According to Webber, J 2006, “An individual’s character is that person’s collection of character traits and these can be defined as relatively stable
dispositions to think, feel, and behave in certain ways in certain situations” p. 95. In addition,
According to Prudchenko and Media 1937, “Character in poetry may be revealed using their actions, words or thoughts or other character’s words
or thoughts. They may also be revealed using imagery or a poignant type of figurative language.” How the author describes the character is called
characterization. There are many types of characterization in poetry. According to
Prudchenko and Media 1937, The poet, just like a prose writer, chooses the best way to present and
introduce his characters. Character presentation can be divided into two types: direct presentation and indirect presentation. Characters who are
described by the writer, the narrator or other characters in the poem are presented directly, while those whose traits are revealed by their actions
and speech are presented indirectly.
2.1.2 Theory of Personality
The next theory is theory of personality. Personality related to someone’s behaviour, feeling and thinking. In this study, the writer used theory from Hurlock
to describe “I” in “I Would”. The writer used speech from “I Would” to reveal I ‘s description. Speech in this study means the language used by “I” while talking
about his situation. According to Hurlock 1974, “Speech gives clues to the personality of the speaker” p. 60. In addition, Hurlock says that “Speech tells
other how the speaker thinks of himself, what his dominant interest are, how he
feels about other people, and what his relationship with them is” p. 60. Also, “Speech tells something about the emotional state of the speaker-whether he is
happy or sad, frightened or calm, curious or apathetic, envious or appreciate, sympathetic or critical, or angry” p. 60.
2.1.3 Theory of Poetry
Poetry tells the writer’s story or his or her own feeling to the audience. It is an expression of thought from the poet. Perrine 2009 states:
Poets form their own store of felts, observed, or imagined experiences, select, combine, and reorganize. They create significant new experiences
for their readers-significant because focused and formed- in which readers can participate and from which they may gain a greater awareness and
understanding of their world p. 634.
The songwriter uses ordinary language to deliver the message of the song to the audience. The language is usually directed in order to help the audience
understand the meaning or the story of the song. The writer tries to communicate with the audience that involves the sense or emotion through the song. Perrine
writes 2009, Poetry finally is a kind of multidimensional language. Ordinary language-
the kind that we use to communicate information-is one dimensional. It is directed as only part of the listeners, the understanding. Its one dimension
is intellectual. Poetry, which is language used to communicate experience, has at least four dimensions. If it is to communicate experience, it must be
directed at the whole person, not just at your understanding. It must involve not only your intelligence but also your senses, emotions, and
imaginations. To the intellectual dimension, poetry adds as sensuous dimension, and emotional dimension, and an imaginative dimension p.
640.
The definition of poetry also stated by Akhter 2013: Poetry may be defined as a verbal composition designed to convey
experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive
power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor and rhyme. Poetry is evocative. It typically evokes in the reader an intense
emotion, joy, sorrow, ang
er, catharsis, love…………etc. Murphy 1972 also states that lyrics are usually words intended to be
accompanied by music you will understand what is meant by a lyric poem p. 87. Poetry cannot be separated from the devices of comparison. Devices of
comparison are used to analyze the surface meaning of “I Would”. According to
Murphy 1972, the word ‘simile’ only means: like. When the poet uses a simile makes it plain to the reader that he is using a conscious comparison by using
certain words: like, as, as though, as if, as…as, as…so p. 23. Child and Fowler 2006 define simile as a comparison, discursive, tentative, in which the ‘like’ or
‘as…as’ suggests, from the viewpoint of reason, separateness of the compared items p. 213.
2.1.4 Theory of Love
This study used some theories of love to find the surface and the deeper meaning of love “I” in “I Would”. The surface meaning of love can be found in
the lyric because it is written in the song whereas the deeper meaning is implicit in the song. According to Hatfield and Rapson 1994, love itself is a basic emotion.
According to Byrne’s law of attraction in Hyde books 2013, “Our liking for a person is influenced by the reinforcements we receive from interacting with them
