FIGURE OF SPEECH IN THREE DIFFERENT “EYES NOSE LIPS”
SONGS
THESIS
Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Sarjana Degree of English Department Faculty of Arts and Humanities
State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya.
By
Hasbullah Makruf
Reg. Number A33212078
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
FIGURE OF SPEECH IN THREE DIFFERENT “EYES
NOSE LIPS”
SONGS
By
Hasbullah Makruf
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF SUNAN AMPEL SURABAYA
ABSTRACT
Makruf, Hasbullah. 2016. Figure of Speech in three different “Eyes, Nose, Lips” songs. Englsih Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, State Islamic University Sunan Ampel Surabaya.
The Advisor : M. Thoriqussu’udM. Pd.
Key Terms : Stylistics, Figure of Speech, Lyric.
This study focuses on analyzing songs lyric. This study neither focuses on one renowned artist nor one album of the renowned one. This study is focuses on one title song that cover and remake by the other artist. The song is “Eyes, Nose, Lips” from Korean. This is a stylistics-semantics study that focuses on figures of speech and the meaning of it. The writer uses a theory of figures of speech from Christina’s book. For discovering the meaning of figure of speech, the writer uses connotative meaning from Leech’s book.
The objectives of the study are; to describe the figure speech found and to describe the meaning of figure of speech found from the three different lyrics. The writer uses descriptive qualitative that called textual analysis. The lyric of the three versions of “Eyes, Nose, Lips” is the data source. The writer does several steps to analyze: (1) identifies an expression that might have figure of speech, (2) give a code and classify kind of figure of speech found, (3) discover and interpret the meaning that conveys from figure of speech found.
INTISARI
Makruf, Hasbullah. 2016. Figure of Speech in three different “Eyes, Nose, Lips” songs. Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya.
Pembimbing : M. Thoriqussu’udM. Pd. Kata Kunci : Stilistika, Permajasan, Lirik.
Penelitian ini terfokus pada analisa lirik lagu. Penelitian ini tidak terfokus pada satu artis ternama dan tidak juga terfokus pada satu album karya artis ternama. Penelitian ini terfokus pada satu judul lagu yang dicover dan diremake
oleh artis lain. Lagu yang diteliti adalah “Eyes, Nose, Lips” lagu Kpop dari Korea Selatan. Penelitian ini merupakan kajian stilistika-semantik yang berfokus pada permajasan dan makna dari majas tersebut. Penulis menggunakan teori permajasan dari buku yang dikarang oleh Christina. Untuk mengetahui makna dari permajasan, penulis menggunakan makna konotatif dari buku karangan Leech.
Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah; untuk mendeskripsikan macam macam majas dan mencari makna dari majas yang telah ditemukan dari tiga lirik yang berbeda tersebut. Penulis menggunakan kajian deskriptif kualitatif yang disebut analisa tekstual. Sumber Data penelitian ini merupakan tiga versi lirik berbeda “Eyes, Nose, Lips”. Peneliti melakukan beberapa langkah untuk menganalisa: (1) mengidentifikasi sebuah ucapan yang memungkinkan menggunakan majas, (2) memberi kode dan mengelompokkan jenis majas yang ditemukan, (3) menafsirkan makna yang terkandung pada majas tersebut.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Inside Cover Page ... i
Inside Title Page ... ii
Motto ... iii
Declaration Page ... iv
Dedication Page ... v
Advisor’s Approval Page ... vi
Examiner’s Approval Page ... vii
Acknowledgement ... viii
Table of Contents ... ix
Abstract ... xi
Intisari ... xii
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study ... 1
1.2 Research Questions ... 7
1.3 Research Objectives ... 7
1.4 Significance of the Study ... 7
1.5 Scope and Limitation ... 8
1.6 Definition of Key Terms ... 8
CHAPTER II THEORITICAL BASES 2.1 Stylistics ... 9
2.1.1 Figure of Speech ... 11
2.1.1.1 Kinds of Figure of Speech... 13
2.1.1.2 More on Tropes ... 14
2.1.1.3 More on Schemes ... 17
2.2 Semantics ... 19
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
3.1Research Design ... 22
3.2 Instrument ... 23
3.3 Data and Data Source ... 24
3.4 Data Collection ... 25
3.5 Data Analysis ... 26
CHAPTER IV FINDING AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Finding ... 30
4.1.1 Kind of Figure of Speech in Eyes, Nose, Lips songs ... 31
4.1.2 Meaning Figure of speech found in Eyes, Nose, Lips songs ... 32
4.1.2.1 Version 1: Eyes, Nose, Lips original ... 32
4.1.2.2 Version 2: Eyes, Nose, Lips rap version ... 36
4.1.2.3 Version 3: Eyes, Nose, Lips cover woman version ... 45
4.2 Discussion ... 50
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 5.1 Conclusion ... 58
5.2 Suggestion ... 60
REFERENCES ... 61
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents introduction of study involves background of the study, research question, research objectives, significance of the research, scope and limitations, and definition of key terms.
1.1 Background of the Study
Doing stylistics thereby enriches our ways of thinking about language and, as observed, exploring language offers a substantial purchase on our understanding of (literary) texts (Simpson, 2004:3). A study about stylistics has been conducted in many kind of literary texts, for instance: Quran (Suniarti, 2014, Reisyaf, 2015), Movie (Rohman, 2015), Book, (Rukhiyatun, 2013), Short Story (Farhan, 2015, Ayuningsih, 2015), poem (Nurhayati, 2014, Kuswandini, 2015, Hidayati, 2015, Andriyani, 2015) and also song lyric can be included. Song lyric has been used as a field of studies and subject matters by many researchers, such as: Avril Lavigne’s song (Suro’idah, 2015), Coldplay’s song (Ramadhani, 2015), David Archuleta’s song (Hanifah, 2014), Maher Zein’s song (Oktavia, 2015, Hannifa, 2014) and Dewa 19’s song (Egi Pratama, 2014). Many researchers that
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investigate the figure of speech in the lyric using Christina’s theory of figure of speech.
Why song lyric indicated as literary work? Many songwriters or a singer itself express their emotions, desires and feelings to the form of poetic lyric. Lyric is poetry itself, if we separate music and the lyric from a song, Lyric will be considered as poetry (Perrine, 1973:3). Perrine states that poetry might define as a kind of language that says more than ordinary language. Lyric is brief poems that were meant to be sung or chanted to accompaniment of a lyre. So, as poetry does, lyric also has beautiful language that can describe the situation and the feeling of the writer for the intention of the poetry. There are some elements that consist in poetry such as figures of speech, imagery, tone and rhyme (Kennedy: 2005, in Tutuk: 2014).
