Comparing Morphemes in Poetic and Journalistic Texts

Silitonga, Catrine (2025) Comparing Morphemes in Poetic and Journalistic Texts. S1 thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

This thesis discusses morphemes in poems and journalistic article texts. The poems under examination are four poems from Sylvia Plath entitled “Love Letter”, “The Moon and The Yew Tree”, “Heavy Women” and ‘Elm’, while the article text was taken from the CNN.com website entitled "So, you've gotten into a college. Now what?". The objectives of this study are (1) to find out the types of morphemes used in both text types and (2) to find out the similarities and differences of morphemes used in both text types. The theories used in the morpheme analysis process are Katamba's (1993) theory, Bauer's (1983) theory of the word formation process, and Finegan's (2014) tree diagram theory. This research employed a descriptive qualitative method. The data were classified based on the number of morphemes following the word formation process, counted based on the classification results, and analyzed based on morpheme types. It was found that a total of 986 words for an article and 952 words for poems. Based on the amount of data, it can be concluded that there are free morphemes and bound morphemes in each text type, and the bound morphemes also have two types, namely derivational and inflectional. In conclusion, it was found that both text types use inflectional morphemes more than derivational morphemes. However, the difference is that the derivational morphemes used are more in the poetic texts than in the journalistic text.

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