An Analysis of Moral Messages in Damono’s Poems Hujan Bulan Juni. Fajar Taufik Anwar 127010054

The moral is a good view of life values, manners and propriety, contained in literary work. Learning moral in literary work is a good thing to stimulate the development of moral reasoning levels, which can increase a person's attitude and behavior towards goodness. The writer chose “An Analysis of Moral Message in Damono’s Poems Hujan Bulan Juni” as the title of this research. This research has two purposes: To find out the meaning of the selected poem, and to find out the moral and how the poem conveyed the moral message of the selected poem. The writer limits the research into eight poems, which is considered has contained with morals, which can be determined by analyzing the words, phrases, and sentences. The writer analyzes the meaning which can be determined by analyzing words, figure of speech, character, setting, and imagery. The writer analyzes the way of the moral message conveyed in selected poems by analyzing the meaning of the poem based on the theory of poems by Roberts and Jacobs, and the theory of moral by Nurgiyantoro. This method is using qualitative descriptive method describes the problem or case proposed based on the available fact, the specific ones, then be investigated to solve the problems and draw the general conclusions. The writer found the meaning of the selected poems then analyzed it based on the theory. The meaning of the selected poems determines the moral value that is found in the form of advice for life. The result of analyzing the data that the meaning of the selected poems contains the moral message. The moral that the writer found by analyzing the meaning of poems, in a direct and indirect way to conveyed. This research concluded that trough literature the authors or poets can convey moral as the message that contained in their literary works are useful for the reader. Keywords: meaning, moral, messag