1. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS “I BUILD WALLS”

2. I BUILD WALLS I build walls Walls that protect, Walls that shield, Walls that say I shall not yield or reveal Who I am or how I feel I build walls Walls that hide Walls that cover what’s inside, Walls that stare or smile or look away, silent lies, Walls that even block my eyes from the tears I might have cried I build walls Walls that never let me truly touch Those I love so very much Walls that need to fall! Walls meant to be fortresses are prisons after all

3. FORMAL LINKS of the POEM Verb Form Parallelism

4. FORMAL LINKS of the POEM Referring Expression Repetition

5. FORMAL LINKS of the POEM Ellipsis Conjunction

6. The analysis of poem • The biggest percentage is repetition aspect (31.5%). • The writer chose some words (I, walls, and build) to tell us that the writer needs to be alone because of love or sadness • I = the writer often used it to make stressed • Walls = to make it sure that he/she did it • Build = the writer’s doing

7. The analysis of poem • Even most of verb forms use verb present, but there is something interesting in the end of poem “WALLS MEANT TO BE FORTRESSES ARE PRISONS AFTER ALL” • (the writer never makes walls. The writer wishes had made walls, but the writer hadn’t) • The writer has big problem which the write keeps it secret, the writer doesn’t want to share for someone’s else • the writer prefers to build walls tahn to say what he/she fells • Finally the writer doesn’t make walls because of some reasons which the writer felt before.