A Linguistic Analysis of Figurative Language in Wulid al-Huda Poem

Abstract

Language is a system of communication made up of a collection of written symbols and sounds that the people of a certain nation or area use for writing and speaking. Communicating one's thoughts, feelings, and opinions to others is a genuinely amazing skill. The figurative language in Ahmed Shawqi's poetry indicates that these figurative expressions transcend mere poetic ideas. This research aims to investigate and clarify the basic types of figurative language in the poem, as well as to amplify its spiritual and creative connotations. This is achieved by using a qualitative descriptive approach based on Deignan’s (2009) model for analyzing poetic texts. The researcher found 6 types of figurative language in poem. The results showed that 170 figurative terms used in data, with conceptual metaphor being the most frequent category, occurring 72 times (42.35%). Proverb expressions were the least frequent, occurring only 3 times (1.76%).