This study focuses on the figure of speech in song lyric. The writer chooses figure of speech because song lyric or we can say poetic lyric – as Kennedy stated - contains many beautiful language and expressions that full of imagination to make reader pleased. Beside its beautiful, figure of speech sometimes show a deeper meaning behind what it utters. There are some examples of poetic lyric in pop song; we’re beautiful like diamonds in the sky
(Diamonds by Rihanna). In the lyric above, it is using simile, it expresses a resemblance between two unlike things using like or as. Another figure of speech is hyperbole, here is the example,
I’d catch a grenade for you,
throw my head on a plane for you,
I’d jump in front of a train for yah,
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The lyric is exaggerating for emphasizing how much the singer’s love. That is the example of figure of speech from pop song. Now try to look at the example in verbal language, Let us assume your brother just come in out of the rainstorm and he say, “I’m drowned! It’s raining cats and dogs, and my raincoat is like a sieve”. Actually your brother was speaking figuratively, he did not really
mean that he is drowned or raining cats and dogs, He uses hyperbole and some expression to emphasize how bad his look is after come out of rainstorm. That is the reason the writer chooses this topic for this research and why figure of speech need to analyze.
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Second, Suro’idah (2015) Figures of speech used by Avril Lavigne’s songs. This thesis presents figures of speech by Avril Lavigne in her first Album “Let’s Go”. Furthermore, the writer has two research problems. Those are, what kinds of figure of speech are used by Avril Lavigne’s songs and what are the
reasons. The writer uses figures of speech theory by Perrine (1975) to analyze kind of figure of speech and to analyze the reasons of figures of speech. The results of this study are metaphor, simile, paradox, hyperbole, personification, synecdoche, apostrophe, and symbol. Furthermore, the reason is to develop imagination of people, to express ideas, feelings and emotion of people into lyric.
Third, a study conducted by Tutuk, (2014) Figure of speech in Maher
Zein’s songs. This study has two problems: (1) what kind of figures of speech in
the songs of Maher Zein? (2) What are the connotative meanings of the figure of speech in Maher Zein’s songs? From those two problems, the writer use two
theories, Figure of speech by Perrine and connotative meaning from semantic theory. They have eight metaphors, three personifications, ten paradoxes, six symbols, nine hyperboles, one irony and one simile. The writer found that maher zein’s songs has beautiful lyric and have the motivated message to Muslim in the
world.
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on the occurrence of words and formulations that have some kind of extended or transferred meaning.Tropes is a cover term from traditional rhetoric for language uses with some kind of secondary meaning or a meaning that cannot be taken literally (Cf Crystal, 2001:116f & 1992:135 in Arvius, Christina: 2003). So, for understanding the meaning of figure of speech, this theory seems appropriate because the book also described the secondary meaning more deeply. Nevertheless, the writer still needs the other book resources for understanding what figure of speech is. For instance, a book by Perrine, Sound and Sense, the book tell about what poetry is and many kinds of figure of speech from poetry. Thus, Perrine’s book also supports the theory that wills writer use for this study.
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by one of his Instagram followers. Michael Bublé and his band mates can be seen singing in Korean. (Accessed at Wikipedia.com and allkpop.com)
The reason why the writer chooses Eyes, Nose, Lips song to analyze is this song has interesting lyric to analyze. One song that popular, then other artists make a cover and remake the lyric. Then, the writer choose three different lyric with has the same title that covered by YG family. This is the unique thing. Then, the phenomenon about one song that covered by other artist with different lyric is rarely happened. Commonly, when people try covering a song, they cover the voice or just the instrument like guitar. The original version of Eyes, Nose, Lips
song is sung by Taeyang from YG entertainment in South Korea. This song is covered by some artist. First one is covered by Tablo with a rap version lyric and Taeyang appeared during its bridge part. Then, Lydia Paek, YG Family artist to participate in the project to cover the song and produced the woman’s version of the song.
In Conclusion, the writer identifies kinds of figure of speech in Eyes, Nose, Lips from the scope of stylistics through Christina theory. For Stylistics, the writer use Leech and Short’s book “Style in Fiction”, for understanding figure of speech,
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the writer can differentiate those three lyrics from the meaning of the song. Unlike the previous studies, this study tried to analyze figure of speech using Christina theory.
1.2 Research Questions
Based on the background of the study, the writer has some problems related to the study:
1. What kinds of figure of speech from these three Eyes, Nose, Lips songs? 2. What is the meaning of figure of speech from three Eyes, Nose, Lips songs?
1.3 Research Objectives
This study is to find out the answer of the following problems:
1. to describe the figure speech found from these three Eyes, Nose, Lips songs 2. to describe the meaning of figure of speech found from these three Eyes,
Nose, Lips songs
1.4 Significance of the study
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By knowing figure of speech, the students of UINSA might improve their sense of choosing beautiful word for expressing their emotions or feeling through writing some poem or novels.
1.5 Scope and Limitation
In order to keep the readers concerning the topic, the writer limits this study in beautiful expressions or figure of speech that found using Christina theory’s figure of speech and focus on the meaning of it. After that, the writer will
concern to the connotative meaning used in the three version lyric of Eyes, Nose, Lips song.
Connotative meaning is chosen because in interpreting non-literal meaning of language – such as figure of speech in poetry (poetic lyric) - we need to see the ‘real word’ of the referent and any characteristic of it. Connotative meaning is
open-ended in the same way as our knowledge and beliefs about the universe.
1.6 Definition of Key Terms
Stylistics: Stylistics is a method of textual interpretation in which primacy of place is assigned to language (Simpson: 2004). Stylistics is a branch of applied linguistics concerned with the study of style.
Figure of Speech: any way of saying something with unordinary way (Perrine: 2012). It is a way to visualize an expression, for instance: using hyperbole in poetry (poetic lyric).
CHAPTER II
THEORETICAL BASES
This chapter presents the discussion of stylistics & figure of speech as one of the stylistics features (stylistics categories) that become a focus in this study for answering question number one. As well as, semantics & connotative meaning theory for answering the question number two since figure of speech (figurative language) is a language that cannot be taken literally. So, the writer can say this is stylistics-semantics study.
2.1 Stylistics
The word stylistics is derived from style. Stylistics is a branch of linguistics that defines different styles and variations in Language/s. It refers to the study of level of appropriateness in the use of words or language in a sentence or writing. Widowson (1975:3) defines stylistics as ―the study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation. Style has different meanings for different people.
