The Methods of the Study The Objective of the study

8 CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

A. Previous Research

The corpus data of this research is a lyric taken from “Jesus of Suburbia” by Green Day. There is a previous research that is also using lyric from Green Day’s song as the corpus data, but not the exact same song. First is the previous research that belongs to Galih Purwanto. His research came from UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Adab and Humanity. His research entitled “A Symbol Analysis on Two Punk Song Lyrics, American Idiot Green Day and God Save The Queen Sex Pistols” is Green Day’s lyric called American Idiot, and God Save the Queen by Sex Pistols as the corpus data. The previous research focused on the symbols inside the lyric. First, he searched for the symbols that can be found inside the lyric, and then described each of the symbols that founded. After analyzed the symbols and described the meanings, he continues analyzes the theme of the lyric. The research finally reached the conclusion that the theme sentence of the lyric is The Americans criticize the application of their own democracy. The second is a research from STAIN Salatiga entitled “Figurative Language Analysis in Letto’s Song, Truth, Cry, and Lie Album”. This research belongs to Muh Masruri. He analyzed Letto’s Songs from Truth, Cry, and Lie album. He analyzed the kinds of figurative language of each songs, then finding the key words that contained figurative language. From ten songs in the album, he 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