Metaphorical Expressions in Coldplay’s Song

Abstract

This study deals with the analysis Metaphorical Expressions in Coldplay‟s Song. The objectives of this research were to investigate Metaphorical Expression in Coldplay‟s song and to describe the classification metaphor and to explain the function of metaphorical expression. This research applied descriptive qualitative methods. The researcher took 19 lyrics from 18 songs a full of the total all lyrics performed in Coldplay‟s song. In collecting the data, the song lyrics found the searching through the international network services and found the Metaphorical Expression in Coldplay‟s song. There were two metaphorical expression that contain 19 lyrics on the lyrics Coldplay‟s song. There are two metaphorical expression that analyzed from on the lyrics Coldplay song. There are dead metaphor was 7 and live metaphor was 11 that found in Coldplay‟s song. On the other hand, this present study also finds the influence of the two classifications of metaphor used in the data in defining metaphorical meaning of metaphoric expressions. From the analysis in previous chapter, it is found that dead metaphor influences the fixed metaphorical meaning of the data. As dead metaphors, the metaphoric expressions which are formed as idioms have fixed meaning which have been so familiar in daily life. That is why the relation between the metaphoric expression and how the metaphorical meaning is formed does not become the main concern for listeners because their ears are familiar with it. On the other hand, live metaphor influences bigger than dead metaphor in revealing metaphorical meaning because its character which formed freely based on creativity. Listeners‟ ears have not been familiar with those metaphoric expression, so the analysis on the metaphorical meaning is not bond to a famous expression. As the result, the metaphorical meaning of live metaphoric expressions is more varied