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thinking about language and, as observed, exploring language offers a substantial purchase on our understanding of (literary) texts.
Then, the preferred object of study in stylistics is literature. Simpson (2004:3) said there are two important points about connection between stylistics and literature. First, Creativity and innovation in language use should not be seen as the exclusive preserve of literary writing. Many forms of discourse (advertising, journalism, and popular music – even casual conversation) often display a high degree of stylistic dexterity, such that it would be wrong to view dexterity in language use as exclusive to canonical literature. Second, the techniques of stylistic analysis are as much about deriving insights about linguistic structure and function as they are about understanding literary texts. From many forms of discourse, popular music becomes the object of this study.
Every analysis of style or stylistic study has a checklist of features. The term features means a checklist of linguistic and stylistic categories that has four general heading for analyzing style in literary texts. There are lexical categories, grammatical categories, figure of speech, and context and cohesion (Leech and Short, 2007:61).
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Does the writer address the reader directly, or through the words or thoughts of
some fictional character? What attitude does the author imply towards his or her
subject?” (Leech and Short, 2007:61-64). In this study, the writer choose figure of speech as the stylistics categories for analyzing style of text in song lyric.
Figure of speech in analyzing style of texts asks about: Are there any cases of formal and structural repetition (anaphora, parallelism, etc.), Are there any phonological patterns of rhyme, alliteration, assonance, etc.? And the last that has close connection with meaning is Tropes. It deal with such deviations (although they can occur in everyday speech and writing) will often be the clue to special interpretations associated with traditional poetic figures of speech such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, paradox and irony. If such tropes occur, what kind of special interpretation is involved?
2.1.1 Figure of Speech
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Figure of speech might contain words and formulations that have some kind of extended or transferred meaning. As Christina (2003) said, “Tropes is a cover term from traditional rhetoric for language uses with some kind of
secondary meaning. In other words, the meaning of a trope has come about
through some obvious shift from a more basic type of understanding of a
language element”. Secondary meaning means that the meaning from a figure of speech is cannot be taken literally and it needs look to the context to discover the meaning. Not only the context, but also a sense of the real word must be put there. Since figurative language might contain secondary meaning, this is very important for verbal language as communication among people whatever what the language is (Cf Crystal (2001:116f & 1992:135); Wales (1990:468); Leech & Short (1981:78f, 81f, 139–144); Mooij (1976:3,6–7)).
Below such an example of figurative language, English functions well as a means of communication also within communities in other places on earth thathave different historical backgrounds and cultures.
(a) We sailed through the Channel.
(b) Some people seem just to sail through life.
The (b) example above shows that the predicative construction sail through something can also be used to convey a figurative sense. More specifically, the italicized part of (b) is a metaphor, and its figurative character is
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predication “sail through life” must be understood figuratively (Christina,
2003:15).
Another example of figurative language in Indonesian culture is when someone says to his friend that already has a future wife (couple), he likes to say “Dude, you must lock her before someone else get her”.‘Her’ (the girl) is not a
padlock that need to be locked. The word ‘lock’ in the example means that the
boy must make the girl to be a fiancée or soon marry her. Thus, in Islam religion another boy will not destroy their relationship.
2.1.1.1Kinds of Figure of Speech
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2.1.1.2More on Tropes
Tropes, which are to do with meaning variations in the use of lexemes and multi-word language constructions has many type:
1) Metaphor is the most widely recognized and discussed type of trope. In classical rhetoric, the term metaphor comes from the Greek meta
expressing ‘change’, and pherein meaning ‘to carry’. Metaphors thus
involve a ‘carrying across’ of meaning from characteristics of one object
to another one (Lazar, 2003:1). In other word, Metaphor is used as a means of comparing things that are essentially unlike. The comparison is not expressed but is created when a figurative term is substituted for or
indentified with the literal term. Metaphor was considered a deviant kind of language use, involving the breaking of basic rules within a language system. Example:
“There is something more cold than this weather, It is her attitude
toward me”
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“She is as sweet as honey.”
3) Personification is a figurative construction when it describes something that is not human as though it could feel, think, act, live, or die in the same way as people. In other word, it is giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept. Example:
“The sun always greet her every morning”
4) Oxymoron is a paradoxical combination of words or expressions with opposite, that is more or less straightforwardly antonymic senses, like
bitter-sweet, the sound of silence.An example:
“They seemed to be stuck in a love-hate relationship.”
5) Hyperbole is the term used for exaggeration in language. Occasionally the synonym overstatement is used instead. Hyperbole usually used for emphasize a statement. To make the reader/hearer really know the situation. Example:
Yours till the stars lose their glory
Yours till the birds fail to sing… (Parts of the lyrics of a popular English
song from the early forties, sung by Vera Lynn.)
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“It’s nothing, just a scratch”
7) Symbol may be roughly defined as something that means more than what it is. Or we can say symbolic language is the use of literal sense of words but they also associate to other conceptions. For instance, the color white
is often associated with innocence, purity, or non-aggressiveness or a form of surrender. Example:
“The instructor of a boxer throw the white towelto end the battle.”
8) Metonymy is the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant. The name of a place, for instance, can be metonymically used about the people who live there, or perhaps rather about a specific group of people who are especially associated with this place and the kinds of activities that it is mainly associated with. Example:
“There are no brownies left! They have eaten the whole box.”
“My father likes to listen to Queen”
9) Synecdoche is a meaning shift in the use of a lexeme—or a longer expression—within a part for the whole relationship. Examples of synecdoche seem usually to have a metonymic character as they appear to be grounded in the experience of contiguous extensional connections out in the world rather than in imaginative conceptual relations (Cf Johnson (1987:171,192f,209); Lakoff (1987:77–90). Example:
“Madridhas won the UEFA Chamipon League”
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incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs. Irony is an art of indirect expression or speech which means what is unsaid. In other word, it is saying the opposite of what you actually mean. In this study, Verbal Irony is discussed because is commonly used in everyday life. (JochenLuders 2013, a pdf) Example:
“After What you have done, you deserve a trophy”
Verbal Irony and Sarcasm,
Verbal irony is the use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says. Then Sarcasm is used to insult or to cause harm. Example of Sarcasm:
“You call this a work of art?”
