"The Old Pond" is one of the greatest Basho's poems. Basho is the great Japanese poet, the theoretician of a verse. The flowers are personalization in this poem. Personalization is an object's description as being an animal or a living person. Besides, Wordsworth uses stylistic devises, such as an ontological metaphor (personalization) and emotionally strong words: "golden", "bliss" and "dancing". When Wordsworth thinks about the yellow daffodils, he perks up. The yellow daffodils symbolize the beauty of nature. Secondly, this poem tries to prove that people are not actually alone if they have the ability to make use of memories efficaciously. It underlines that the value of memories should be presented in our life. Firstly, the poem is considered to a poem of remembrance. In this situation, Wordsworth describes himself as lonely and alone. In addition, this poem shows us the deep emotions and feelings of the poet. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is a lyric poem that deals with Wordsworth's reply to the beauty of nature. The poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" was written in 1804 in Grasmere when Wordsworth and his brother went to the shore of the lake, all overgrown with yellow daffodils. Although Wordsworth was against philosophy, yet in his thinking remains enlightening idea of natural rights and natural equality of human beings. In the works of Wordsworth is the fraction of mysticism and the deification of nature, there is a little moralizing and piety, but it all gets lost in his deeply lyrical and simple poetry. Wordsworth admitted that nature is the greatest teacher. He believed that his poetic purpose was to show the nature of a man not as a refuge from suffering and commitment, but as a source of "pure passion and fun," enduring inspiration and support. William Wordsworth is a poet of nature and a man. The "simple" way of life was their ideal, and Wordsworth took his apology in his literature. They always contrast urban life with simple "uncorrupted" life of the province. William Wordsworth is an English romantic poet, the representative of "the Lake School." The representatives of Romanticism sharply condemned urban culture. In order to fully and critically analyze these poems it is necessary to describe the manner of style and folk arts of William Wordsworth and Basho. In this paper I am going to analyze, discuss and compare the following poems "I wandered lonely as a cloud" by William Wordsworth and "The old pond" by Basho according to their imagery, vocabulary and tone. The contribution of the students " interest in reading poetry to their ability to analyze poetry is 47.29%. The correlation coefficient was 0.726, and the regression line was Y = 12.07 + 0,948x. The result of the study shows that there was any positive correlation between the students " interest in reading poetry and students " ability to analyze poetry at the eleventh grade students of SMA Kartika I – 2 Medan. It was found that r count was higher than r table (0.726> 0.361), and thus null hypothesis was successfully rejected. The hypothesis was tested by comparing the value of r count to r table on the degree of freedom (df) = 30-2 = 28 with α = 0.05 significance level and df = 28 (0.361). The product moment correlation formula was used to determine the correlation between two variables, the students " interest in reading poetry and their ability to analyze poetry. The instruments used to obtain data were the students " interest in reading poetry questionnaire consisted of 20 items and a test consisted of 24 multiple choice items constructed to find out the students " ability to analyze poetry "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth. The study took a representative sample of 30 students taken by random sampling technique. The population was eleventh grade students of SMA Kartika I-2 Medan. This study was a correlational design with the aim of finding out if there was any positive correlation between the students " interest in reading poetry and their ability to analyze poetry at SMA Kartika I-2 Medan.
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