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of the whole story, this make the sexual description in the lyric hidden to substitute indecent word. According to Oxford Advance Learner’s Dictionary,
buzzing is a continuous sound like the one that a bee, buzzer, or other electronic devices make, and energy is the ability to put effort and enthusiasm into an
activity, work, etc. Therefore, the speaker makes the lyric sexual description aesthetically hidden about her sexual relationship with her lover.
In line five to ten, the speaker uses metaphor and metonymy as reflected below;
Lets pollinate to create a family tree This evolution with you comes naturally
Some call it science, we call it chemistry This is the story of the birds and the bees
Even the season change Our love still stays the same
Hummingbird Heartbeat: 5-10 From the quotation above the speaker tells to the readers that she ask her
lover to continue their sexual relationship to make a small family by doing reproduction.
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Their love feeling has been grown and will never change from long time before and the speaker tells that the lyric will tell the story about a
sexual relationship between man and woman. In line five, speaker uses word ‘pollinate’ to replace obscene word, the speaker tries to ask her lover to make a
family tree, as we know to make a family tree human need to do a reproduction, the sexual description in this line completely hidden because the use of metaphor
in the lyric. According to Oxford Advance Learners Dictionary, pollinate is to put
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Refers to Cambridge Dictionaries Online reproduction is the method of producing plants, animals, and people in which a male seed or sperm cell and a female egg join.
pollen fine powder, usually yellow that is formed in flowers and carried to other flowers of the same kind by the wind or by insects, to make those flowers
produce seeds. Inline six of the lyric the speaker uses metaphor by using word ‘evolution’. According to Oxford Advance Learners Dictionary, evolution is the
gradual development of plants, animals, etc, over many years as they adapt to changes in their environment. In this line speaker tells the readers that she has
built the relationship from long time ago, and their feeling comes naturally to do a sexual relationship. In line seven the speaker uses metaphor to compare their
intimate love with phrase ‘science and chemistry’, refer to Oxford Advance Learners Dictionary science is a system for organizing the knowledge about a
particular subject, especially one concerned with aspects of human behavior or society, and chemistry is the relationship between two people, usually a strong
sexual attraction, in this line the speaker tells the readers about her sexual relationship desire without obscene impression. In the next line the speaker uses
metonymy in phrase ‘Birds and the bees’, this idiom refer to Oxford Advance Learners Dictionary which means the basic facts about sex especially as told to
children in which the parents explain what sexual relationship are. In the lyric; fifth to eighth line from figurative languages used, the readers can see how the
speaker describe her story with subtle word to make the lyric’s sexual description aesthetically hidden without improper explanation. From the cited lyric above the
speaker also uses overstatement to tell the readers that her love to her lover will never change even the season change.
In line eleven to fourteen, the speaker represents her sexual relationship story with her lover, as seen in the text below:
You give me that hummingbird heartbeat Spread my wings and make me fly
The taste of your honey is so sweet When you give me that hummingbird heartbeat
Hummingbird Heartbeat: 11-14 The quotation above represents that the speaker doing sexual relationship
with her lover, and he makes the speaker and her lover reach to the top of her intimate relationship desire, until the speaker can taste her lover ‘honey’. The
speaker uses metaphor to substitute obscene word, the use of metaphor in line eleven is to describe something else, in a way that is different from its normal use,
the speaker uses word ‘hummingbird heartbeat’ to describe her and her lover’s sexual desire, the used of metaphor in this line makes the lyric not containing
improper word. Hummingbirds are tiny; but their productivity in this case heart rate can reach as high as 1,260 beats per minute, a rate once measured in a blue-
throated hummingbird with a breathing rate of 250 breaths per minute.
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The speaker uses hummingbird in the lyric to show the readers that the sexual
relationship in the lyric is a big thing come in small package that represents the speaker’s desire. The speaker also tells the readers that she reach to the top of her
sexual desire with metaphor and also overstatement in line twelve by describing the situation with sentence ‘spread my wings make me fly’. The speaker
completely describes herself and her lover as a hummingbird who pollinate a flower, this makes the lyric can be enjoyed aesthetically without obscene
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Jean Cole. The General dominates hordes of hummingbirds in Embarrass . Retrieved from http:goo.glSFRfvZ. Accessed January 18 2016
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impression in the surface. Inline thirteen of the lyric the speaker describes her lover also reach to the top of his sexual desire or libido by using word ’honey’.