2.1.1.3More on Schemes
Schemes involve rhythmic repetitions of phoneme sequences, syntactic constructions, or words with similar senses, and because of this they can be said to be echoic and have structuring character. They mean that formal qualities are fore-grounded in a stretch of language use, and since schematic repetitions will affect how people react to or even understand a verbal message, they can be said to be meaningful in their own way (Leech & Short, 1981:28,48–50,138–146,254). Simply says, repetitions of elements that are instead part of the formal expression side of a language have also been considered a kind of figure of speech. An example:
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy,
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Next character, usually schematic repetitions are aesthetically attractive, and they also help people to remember formulations or even longer textual passages. In addition, schemes also invest texts with poetic qualities. The kind of meaning that the occurrence of schemes can add to language products like single utterances or whole texts can thus will be called poetic (Christina, 2013:176). This characterization agrees with Roman Jakobson’s suggestion that language in which the form is made prominent and meaningful in itself has a specific poetic function (1996:15ff).
Some phonological schemes are:
1) Alliteration also called initial rhyme, and it means that an initial consonant or consonant cluster is repeated in two or more words in a stretch of language (Christina, 2013:176). Or simply alliteration is a repetition of the same initial consonant.Example:
“No one would dare to harm a hair of his head”
The repetition of a vowel or a vowel plus one or more consonants at the end of words is called end rhyme. It is especially found at the end of lines in poetry. Example:
And now I wander in the woods
When summer gluts the golden bees,
Or in autumnal solitudes
Arise the leopard-coloured trees;
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2) Assonances the repetition of the same, usually stressed vowel inside words or at the beginning of words, not always as noticeable. Example:
itsy bitsyteeny weeny (yellow polka dot) bikini.
(the lyrics of a popular song from the fifties)
And, Consonance, the reoccurrence of a consonant inside or at the end of words, is commonly even less noticeable and contrived (Christina, 2003: 177-178).
2.2 Semantics
As Leech and Short said in their book Style in Fiction, when figure of speech found out in a style of literary texts, what kind of special interpretation is conveyed? Then when something that related to meaning, Semantics can deals with it. Semantics is one of the branches of linguistics that concerned to study of meaning.
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and Thematic meaning deals with the way in which the message is organized in terms of order and emphasis (Leech, 1981: 23).
Figure of speech is a language that cannot be taken literally since it is a way to saying something other than ordinary way. Figures of speech not only decorate poetry and add the poetic function but they also convey connotative meanings and have deeper meaning. Or we can say, figure of speech usually contains words that have kind of extended or secondary meaning. Thus, for discover the meaning of figure of speech the writer uses connotative meaning from Leech’s book The Study of Meaning.
2.2.1 Connotative Meaning
Figure of speech do not only decorate poems and give them with aesthetic value, they also convey connotative meanings and produce certain special effects, which enrich the texts and make their meanings more preciseand concrete. According to Balogun (1996), this fact explains why, in poetry, “…we predominantly look beyond the ordinary denotative meaning of
the language to its connotative or implied meaning” (Yeibo, 2012:349).
It is not appropriate if the writer use conceptual meaning (denotative) for analyzing the meaning of figure of speech. For example the word woman, it denotes three properties ‘human’, ‘adult’, and ‘female’. Those properties are
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when he upset”. It does not mean that ‘he’ has a body shaped like a woman, but it means, he is so sensitive when he upset about something.
Another example, the word home , for instance, by denotation means only a place where one lives, but by connotation it suggest security, love, comfort, and family. The words childlike and childishboth mean “characteristc
of a child”, but childlike suggests meekness, innocence, and wide-eyed
wonder, whereas childish suggests pettiness, willfullness, and temper tantrums.That is why connotation is important to analyze a meaning in poetry or in this case, a song lyric.
In addition, Leech (1981:13) explain, “It will be clear that in talking about connotation, I am in fact talking about ‘the real word’ experience one
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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter presents the research design, research instrument, data, data sources, data collection, and data analysis.
3.1 Research Design
In conducting this study, the writer uses descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data that indicated to figure of speech of Three Eyes, Nose, Lips, song. One of the main features of qualitative research is an interest in meanings, perspective and understandings. The outcome goal of the qualitative research that focuses in textual analysis is discovering meanings and then interpreting the data (Vanderstoep and Johnston, 2009:210). This research tends to analyze the type of figure of speech and try to discover meanings of the song from the figure of speech found.
To do descriptive analysis, the data are displayed carefully and well-structured. This will help the reader to follow the way the writer analyze the data. As in Creswell (2014:247), during data analysis in qualitative research, the data organizes categorically and chronologically, and reviews repeatedly.
This study is textual analysis, Vanderstoep and Johnston (2009:210) said, “textual analysis involves the identification and interpretation of a set of verbal
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3.2 Instrument
Since this research is qualitative method, then the question is ‘What Instrument Is Used to Collect Data?’ Lincoln and Guba strongly advocate that the best instrument for qualitative naturalistic inquiry is the human (Lincoln and Guba (1981) in Creswell, 2014:188). So, the main instrument of this research is the researcher himself who act as an interpreter, collector, listener, analyst and reporter of the findings and discussions.
Since this research is textual analysis, the researcher is the interpreter of the selected text or texts. According to the assumptions of textual analysis, there are an infinite number of possible interpretations of any given text and each interpretation is equally valid to the extent that it reflects the meanings attributed
to the text by the interpreter. Therefore, the researcher’s interpretation is the only one of many possible valid interpretations of a given text. In textual analysis, the researcher rarely seeks other’s interpretations; the researcher’s own interpretation is salient. (Vanderstoep and Johnston, 2009: p.211)
All the activities are done by the personal computer, internet and office software. Any information from internet that related and support in conducting this research was collected by personal computer. So, personal computer is the most helpful instrument after the main instrument itself.
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3.3 Data and Data Source
According to Mukhtar (2013:99), Data source is any sources that might be needed for the writer to collect information for a study. And, Data is the empiric information as a support in the scientific and academic research (2013:107). Then, the data of this study are all words, phrases, sentences and expression that indicate and have figure of speech. The writer will scan the three Eyes, Nose, Lips songs lyric. The writer takes the music video of the three different versions of the songs from YouTube to avoid an illegal mp3 download. In collecting the translation lyric only for the original version, the writer used browser and used Google search engine to find the lyric. The writer just copy and paste the lyric from the most visited Kpop translation lyric website named www.kpoplyrics.netto the Microsoft Word.
So, the data source of this study is three songs, the first is the original song by Taeyang which is English translated lyric,
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then the cover rap version by Tablo,
and the last is a cover, women version by LydiaPaek.
