The word brother means a man or boy having the same parents as another person or a man who is united with others by belonging to the same
group, society, profession.
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That word gives description about the situation among people before separation where they live in neighbours then,
immediately removed by the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall German: Berliner Mauer was a barrier separating
West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany. The longer “inner German border” demarcated the remainder of the East-West German border
between the two states. Both borders were part of the Iron Curtain. The wall separated East Berlin and West Berlin for 28 years, from the
day construction began on August 13, 1961 until it was dismantled in 1989. During this period at least 133 people were confirmed killed trying to cross
the Wall into West Berlin, according to official figures. However, a prominent victims group claims that more than 200 people had been killed trying to flee
from East to West Berlin. The speaker also uses the simile in the lines 27-30 of Wind of Change
“...The wind of change blows straight Into the face of time like a storm wind that will ring the freedom bell for peace of mind….”
Here the speaker describes the alteration or change is like storm wind that rings the freedom
bell for peace of mind. Wind of Change is a description of alteration or change that is compared with storm wind.
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Jonathan Crowther, op. cit., p. 554.
2 Personification
Personification that is consists in giving the attributes of human being to an animal, an object, or a concept
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appears in the end lines of the lyric “
…storm wind that will ring the freedom bell for peace of mind.” Here the speaker attributes the human characteristic through the phrase storm wind. He
personifies the human character on this word that can ring the the freedom bell for peace of mind.
The speaker makes uses the personification in the last line of this lyric “let your balalaika sing”
and “what my guitar wants to say.” The speaker personifies the attribute of human character on balalaika and guitar that both
are the inanimate object music instrument can sing and say like human.
3 Apostrophe
Closely related to personification is apostrophe, aphostrope consisting in addresing someone absent or dead or something non human as if that
person or thing were present and alive and could reply to what is being said
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emerges in the first line of Wind of Change, the speaker apostrophizes the
wind of change s uch as a person and living creaturer that could be heart by the
soldiers passing by listening to the wind of change related to the breaking of Berlin Wall’s news.
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Perrine, loc. cit., p. 64.
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Ibid. p. 65.
4 Symbol
The word balalaika in line“…let your balalaika sing” is a national instrument of Russia, originating from the Tatar domra, a fretted instrument
similar to a guitar, the balalaika is usually three stringed, with a triangular sounding board and a finger board made in six sizes to form a complete
family, the balalaika rages in size from its counterpart, the traditional guitar, up to huge models resting on the floor. Almond shaped holes on the surface of
the sounding board. Tending concentrically to form a star or a circle, resemble somewhat the S’s on the sound box of the violin. Two strings are tuned
unison, usually at c and the third string is tuned at a, while the word guitar in the following line “what my guitar wants to say” is an instrument too.
Both of these words balalaika and guitar are the instruments that give pleasure situation to people through the sounded tone. They symbolize the
freedom of the world in which everybody can sing, say and share each other. 5
Allusion
In the first line of the quotation of this lyric, the speaker uses allusion to describes their journey to Moscow that could be simplified within the line
“I follow the Moskva down to Gorky Park Listening to the wind of change…”
The wind of change here symbolize the news of the breaking of Berlin Wall.
4. Under the Same Sun Analysis
a Explication
Under the Same Sun is written as reaction against the Cold War in
Germany; Germany to be West Germany supported by USA, England and French and East Germany by Soviet union.
The war situation could be seen from line 13 – 18 of this lyric. “I saw the evening fading shadows one by one we watch the lamb, lay down to the
sacrifice I saw the childre the children of the sun how they wept, how they bled, how they died.”
This stanza explicates about the dibble of evening, we watch the lamb, lay down to the sacrifice and he persona I saw the children how they
wept, how they bled, how they died. While, in the previous line, the word morning
emerges in line “” that refers to the pleasure and freshness that is suddently shattered by gun, weeping, scream, and view of victim who falls, a
mother who pray for her son. Something paradox emerges in lines “…Do you ever ask your self is
there a heaven in the sky why can’t we get it right cause we all live under the same sun We all walk under the same moon then why, why cant we live as
one …” Here the speaker uses the word heaven within the paradox lines to
symbolize a place believed to be the home god and good people, and it also symbolizes a place or state very quiet happiness but why we can not live in peace
beneath like the serene life in the heaven.
This lyric will be analyzed in this research by analyzing the imagery and figure of speech found to support the massages.
b Imagery
Analysis
Visual imagery and auditory imagery appears all at once in this stanza. In the first line of this lyric, the speaker emerges the sight effect to the reader about
the morning that is immediately shattered by a gun. The auditory imagery joins with the frightened scream reverberated in the whole of worlds.
The shooting of the gun shatters the beauteous morning seen in line “I saw the morning …it was shattered by a gun heard a scream, saw him fall, no
one cried… .” Here is a description of frightened screams of victims and scornful
of society. In those wildness and savagery situations, the speaker saw everyone victimized, felt and no one cried. Here is a description about indifferent of war
wildness and debauchery. The
line “…I saw a mothe she was praying for her son…” brings the
reader to the sight effect where the speaker persona I sees the morning shattered by gun and a mother who is praying for her son. In a strain tone, the mother said
“. ..bring him back, let him live don’t let him die…” an expectation and prayer of
mother for his son’s life sake. In the line 14 - 15, the speaker uses visual imagery. This is closely related
to the first line, but, slightly different in using the word morning for the former and evening for the later. Here, the speaker visualizes the evening fading shadow
one by one. The portrait that is described in the first stanza refers to something happens in the further line of this lyric “I saw the evening We watch the lamb, lay
down to the sacrifice I saw the children the children of the sun how they wept, how they bled, how they died… .”
The speaker visualizes the sight effect to the readers.
In the end of the lyric above, the readers pass the nature situation of peaceful village without war, but the sequel of this statement immediately
describes the war situation so that all children are hoped to be the future generation who will struggle for the country have to weep loosing their family
and something they have.
c Figure of Speech Analysis 1
Hyperbole
The hyperbole situation appears in the following statement “…sometimes I think I’m going mad…”
The speaker said that he is acts as though he is mad. The hyperbole that is defined as a statement is made
emphatic by overstatement appears in “…sometimes I think I’m going mad were loosing all we had and no one seems to care
...
” The speaker describes the
line of anguish experienced by him. That is the morning
shattered immediately by gun and the others rifferring to the Cold War in germany. All of these
situation unify within the hubbub and confusing of the speakers thought.
2 Paradox
Paradox that is defined as an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true. It may be either a situation or a statement emerges
in the following lines of this lyric:
…is there a heaven in the sky why can’t we get it right
…cause we all live under the same sun we all walk under the same moon
then why, why cant we live as one
Regarding with the lyric above, the writer finds the paradox situation here by means of word heaven symbolizes an agent of peace assumed as the
real of happiness source giving a protection or patronage properly to everyone who live in the earth. But, the people can not get it right.
The paradox situation could be understood through the lines “...we all live under the same sun we all walk under the same moon then why, why
can’t we live as on…” here the speaker criticizes the situation through the end
of the lyric “…why we can’t live as one,” in which every can not live like borthers.
The life
in under the same sun
and walking under the same moon describes the intimacy, familiarity of life among people nevertheles, it give
nothing to the people stay beneath. The speaker also proposes the paradox situation in the continued lines
of this lyric“...we all live under the same sky we all look up at the same stars then why, tell me why cant we live as one,”
in which both of these stanzas describes some short images of paradox condition that is properly living as
one, even wage war.
