AN ANALYSIS OF MENTAL PROCESS IN MILK AND HONEY POEMS COLLECTION BY RUPI KAUR SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS APPROACH

The study of SFL in the form of the poem becomes an object in this study. This study applied one of the scopes of SFL in Milk and Honey poems collection. This study examined the mental process in Milk and Honey poems collection. The purposes of this study were (1) to identify the kinds of mental processes in Milk and Honey poems collection, (2) to explain the reason of the author represented the kinds of mental processes in Milk and Honey poems collection. This study used theory from Halliday and Matthiessen. According to that theory, the mental process is divided into three types: cognition, affection, and perception. The analysis showed that cognition and perception dominated the author’s representation in Milk and Honey poems collection, while affection was the least type that appeared in this poems collection. Those were implied that the author wanted to tell women for using their thought and sensitivity instead of using their feeling to express their supposed intention. Keywords: SFL, transitivity, mental process, Milk and Hone