
4. Ethics to Nature ………………………………………………………………….. 85

CHAPTER 10
Esthetical Values………………………………………………………………. 87
A. Esthethical Value ……………………………………………………………………… 87
CHAPTER 11 119
Character Building…………………………………………………………….. 119
A. Character building through the poems Family Friend Poem ……. 142
B. Analysis character building through Value Of Tear And A Smile 143
C. The Analysis character building through Poem “ Cheaper”………. 144
D. The Analysis character building through poem
“To One Who Can See Me”………………………………………………………. 145
E. Character building through poem „Where can I Life
by Aslam Yusuf ………………………………………………………………………… 147
F. Character building through Rumi’s poem ”God is the “Professor”
of the “Kingdom”……………………………………………………………………… 150
G. Character building through Gibran’s Poems……………………………… 152
H. Character building through the beauty of Rumi’s poem……………. 154
I. Analysis of character building through Ghazal of Rumi
by Jalalluddin Rumi………………………………………………………………….. 162
J. Character building though “Our death is our wedding
with eternity” by A.J. Arberrry. ………………………………………………… 213
K. The analysis of character building through “Dreams”
by Langston Hughes…………………………………………………………………. 224
REFERENCES ……………………………………………………………………. 229