…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.
3 Allusion
Referring to the definition of the allusion “a reference to something in history or previous literature is like a richly constitutive word or symbol, a
means of suggesting far more than it says,”
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the writer can concludes that some of of lines “I saw the morning It was shattered by a gun…I saw a
mother she was praying for her son …I saw the evening …we watch the lamb, lay down to the sacrifice I saw the children…”
categorized as symbol that could be said as allusion too such as the words morning and evening. The
word such as mother, lamb, children are also indicated as allusion, because the row of the words refers to something in history or previous literature as
background of this lyric considered suggesting far more than it says. The word morning written by the speaker in first line of this lyric
describes an allusion describing the opposite situation with the situation proposed by the word morning indicating the freshness, cold, etc. such was
the case evening, mother, lamb, children referring to the turpitude of war.
C. The Concept of Peace
Overall, the four lyrics describe the ideal world referring to the way of the speaker grasps the peace itself. But, the concept of peace constructed by them
constantly refers to the concept of peace that is defined by some prominent figures such as Takeshi Ishida, Anatol Rapaport, Rudolph Rummel, Gunnar Johnson and
John Macqurrie their concepts are submitted in theoretical framework of this thesis.
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Ibid. p. 120.
The speaker uses the figure of speech such as simile, metaphor, personification or apostrophe etc. and imagery give the good effects to the readers
and of course the four these shout people to give a chance for peace. In the theoretical framework of this thesis, Gunnar Johnson presents three
major concepts of peace: 1 peace as a world without war, 2 peace as world justice, and 3 peace as world order, abstracts element of these concepts into theoretical
categories. The third category of concepts is closely related to something that is proposed
by the speaker within the lyric “Imagine” “…Imagine there’s no heaven,” “imagine there’s no country it isn’t hard to do nothing to kill or die for and no religion too,”
and “imagine no possessions…” that is measured as the stumbling block for people to live in peace. The paradox situation that emerges the analysis is a description of the
speaker to the previous situation that is Vietnam War that construes the concept of peace; how people can live as one and without differences.
While Give Peace a Chance describes the concept of peace through the refrain of this lyric “All we are saying is give peace a chance.” This refrain is
invitation to all people to give peace a chance where peace is suggested as a colloquialism that refers to a state of being mentally or spiritually at peace, with
enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress. Being at peace is considered by many to be healthy homeostasis and the
opposite of being stressed or anxious. The word bagism in the first stanza of this lyric understood as the place for
fans of John Lennon and The Beatles to come together and learn, educate, and has
fun. It is an interactive site meaning in which everyone will have to be an active participant rather than just being a passive observer.
The underlying concept of John and Yokos bagism idea is interactivity among people without prejudice proposing the concept of peace that is the intimacy
situation, intimation of one to the others and all people could be active in making the peace such as described in the refrain of the lyric“…all we are saying is give peace a
chance.” The concept of peace that is proposed by this lyric related to the concept of
peace proposed by John Macquarrie – peace is viewed as a process of creating a more peaceful world, or of manifesting the latent true nature of humanity, where that
peaceful world or latent nature is ideal states or goals. The actual attainment of the goal or the existence of the goal is taken as a matter of faith, or of transcendent
experience. However the process of creation is seen as more immediately important. The figure of speech used by the speaker in this lyric indicates a symbol describibng a
process of creating peace in the world. Wind of Change
and Under the Same Sun written by Scorpions is a lyrics delivered to their country conflict as ctritic of the speakers to the war situation.
Through both of lyrics, the writer concludes that the peace is the situation where people could be so close like brother and every body can feel peace everywhere.
Even as,
Under the Same Sun constructs the concept of peace through the
paradox situation. The paradox situation appeals from the word heaven symbolized as an agent of peace that is assumed as the real of happiness source giving a protection
or patronage properly to the people in the earth. Yet, why can not we live as one.
The speaker described that situation in lines “…do you ever ask yourself is there a heaven in the sky why cant 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.” The oncept of peace proposed by the speaker through above lyric related to
the concept of peace proposed in Wind of Change, that is the situation in which people could be so close like brother.
Based on both of the concept of peace above, the writer concludes that Wind of Change
and Under the Same Sun describe the concept of peace that is nearly same with the concept of peace that is proposed by Gunnar Johnson within the first
category of three categories presented by him “peace as a world without war.” This category is concerned with disarmament, control of or elimination of war,
understanding the root causes of war, and the control of or elimination of war like to these ends most of peace research has been dedicated.
Overall, the concept of peace that is proposed by the four of these lyrics describe the situation without war and the people could be so close like brother.
