Translation of Personification Majas in the Poetry of Indonesian Language into English (Analysis of Contents of 5 Poems in June Rain by Sapardi Djoko Damono in Before Dawn by John H. McGlynn)

Fauzy Astuti^1, , Aceng Rahmat², Rahayu Surtiati Hidayat³ and Adi Apriadi Adiansha³

¹Applied Linguistics, State University of Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia

²Language Education, State University of Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia

³Department of Linguistics Education, State University of Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia

Cite this paper:
Fauzy Astuti, Aceng Rahmat, Rahayu Surtiati Hidayat and Adi Apriadi Adiansha. Translation of Personification Majas in the Poetry of Indonesian Language into English (Analysis of Contents of 5 Poems in June Rain by Sapardi Djoko Damono in Before Dawn by John H. McGlynn). American Journal of Educational Research. 2019; 7(1):60-64. doi: 10.12691/education-7-1-10

Abstract

The objective of this research is to show to the reader about the tanslation techniques of personification in poem. It is a content analysis in a qualitative methodology. The data of this research are personification sentences in Indonesian poems and its translation in English. This research used a comparative analysis to analize the data of both languages. The researcher compared the poems translation and its source language. The data analyzing leads to find the translation techniques and methods used by the translator. The findings of this research shows that the techniques used by the translator are amplification, transposition, and reduction. Meanwhile the method used by the translator is literal.

Keywords:
personification poem technique and method

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