| dc.description.abstract | Poetry, drama and novel are three forms of literary works. Poetry is the most
condensed and concentrated one. Saying most in the fewest numbers of words is the
characteristics of poetry that makes it clearly different from any other forms of
literary works. Song is a short metrical composition intended for singing; a lyric; a
ballad. Derived from words in Icelandic, German, and Old English meaning “ to
sing,” song is most often employed in literature to refer to lyric poem adapted to
expression in music (Shaw, 1972:350).
Figurative language is deliberate and intentional departure from normal meaning
or word order so as to gain freshness and strength of expression (Shaw, 1972:160). In
fact, figurative in this research is used for expressing deep feelings, thought and the
greatest range of emotions that cannot be communicated in literal sense.
Meanwhile the problem of this study deals with the Coldplay’s song from the
album X&Y and their beautiful lyrics that also contain for message are interesting to
be analyzed. From those explanations above they are two points of problems to be
discussed in this thesis; they are the understanding of Coldplay’s songs through an
analysis of figurative language and the types of figurative language in Coldplay’s
songs in album x&y. the approach to use in this thesis is an expressive theory
approach. This thesis will be entitled” An analysis of Figurative Language on the
Coldplay’s songs in Album “X&Y”, the songs are What If, White Shadows, Fix You,
Talk, Speech of Sound, A Message, Low, The Hardest Part and Twisted Logic
This thesis also uses library research to collect data and information that are
relevant to the topic of discussion. The data are taken from printed material, such as
books and dictionaries to support the analysis. The data that are collected from
internet is also considered to complete or to compare with the other data, so that the
analysis will be more accurate. It is used to analyze all materials that have close
relation to the discussion of the thesis.
The organization of the study in this thesis is structured into five chapters. The
first chapter is the introduction that gives general explanation of the study that
consists of the background of the study, the problems which will be discussed, the
scope of the study, the goal of the study and also the organization of the thesis. The
biography of Coldplay will be presented in the second chapter. Chapter three is
theoretical review that shows relevant references. Chapter four is the data
presentation and discussion to apply songs with an analysis of figurative language.
Last chapter is conclusion of the thesis and also provides suggestion to readers | en_US |
