found some figurative language and also found the key words of each figurative language.
The results are figurative language is dominant in the each songs of the album. Masruri did well but only analyse the figurative language without any
other literary elements, and this is what makes the previous research different compared to this researches.
As what have been explained above, this research and the first previous research use the same author of the lyric, Green Day, even though the lyric used
by each of the research is different. This research chose Green Day’s song called “Jesus of Suburbia”, and the research focuses on the figurative language.
Different from the previous research, this research analyze kinds of figurative language and then describes the meanings of the whole lyric and finding out more
information of the lyric. The next step is finding out the theme of the lyric. From the information and meanings that have been gathered, it helps to finding out the
theme. The second research also only consists in the figurative language without
any other literary elements that actually will give more information and clearer meanings of the songs. It will be better if Masruri add another literary element in
order to enrich the knowledge about this field. From the explanations above, the differences of the previous research and
this research is that this research using another intrinsic element that did not given by previous research, figurative language, and also the corpus data that is also
different from the previous research even though the author of the lyric is the same.
B. Definition of Poem
Poem is a form of words which contain beautiful language, and also has meaning which can make the poem itself enjoyed with hearing or reading.
Greenfield and Wealtherhead define: A poem maybe enjoyed on first sight, for its brilliant imagery, perhaps, of its satisfying sound relationships, the appeal of wit
of an intellectual concept pointed with subtlety or for all these together, flashing upon the mind with a shock of delight.
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The definitions of poem can be found in many books, Perrine says: Poem might be defined as kind of language that says
more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language.
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Moreover, poem has several kinds, there are Narrative, Dramatic, and Lyric:
a Narrative
Narrative: a narrative poem tells a story, whether it is simple or complex of the many kinds of narrative poems the most important are ballads,
epic, and metrical romances. A ballad, meant to be sung or recited, presents a single exciting episode in a simple narrative. An epic is a long narrative poem,
in an elevated style that recounts the adventures of figure of heroic proportions. A metrical romances is a long romantic tale in verse, in which
the chief figures are king, knights, or distressed maidens, acting under the impulse of love, religious faith or a search for adventure.
b Dramatic
Dramatic: poetry that employs dramatic form or some elements of dramatic technique as a means of achieving poetic ends is called dramatic
poetry.
c Lyric
Lyric: originally intended to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre- hence, the name – a lyric poem is a brief, subjective statement, marked by
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Stanley B. Greenfield and A. Kingley Wealtherhead, The Poem: An Anthology. Meredith Corporation. 1968. p. xxvii
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Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. ARP. Sound and Sense: An Introduction to poem. Eight edition Southern Methodist University. 1992 p. 3