According to Oxford Advance Learner’s Dictionary honey is a sweet sticky yellow substance made by bees foraging nectar
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from flowers. The speaker describes the semen or male reproduction cell using metonymy by mentioning
‘honey’ to tell the readers about her sexual relationship. If the speaker uses the actual word, the lyric will be not considered as an erotic lyric referring to
Sitanggang, because an erotic lyric containing literary value if the sexual description can aesthetically hidden.
In line eighteen to twenty-one the speaker tries to describes that she is really serious with her intimate relationship, the situation represents in the
quotation below: Ive flown a million miles just to find a magic seed
A white flower with the power to bring life to me Youre so exotic, my whole body fluttering
Constantly craving for a taste of your sticky sweet
Hummingbird Heartbeat: 18-21 From the quotation above speaker tries to tell the readers that she has
found the one she will spend her life with after searching for a long time, the one that give a power to her life, that makes her cannot leave the lover because she is
already craving for her lover “honey”. In line eighteen the readers can see that the speaker builds a serious relationship, she is looking for a real love for so long to
have her own ‘family tree’ with overstatement impression using sentence ‘I’ve flown a million miles just to find a magic seed’. In the next line the speaker uses
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Nectar, sweet, viscous secretion from the nectarines, or glands, in plant blossoms, stems, and
leaves. It attracts fruit-eating bats, hummingbirds, and insects, who aid in effecting pollination by transferring from plant to plant the pollen that clings to their bodies.
metaphor to describes her lover as ‘a white flower’. White signifies purity and innocence.
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The speaker tries to tell the readers that the one she built a relationship with is the perfect one for her; he can bring and give power and pure
love to her life. In line twenty, the readers can see that speaker describing her lover with metaphor by using word ‘exotic’ to tell the readers her lover makes her
exciting. Refers to Oxford Advance Learner’s Dictionary exotic is something from or in another country, especially a tropical one; seeming exciting and
unusual because it is connected with foreign countries. The speaker also describing she is ‘fluttering’ because of her lover in the same line, to inform the
readers about her respond because of her lover, flutter is a word uses for a bird, according to Oxford Advance Learner’s Dictionary it means the wings move
lightly and quickly up and down.
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In line twenty-one the speaker using metonymy to tell the readers that she is addicted to her lover by describing she is
craving
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for her lover sticky sweet or ‘honey’. In the next line, the speaker tries to describe about her feelings as
reflected in line twenty two to twenty five below: Always on the brink of a heart attack
You gave me life and keep me coming back I see the sun rise in your eyes, your eyes
Weve got a future full of blue skies, blue skies
Hummingbird Heartbeat: 22-25 The quotation above shows that the speaker always got a heart attack but
her lover give life to her, she believes that she will have a happy future life with
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Whitney Smith. Flag of the United States of America. Retrieved from http:www.britannica.comtopicflag-of-the-United-States-of-America.
Accessed January 18th 2016, 19.00.
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A bird normally flutters when attracted to something.
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Craving is a strong desire for something
her lover. In line twenty two to twenty five, the speaker uses overstatement to tell the readers how she loves her lover in the story, the overstatement in this part help
the readers to know the personality of the speaker, because she always uses overstatement to describe her feeling to her lover. She cannot live without her
lover, because every time she brinks of a heart attack, she will always return to him because he is her life, the speaker tells the readers that she believes that her
lover that she describes in the lyric is her the true love, as she mentions in twenty- fourth line of the lyric that she sees the sun rise in her lover eyes. According to
Oxford Advance Learners Dictionary, sun is the star that shines in the sky during the day and gives the earth heat and light, sun is important for human on earth the
same like the love is important for the speaker. In twenty-fifth line the speakers believe that she got a perfect future with full of blue skies with her lover, as we
know blue skies only appear in the earth when the weather dazzling and bring happiness, the same like the lover to the speaker.
In the end of the lyric the speaker tells the readers about this intimate relationship story. It ended beautifully using metaphor and simile by the sound
come out from both of them as the speaker describes from the quotation below: When we hear a perfect harmony
You make me sounds like, like a symphony, oh Hummingbird Heartbeat: 37-38
In the thirty-seventh line the speaker uses metaphor to describe this intimate story ended with a “perfect harmony”, referring to Oxford Advance
Learners Dictionary harmony is state of peaceful existence and agreement. In the next line the speaker uses simile to tell the readers that the lover makes the
speaker sounds like a ‘symphony’, according to Oxford Advance Learners Dictionary symphony is a long complicated piece of music for a large orchestra.
In this part word ‘symphony’ really helps the lyric to make it does not look obscene, the use of ‘symphony’ word represents the sexual relationship story in
the lyric between the speaker and the lover which have reached to the top of their libido, the sexual description here aesthetically hidden.