3.4 Data Collection
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explained above. The data collection steps in this study are collecting information through structured steps, as well as establishing the protocol for recording information is made by the researcher. It will be explained in the data analysis step (Creswell, 2014).
3.5 Data Analysis
After collecting the data, the writer has done several steps to analyze the data. The writer used data analysis model from Miles and Huberman (1990), it is flow model analysis. There are collecting data or the writer can say (identifying), data reduction (classifying), display data (interpreting) and drawing conclusion.
1. Identifying the data of the “Eyes, Nose, Lips” song lyric
The writer done several steps to identifies the data:
1. To make an easy scanning, the writer gave a code to each Version of the song; V1, V2 and V3.
2. And the writer gave numbers besides the line of the lyric.
3. The writer needs to read all three versions of the songs to make a temporary understanding of the song about.
4. Then the writer detected the words, phrase and sentences that might indicate or contains figure of speech,
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The writer identified all expression that might contain kinds of figure of speech. Since there are many kinds of figure of speech, the writer code the data in order to make an easy classifying and help the reader to easily read the data. As stated in (Creswell, 2014) Coding is the process of organizing the data by bracketing chunks (or text or image segments) and writing a word representing a category in the margins (Rossman & Rallis, 2012). These are rules for coding the data:
a. Metaphor = Met b. Simile = Sim
c. Personification = Pfi d. Oxymoron = Oxy e. Hyperbole = Hyp f. Understatement = Ust
g. Symbol = Sym h. Metonymy = Mny i. Synecdoche = Syd j. Irony = Iny
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The following of data coding will be as follow: (V1, 10/ Pfi), it means found in the 1st version of the song, line 10 and the kinds of figure of speech is
Personification.
2. Classifying kinds of figure of speech
The writer classifies the kinds of figure of speech in a form of table. The writer classifies it based on Christina theory. This step will answer question number one.
Kinds of figure of speech (Code) Data Frequency
1. Met (V1,5), .. ,(V2,7) 9
2. Sim (V2,4), .. ,(V3,9) 5
3. Pfi … …
4. Hyp … …
TOTAL 14
3. Interpreting the data
From the findings, then the meaning of each figure of speech found will be interpreted by the writer starts from the first Version of the song. First, the writer discovered the meaning of all expressions found. Each expression is described in one paragraph. Second, move to another figure of speech in the second version of the song, these two activities is repeated until the last version of the song.
Sample: Metaphor
1. “There is something more cold than this weather, It is her attitude
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Interpretation:
In the expression above, the phrase her attitude and the word cold is compared. The literal term is her attitude and the figurative term, cold, is implied. In utterance above, we can conclude that ‘her attitude is more cold’. But ‘attitude’ is an abstract thing that we can’t touch. It seems
doesn’t make sense if only use denotation meaning in interpreting this
figurative language. The word cold is a substitued word. The figurative meaning is ‘her attitude towards me is not good or rude’. Not good or
rude here is substitued with cold.
In discussion the meaning, the writer use theory from Leech’s book
connotative meaning. This step answered question number two. Interpreting all figures of speech in each version of the song until the writer can tell and deduce the different from all three different lyric is the final result.
4. Drawing Conclusion
After the writer done with finding and discussion, the kinds of figure of speech that occurred and mostly used in those three “Eyes, Nose, Lips” will be
known. Also, kind of trope that most contribute in conveying meaning will be known. The last, the meaning from each of those three different lyric will be shown. The writer will draw conclusion from all those point.
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CHAPTER IV
FINDING AND DISCUSSION
This chapter deals with the research finding and the discussion about the research questions that formulated in chapter one.
4.1. Finding
The writer focused on analyzing the data, which has been collected, that is the expression might contain figure of speech from the three different lyrics. First, the writer analyzes the kind of figure of speech in Eyes, Nose, Lips lyric based on Christina theory. The writer also gives the explanation why the related expression called (for instance) metaphor. But, before the explanation of each expression is delivered, all findings about figure of speech will be classified in the form of a table.
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4.1.1 Kind of Figure of Speech in Eyes, Nose, Lips songs
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4.1.2 Meaning Figure of speech found in Eyes, Nose, Lips songs
Before the writer deliver the findings, the writer makes a temporary understanding about what the meaning of the all version of the song is. The songs are tells about the lover who broke up with his/her ex and still longing for his/her ex. Now, let us try to look closer to the meaning of the song from figure of speech found.
4.1.2.1 Version 1: Eyes, Nose, Lips original by Taeyang
Datum 1 (V1,3/Mny) and Datum 2 (V1,4/Pfi)
With your pretty red lips, Please hurry, kill me and go
The phrase pretty red lips is called a metonymy. In this sense, it is related to something other. Lips actually mean something that uttered by the girl, it is the farewell utterance from the girl that makes the boy feels restless. That is why it said, hurry, just kill me and go with your pretty red lips. It answers a question why the word written with plural form lips not lip.
Then, the two lines above combined “With your pretty red lips please hurry, kill me and go”, it becomes form a figure of speech called Personification.
The phrase pretty red lips has human attribute of kill and go. The author is personifying an object. Something that makes the boy felt killed is the red lips. This is also has hyperbole sense. The last farewell from the girl really makes the boy restless, as a result, the boy said “With your pretty red lips please hurry, kill
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Datum 3 (V1,5/Ust)
please hurry, kill me and go. I’m all right.
The expression “I’m all right” is truly a figure of speech. After saying all
just kill me and go, it is obviously that the boy is not all right at all. This expression is what we call Understatement. It seems ironic after asking just kill me, then he say I’m okay. The secondary meaning of this expression is he is not
okay. He just talks figuratively to lessen the things being talked about. He just wants to hide his pain although in fact he is in pain after broke up with her girl.
Datum 4 (V1,7/Sim)
Look at me one last time Smile like nothing’s wrong
In expression above, smile is described and compared with nothing is wrong. This trope is called Simile. It compares things that basically unlike, suggesting similarities between them, although they are also clearly different. Usually when people smile, it means something good is happen. That is why the speaker/ the boy said to her ex, “smile like nothing’s wrong”. While actually, if
we combine two sentences above, it has ironic sense that means something is really gone wrong after their broke up. It makes the boy restless.
Datum 5 (V1,10/Pfi) & Datum 6 (V1,11/Pfi)
My selfishness that couldn’t let you go
turned into an obsession that imprisoned you.
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what we called a Personification. The speaker is the boy who felt that his selfishness and his obsession are the cause of his broke up. His selfishness that could not let the girl to go and his obsession that imprisoned the girl are the problem.
