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THE CONSTRUCTION OF FEMINIST IDEOLOGY IN THE POEM ‘HOW TOTRIUMPH LIKE A GIRL’ BY ADA LIMON: A TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS
Abstract
Abstract
This study aims to examine transitivity patterns in Ada Limon’s poem ‘How to Triumph Like a Girl’. The poemhas been studied earlier from literary lens, but no prior study has revealed how it builds agencies and generatesmeaning through various functions of language. Based on Halliday’s ideational metafunction, the studyinvestigates different types of processes, participants and circumstances by dividing the poem into 13 clauses;extending this, it also reveals how particular word choices construct meaning through the use of modalized andmodulated processes. The study applied mixed-method as there is a quantitative analysis of how many times aspecific transitivity pattern occurs and a qualitative analysis on how the meanings are constructed through thoseinstances. Analysis showed that mental processes, both modalized and modulated, were prevalent in the poem.Findings showed the participant arc moves from I-the writer to You-the reader which eventually leads to It-theheart of the writer. There is a shift of perspective too that showed uncertainty at the beginning by low modality‘as if’ ending on high modality ‘going to’ showing absolute clarity. The study concludes that Limon’s feministideology as portrayed in the poem reveals a feminine triumph which is both personally felt and widelyacknowledged.
This study aims to examine transitivity patterns in Ada Limon’s poem ‘How to Triumph Like a Girl’. The poemhas been studied earlier from literary lens, but no prior study has revealed how it builds agencies and generatesmeaning through various functions of language. Based on Halliday’s ideational metafunction, the studyinvestigates different types of processes, participants and circumstances by dividing the poem into 13 clauses;extending this, it also reveals how particular word choices construct meaning through the use of modalized andmodulated processes. The study applied mixed-method as there is a quantitative analysis of how many times aspecific transitivity pattern occurs and a qualitative analysis on how the meanings are constructed through thoseinstances. Analysis showed that mental processes, both modalized and modulated, were prevalent in the poem.Findings showed the participant arc moves from I-the writer to You-the reader which eventually leads to It-theheart of the writer. There is a shift of perspective too that showed uncertainty at the beginning by low modality‘as if’ ending on high modality ‘going to’ showing absolute clarity. The study concludes that Limon’s feministideology as portrayed in the poem reveals a feminine triumph which is both personally felt and widelyacknowledged.