A Study of Style: Stylistics in Two Poems of Seribu Sajak Tao Toba as Teaching Material on Poetry Appreciation Course

This research aims to reveal how the style description of the text structure in the two poems of North Sumatera Poet compiled in the Anthology of Poetry book Seribu Sajak Tao Toba. The research indicators used were guided by four aspects of style based on literary stylistics study including a) diction, b) rhyme, c) imagery, and d) figurative language. The achievement of this research analysis applied the descriptive qualitative method. The results of the study were concluded as follows, 1) In the poem Seribu Sajak Tao Toba was found denotation and connotation diction, clerihew rhyme and alliteration rhyme, visual imagery, feeling, auditory, olfactory, and motion imagery, whereas in figurative language was found hyperbole, personification, sarcasm, allegory, and antanaclasis. 2) In Berita dari Kaldera Toba Purba poem was discovered connotation and denotation diction, monorhyme, feeling, olfactory, visual and motion imagery, while in the figurative language, hyperbole, allegory, personification, sarcasm, satire, rhetoric, cynicism, and association were found. The external target achieved is textbooks with ISBN, scientific publications in the national journal, international seminar proceedings, and the integration of the research result in the semester learning plan (RPS) of Poetry Appreciation course.