Datum 7 (V1,14/Hyp)
Why am I a fool, why can’t I forget you. You’re already gone.
Hyperbole is a trope that used for exaggeration in language. The boy has problem in forgetting his ex. The expression shows that it is hard to forget her ex because the boy still can’t receive what is happened to him. His ex was already
gone but he is still longing for her. He calls himself a fool. Why he can’t forget her. The word fool is used to make an exaggeration sense. That is what we call figure of speech.
Datum 8 (V1,16/Syd)
Your eyes, nose, lips
Your touch that used to touch me, to the ends of your fingertips.
Now it comes to the refrain of the song. It started with the title of the song “Eyes, Nose, Lips”. They have another meaning beside the real part of the face. They mean his ex’s face that was cares and look after the boy before. It is eyes,
nose, lips that the boy used to know. Eyes, Nose, Lips are part of the face that easily remember and always have memories. The use of lexeme Eyes, Nose, Lips
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Datum 9 (V1,20/Sim)
I can still feel you
but like a burnt out flame burnt and destroyed all of our love
Another Simile is expressed in expression above. The boy described his feeling toward his ex with a flame. Acknowledged, flame will burn everything that in front of it. It also hurts everyone who touches a flame. Then, the secondary meaning of the figure of speech is, since the boy cannot forget and longing for his ex, he can still feel her. But the more he feels about her ex, the more it feels hurt like when someone touches a flame. It likes a burnt out flame, burnt and destroyed all of their love and destroy their memories. Lovers will feels hurt when they breaking up.
Datum 10 (V1,27/Met)
Everyday I grow restless,
Everything about you is becoming faint
The expression above I grow (complement) has the sense of metaphor. The meaning of the verb grow has been widened to represent a moregeneral notion. We know basically and literally the use of verb grow is only appropriate in the sentences such as; She grew up to be a teacher, intransitive form or I grow a plant in my garden, with an object. But in this occasion, the verb grow followed by restless. The author didn’t say “I became restless”. But, he said “Everyday I grow restless”. Restless is not like body or a plant that can physically bigger or
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restlessness is become more and more because every day about her ex is becoming faint.
Datum 11, 12, 13 (V1,45; V1,46; V1,47 / Syd)
Your black eyes that only saw me Your nose that held the sweetest breath Your lips that whispered ‘i love you, i love
Another synecdoche is found in those three expressions. It explains more about Eyes, Nose, Lips in the previous expression that found earlier. The author makes the title of this song based on those three parts of the face (eyes, nose, lips) because each part Eyes then Nose and Lips are have something to remember for the boy who still longing for his ex. Like what expressed above, the girl’s black
eyes that only saw the boy, her nose that always breathe. Even the boy called it the sweetest breath, knowing that the girl is live for him before break up. Then her lips, the lips that always tell him, whisper him “I love you, I love you”. Those
were only happened in the past. Now it is all gone and it is just called memories. The boy is longing for his ex’s image and memories from his ex.
4.1.2.2 Version 2: Eyes, Nose, Lips rap version by Tablo
Datum 14 (V2,1/Hyp)
you left me paralyzed, no cure, no rehab for me
The author of this song opens the “Eyes, Nose, Lips” rap version with
figure of speech. Exaggeration found in the expression above. An exaggeration in language is called Hyperbole. Hyperbole in lyric sometimes is intended to show how the speaker’s feels is. Thus, the meaning of figure of speech above is tell
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There are three words that show the expression above is hyperbole. First, it is
paralyzed. The girl left the boy paralyzed, it means her absence, her leaving makes the boy unable to act and unable to move on. Even, the second and the last word appear to make more exaggeration. It said no cure, no rehab for the boy.
Datum 15 (V2,2/Iny)
funny that you got the nerve to keep asking me how I’ve been
Continued in second line of the lyric of the song, the boy still uses some exaggeration. But, in the expression above the exaggeration is in form of irony. The speaker (the boy) uses the word funny. This is a verbal irony. The boy said that his ex is kind of funny while actually the boy is angry to his ex. After leaving him, the girl still got the nerve or we can say worry to keep asking the boy How he have been after her absence (What the?). This kind of irony is called Sarcasm. The boy says something that can harm the hearer. He said “funny that you got the
nerve to keep asking”, while actually the boy means “how could you? You are
kind of stupid”. Its expression filled with hated.
Datum 16 (V2,4/Met & Iny)
you’re the victor in this pageantry
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relationship was substituted for pageantry. Thus, we can discover the secondary meaning of the figure of speech. “You are the victor in this pageantry” means the
boy said that his ex who made him paralyzed is the winner in this love-story-like show. While indirectly he stated he is a loser who cannot move on.
Datum 17 (V2,5 /Met & Iny)
but the only trophy you deserve, catastrophe
We found another metaphor sense. Metaphor is not only a direct way such as “Time is money”. It also can express in indirect way like the previous line. The
word catastrophe is has the same meaning like disaster. But in this case, the connotation of catastrophe does not mean natural and ecological disaster. Catastrophe in this lyric means an event that causes very great trouble or destruction. Trouble and destruction in their relationship is what actually meant.
The boy said that the girl is the victor and she deserves the only trophy that called catastrophe (a trouble and destruction for their relationship). The expression above completely is a sarcasm verbal irony. The boy said that expression with the mocking sense. The word trophy is actually means something else. It is more similar with a cause, an effect. So the effect is a trouble for their relationship that in form of hatred which the girl deserves.
Datum 18 (V2,6 /Hyp & Iny)
i’d rather we be dead to each other
Hyperbole still continuing while he saidhe had rather dead to each other. It
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sense. The boy seems rude saying that rather we be dead to each other. Because it has irony, he actually already experienced the love-hate-unknown each other. He experienced that feel. It is too late to do dead each other.
Datum 19 (V2,7/Hyp)
no eulogies said for each other
Eulogy is a speech or writing containing praise especially for someone who already recently died. After the boy said “would rather we dead to each other”, he said the hyperbolic expression again. He wants just dead each other and
no farewell, no praise or good speech, poem (eulogies) said for us.
Datum 20 (V2,8 /Hyp & Iny)
no “rest in peace”s
The last saying about what he wish after said rather we be dead, is hyperbolic once again. It says “no rest in peace”. Actually, all people wish rest in
peace to people who just died. But, his hyperbolic says actually has an irony. Why it has ironic sense? Because, the boy feels no in peace and he is still mad about this breakup. So, he wishes his ex too. Why not just “dead each other, no
eulogies, and no rest in peace?” The hyperbolic says from the boy is also has
sarcasm sense.
