AN ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR IN SONG’S LYRIC’S MUSIC THESPHERES BY COLDPLAY

VINA, MONIKA (2023) AN ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR IN SONG’S LYRIC’S MUSIC THESPHERES BY COLDPLAY. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In literature, there are several models of literary works, one of them being song lyrics. Lyric is a kind of literature for emotional expression by using the beautiful word. This research aimed to analyze the kinds of metaphors used in Coldplay song lyrics and to describe the contextual meaning of each lyric that had been found. This research used a descriptive qualitative method to measure the type of metaphor by using Lakoff and Jhonson's theory. The data and data sources of this research used song lyrics, the instrument that was library research the data from the lyrics of the songs. Based on the data finding it can be concluded that from Coldplay’s selected song lyrics, people of pride, humankind, let somebody go, higher power, my universe, coloratura song lyrics. The result of this research from the tabulated data analysis, it is shown that the most metaphor found in Coldplay's selected song lyrics is an Ontological metaphor. Ontological metaphor becomes the frequent type that is used by the songwriter in Coldplay songs because most ontological metaphors in which one concept is understood and expressed in terms of another are structured. Key word: Coldplay, Metaphor, The Spheres

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