Datum 21 (V2,9/Hyp)
the memories got my chest in pieces
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the boy’s mind. It makes his chest / heart in pieces, chest in pieces like a made of
glass. The boy expressed it in kind of hyperbolic.
Datum 22, 23 & 24 (V2,10;V2,13;V2,14 / Syd)
I’m praying that your eyes are the first to go the way they looked when you smiled the way they opened and closed
andyour nose, every single breath against my neck and thenyour lips, every empty promise made and said
We come to the part that perhaps explains why this song entitled Eyes, Nose, Lips. The word eyes above are explained clearly by the speaker. Eyes what the speaker means is his ex’s eyes that used to looked him when she smiled, the
way it used to be when she opened and closed. The use of word eyes that refers to
image of the girl is synecdoche. Her eyes that unforgettable for the boy, it makes the boy wish and praying that her eyes are the first to go. The boy thinks the lovable parts of her (eyes, nose, lips) now become the most hateful parts.
The second word that represents the image of the girl that the boy always remembers is nose. The expression that explains about the girl’s nose also has
hyperbolic sense. He called the girl’s breath can harm him, “every single breath
against his neck”. The existence of the girl’s breath is not needed by him after
breakup.
Then the lips are the next to go, because the boy remembered about his ex’s promise that comes to nothing. All he got now is a breakup. So that is why he
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Datum 25 (V2,17/Met)
please fade, fade to black please fade, fade to black but the nightmares come back
Then, the boy said about nightmares. The boy said it with metaphor.
Nightmaresin this lyric mean all the old memories that he has experienced with his ex still haunting him down. So the all memories that he experienced is identified with nightmares. That is what he means by, please fade to black, please go away the memories about you, your eyes, nose and lips. But ironically it comes back.
Datum 26 (V2,18/Syd) & Datum 27 (V2,20/Hyp)
because your eyes, nose, lips every look and every breath every kiss still got me dying uh, still got me crying
The reason why the boy wants the memories (nightmares) fade and goes away is explained in the refrain of the song. The use of synecdoche eyes, nose, lips is appeared again. Eyes that mean every look from the girl, nose that means every breath from her and lips that means every kiss from her are the image of the girl which is still haunting him down.
The boy said that with a hyperbole. The memories that haunt him still got him dying and got him crying. Even the refrain of this song is repeated twice like what he said in previous, “please fade to black” is repeated. It means the boy
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Datum 28 (V2,26/Met) & Datum 29 (V2,27/Met)
forget a promenade, let’s juggernaut, down memory lane, leave no thought alive
After the refrain, there are still many figures of speech in second verses of the song. It is really hard to hard understand figure of speech in this second verses since it is full of metaphoric and hyperbolic sense. Beside, denotative meaning will be useless in discovering the meaning of the verse.
In line 26, the word promenade means a path or a way for walking on.Usually this word is used for people who stroll along together for relaxation and pleasure. Then, the word juggernaut means a very large heavy truck that cannot be stopped. It stated, “forget a promenade, let’s juggernaut, down memory
lane, leave no thought alive”, after the boy talked about a path that for strolling, he
said let’s juggernaut. It means that he wanted to destroy the beautiful path that he
usually used. The boy expressed it metaphorically.
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Datum 30 (V2,28/Hyp) & Datum 31 (V2,29/Met)
to the slaughterhouse, i’m taking my pain time to sever my brain from my heart and soul
The verse still talks about memories that the boy cannot forget. He expressed it again with some hyperbolic sense this time. He said to the slaughterhouse to taking his pain. Meanwhile, slaughterhouse is a place where animals are killed for their meat. Perhaps since he were haunted by memories and felt so painful he feels he is like an animal that killed for a meat into pieces in a slaughterhouse. This is also a metaphor, the boy is an animal that taking pain in slaughterhouse
In the next line, he expressed “time to sever my brain from my heart and
soul”. The word sever mean to break or separate something by cutting. The boy
really exaggerates a lot this one. He feels his pain is like severing his brain, his heart and his soul into pieces.
Datum 32 (V2,30/Met)
my knees are burning hot, but God is cold
This 30th line in second verse is fully has metaphor. The boy said “my knees are burning hot” which is means he is praying. Normally, when someone
pray, he/she is kneel down. So, praying was substituted for knees. Why he said his knees are burning hot? Because he is pray (kneel) many times and so long. But then he said “God is cold”, cold connotatively means indifferent or not to care. So,
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Datum 33 (V2,33/Mny)
after the show, it’s only hell that it brings
There are two metonymy are used in the line. The word “show” and “hell” are referred to something else. Show connotatively means the lovers relationship, love and loving and everything they did (previously explained in datum 16, pageantry). Then, hell means an extremely unpleasant situation or experience. All in all, after everything the lovers did and then comes to breakup, the thing that remains is only unpleasant feeling or hatred.
Datum 34 (V2,34/Met) & Datum 35 (V2,35/Met)
so take it slow and let time heal everything
they say that time flies, but you keep breaking its wings
The boy here expressed his feeling with a common phrase that uses metaphor. The phrase “time heals everything” has metaphor sense. As we know in love dictionary in teenagers, they always say “as the time goes, your pain will be healed”. The teenagers believe in notion, “time is a healing tool for relationship
problems”. That is why in this lyric the boy compares healing tool with time, and
the word time is identified with healing tool. The boy tries to calm down, and let time heal the pain that he got from his breakup.
But, something ironicis happen in the next line. The next line also provides a metaphor sentence. The boy compares time with a creature that has wings and it can fly (let us say a bird). The word flies identified with bird. But, when the boy too believes in notion “time heals everything”, then he found the bird’s wing is broken. It means that, in the boy’s world, time is freezing, not even move, and he
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the girl since the girl keeps breaking the wings of the time. Why the girl accused to be the one who break the wings? Because the memories of her eyes, nose, lips are still haunting him down. Even the boy said in line 36, “you’ll never fade, fade
to black”, the nightmares still come back. That is the ironic sense and the boy expressed it with metaphor.
Datum 36 (V2,58/Hyp)
because your eyes, nose, lips every look and every breath every kiss still got me dying uh, still got me crying
the tears drive me out of my mind
In the last refrain, the boy expressed his feeling again that he is suffer from the shadow of the girl until he crying, even his tears make him go insane. This sense has hyperbolic sense. The tears from the boy makes this expression has hyperbolic sense. Maybe, some will say the boy is exaggerating, but that is what the boy felt.
4.1.2.3 Version 3: Eyes, Nose, Lips cover woman version by Lydia Paek
Since the speaker/singer of this English version of the song is a woman, the lyric will be shown from the perspective the girl who felt betrayed.
Datum 37 (V3,5/Met)
Then I ’ll really let you go And you’ll never seeme so, Just stop wasting my time
The first figure of speech found in this version is metaphor. The phrase
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money”. Money is a valuable and precious thing that we need to spend them
wisely and there are used for accomplishing our goals. Time is also a precious thing that must be managed well. People need to spend both time and money wisely and do not waste them. That is why in the phrase “wasting time”, the word
money is substituted for time. Because time is as valuable as money.
Then, let us relate the metaphor with the love case in the song. The girl express to the boy to not wasting her time again. Because the girl wants to let the boy go and the boy will never see her. She does not want to waste her time with seeing and thinking about the boy who has ever loved her and now he betrayed and hurt her.
Datum 38 (V3,7 / Mny & Sym)
I ’ll never come around you again no more This will be the end now just shut the door
This line has two phrases that have figurative sense; they are the end and
shut the door. The phrase the end is a metonymy. It means the girl wants an end of her relationship with her boyfriend but it does not mean the end of her life. Then, after a metonymy shows up and followed by the phrase shut the door, it is not representing as a mere metonymy. But the phrase shut the door is a symbolic language. Why symbol? In our culture, in Indonesia if we talk about love-story in
teenagers, while those phrase such as open the door, shut the door appear in conversation, people all know that they are a symbolic language that means something more.
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the boy again.But, it is less appropriate. Close-shut the door in love context means close and open the heart or in other words, she/he not letting or letting someone to come in his/her life. Make someone fill his/her heart and completely let him/her in. Or make someone cannot go further to know his/her life. When the girl in the lyric says shut the door, and then she will ignore and not let his boyfriend come again.
Datum 39 (V3,9/Hyp) & Datum 40 (V3,10/Hyp)
But you’ll miss me everyday So hurt in every way
It will probably make you wanna go and drive yourself insane
In these three lines, it shows what the girl feels. She knows that his boy is betrayed her but she still love him actually. She confidently says that his boy will miss her everyday. While actually she misses his boy she also hates him in the same time. “How could he hurt me?” she expressed with hyperbole. She use
phrases such as; every way and drive yourself insane.
Datum 41 (V3,11/Met)
You could’ve had it all but you broke my heart
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her feeling that her heart is broken like a glass that broken into pieces. We can say, people’s heart is like a made of glass that can easily be broken.
Datum 42, 43, 44 (V3,12; V3,16; V3,17 / Mny)
And now I gotta do what I do
You know you always bring out the best in me But you played me for a fool around the boy and stay close, she cannot do that again, she must leave the boy.
Datum 45 (V3,19/Pfi) &Datum 46 (V3,20/Mny)
And your eyes nose lips
It haunts my memory I can’t forget you if I tried I wanna believe in your lies
Refrain of the song is greeting the reader. In the refrain that repeats two times, personification, metonymy, hyperbole and simile were found. In line 19, the word it refers to eyes, nose, lips. The speaker gives human attribute to them so they can do something what human does. The boy’s eyes, nose and lips haunts the girl’s memory and she cannot forget even if she tried. Then the next line, the girl
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Datum 47 (V3,22/Hyp) & Datum 48 (V3,23/Sim)
And your eyes nose lips
It haunts my memory I can’t forget you if I died Feels like I’ m losing my mind
In the repetition, the girl expresses with hyperbole. She said that though she died she cannot forget the boy. The phrase if I diedmakes the line sounds hyperbolic. From the hyperbole we can say that the girl is really suffering from the memory that she want to forget. Then, the next she is using simile. Her suffers while she haunted by the memory of his ex make she feels like crazy. She compares it using a simile (the use of word like). Her feeling now is like a feeling that losing her mind.
Datum 49 (V3,26/Mny)
No more sitting home alone Or waiting for your phone call
Another metonymy is found. The phrase sitting home alone that expressed by the girl is related to something else. It means more than a mere sitting down. It means the girl is facing emptiness, silent sit and does not know what to do. Then, the next line explains that she silently expect and waiting the boy. Whether the boy will phone or come to her.
Datum 50 (V3,29/Mny)
Now you can go look for that girl next door Cause you ain’t the one I can call my own
Continuing metonymy found again. She seems know who is another girl that makes her dumped by his boy. But she only said, “that girl next door”. We
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girl who hurt). Even, it looks like a neighbor. Slightly, she tries to let him go even she is hurt.
Datum 51 (V3,37/Sim)
You don’t even know you had the best in me Now who looks like a fool
She said, “Now who looks like a fool”. It is a simile. Comparing someone
behavior after break up with a fool. She now dares to bet who looks like a fool after the boy choose other girl than her. She herself or the boy who left her in suffers.
Datum 52 (V3,49/Iny)
Thought that I’d be okay
If I never have to see your face again
At the bridge of the song near the end, we can know that the girl face an irony in her story. She thought that she will be okay if she never has to see his ex
face again. Meanwhile, in fact though she does not see his ex face, she still cannot forget the good memories with his boyfriend.
4.2 Discussion
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straightforward repetitions of single or complex forms in language strings called
schemes are also found, but the writer delivered it in discussions, not in findings. After the writer describes all tropes in all three versions of Eyes, Nose Lips
song, the writer can tell that these three songs are about breakup, a boy/girl who left by his/her lover. Then, from the findings, the writer describes that each version of the song has own characteristics from the figure of speech perspective and the meaning of the song.
First, the original version of Eyes, Nose Lips by Taeyang has simple lyric. The writer found thirteen expressions that indicate as tropes. The songwriter of the original version is Taeyang as the singer itself and he got helped from Teddy who work as a record producer in YG Entertainment. Taeyang ever told that the inspiration of the song is come from his love experience. He said it when he on a “Sketchbook” talk show. He said, “I fell in love and dated someone.
That’s how the title song ‘Eye, Nose, Lips’ came out. I had this girl that I loved,
but it didn’t really work out. It really hurt after we broke up and I was longing for
her, especially the image of her.” From what the writer analyzed, Taeyang describes her image romantically in the bridge part of the song. Taeyang expressed in line 48, 49, and 50. The writer concludes this lyric is kind of romantic lyric. It has expressions such as in line 3, 4, 8, 9, 16, and 17.
