Evanescence's Fallen Sound Devices and Its

Home , Anywhere but Home, Bring Me to Life, Going Under, My Immortal, Tim McCord, Troy McLawhorn

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EVANESCENCE[S FALLEN SOUND DEVICES AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO LANGUAGE TEACHING OF POETRY

Aliyatis Sya[ni

Abstract

Poetry is a feeling expression that uses chosen words, that is not predicted and has powerful meaning. Kennedy and Gioia explain that poetry is another way to say or another term is poem. A poem usually will make some sense and give some pleasure, but it may not yield everything at once. Many kinds of poetry, one of them is song lyric. A good song lyric has good sound devices. Sound device is one of the characteristics of poetry. The aims of the final project are: (1) to find out how Fallen single lyrics contribute to language teaching of poetry, (2) to find out sound devices are used in Fallen lyrics. This final project applied descriptive qualitative method. The data in this final project is collected by downloading from internet and also gathering the other data and theories from some related books from library. The data is analyzed by five steps. First, the songs were listened carefully. Second, reading the song lyrics. Third, the song lyrics were classified in sound devices. Fourth, the song lyrics were analyzed with alliteration, assonance, consonance and rhyme. And the last, reporting the result. The result of this final project can be briefly in clear description as follow. They are eleven songs in the Fallen album. The researcher found out four kinds of sound devices in the song lyrics. They are alliteration, assonance, consonance and rhyme. Based on the song lyrics of Fallen album that analyzed the final project. They are 106 assonances, 63 consonances, 61 alliterations and 24 rhymes (14 internal rhymes, 6 perfect rhymes, 3 end rhymes and 1 imperfect rhymes). Fallen single lyrics can contribute to language teaching poetry. Lyrics in the fallen album are easy to be analyzed by students. Besides on those sound devices of Fallen album can make students enjoy in learn poetry. Students can get knowledge more about correlation between poetry and song, they can find out elements of poetry through song and be more creative in learning English.

Keywords: sound devices, song lyrics, language teaching of poetry

Introduction Today many scholars know song lyrics Poetry is a feeling expression that than poetry. Substantively, song lyric is uses chosen words that are not predicted and have powerful meaning. Poetry is poetry that added music with the result universal language and almost old. that becomes a song.

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It is real to the most unintended Fallen album by Evanescence band. readers that poetry makes a greater use There are many songs that can be used of the music of language than does as source of teaching poetry. Fallen lyric language that is not poetry. The poet, can be used as the source for teaching of unlike the man who uses language to poetry should involve all the material of convey only information, chooses his poetry. And for the students should world for sound as well as for meaning, motivate themselves, they get and the uses of the sound a means of knowledge more about correlation reinforcing his meaning. between poetry and song, can know elements of poetry through song, and be To teach English is not only by more creative in learning English. The old style, but also match with the new statements of the problem of this style as in using English song, because proposal are; How do Fallen singles English song can be communicative lyrics contribute to teaching poetry?; media to teach English, especially in What are the elements of sound Literature. The title of this study is devices?. While The objectives of the ^Evanescence Fallen Sound Devices and problem are; To find out how Fallen Its Contribution to Language Teaching singles lyrics contribute to language of Poetry_, and the topic of this study is teaching of poetry, To find out sound analyzing the song lyric with sound devices are used in Fallen lyrics devices. The lyric that is analyzed is

Related Theories Sound Devices of Poetry total meaning or communication of the Sound device is one of some poem. elements of poetry. There are two broad The elements of sound devices ways by which the poet achieves his are alliteration, assonance, consonance musical quality, by his choice and and rime. arrangement of sound and by his 1. Alliteration arrangement of accents. The poet may Kennedy and Gioia (2005) describe indeed sometimes pursue verbal music alliteration occurs in the repetition for its own sake, more often, at least in of the same consonant sound at the first rate poetry, it is an adjunct to the beginning of successive words.

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2. Assonance (2005:173): some definitions of Kennedy and Gioia (2005:171) rime would apply the term to the explain that to repeat the sound of a repetition of any identical or similar consonant is to produce alliteration, sound, not only a vowel sound. but to repeat the sound of a vowel is Teaching Poetry to produce assonance. Like The main objectives of teaching alliteration, assonance may occur literature in the undergraduate English either initially âll the awful department is to acquaint students with auguries_ or internally Edmund various literary genres, and consequently Spenser[s ^her goodly eyes like introducing them in the social, cultural, sapphires shining bright, / her literary and intellactual backgrounds of forehead ivory white . . . ând it can the nation. help make common phrases unforgettable: êager beaver_, ^holy To teach English effectively, the smoke_. teacher have to more creative, not only 3. Consonance by old style, but also match with the new Consonance is a kind of slant rime style as using in English song, also called near rime, off rime or ecspecialy in teaching poetry. Today imperfect rime. Kennedy and Gioia many scholars know song lyrics than (2005:175) describe consonance poetries. Substantively, song lyric is occurs when the rimed words or poetry that added music with the result phrases have the same beginning that becomes a song. Many students like and ending end consonants sound sing a song. English song should involve but a different vowel of words such all material of poetry. It can be as ^chitter and chatter_. communicative media to teach poetry. 4. Rhyme Students listen to the song, and then they The combination of assonance and read the lyrics as the poetry. After they consonance is rime. According to have been read the lyrics, they would Thomson in www.rfwp.com, rhyme analysis the lyrics as poetry. is similarity of sound between two words, the repetition of the accented Lyrics vowel sound and all succeeding Lyric of the musical element is sound. Kennedy and Gioia intrinsic to the work intellectually as

56 Vol. 5, No.1, February 2014 !o]Çš]• {Ç[v] well as aesthetically: it becomes the length album, Fallen, on Wind-Up focal point for the poet[s perceptions as Records in 2003. Fallen sold more than they are given a verbality form to 17 million copies worldwide and helped convey emotional and rational values. the band won two Grammy Awards. A Lyrics are form of poetry that year later, Evanescence released their expresses a subjective, personal point of live album, Anywhere but Home, which view. It has the composition in verse sold more than one million copies which is sung to a melody to constitute a worldwide. In 2006, the band released song. It describes, in the classification of their second studio album, The Open the the human voice in human classical Door, which sold more than six million music, a specific vocal weight and a copies range at the upper end of the given voice (www.wikipedia.com/evanescence). part. Fallen Research Method Evanescence has three recorded This study contains two sources albums and one live album, and Fallen data. First, primary data is song lyrics Album is first recorded album of and the second is secondary data. In Evanescence. The songs in this album secondary data, the sources of the data are My Last Breath, Hello, Going are references such as book, article and Under, Everybody[s Fool, My Immortal, some information from internet. Haunted, Tourniquet, Imaginary, Taking The data are in the form of the over Me and Whisper. Each of the songs sentences and expressions represent has powerful meaning. sound devices such as assonance, rhyme, Evanescence alliteration, and consonance. Evanescence is an American rock This research is qualitative band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas descriptive research. In analyzing the US. They have been active during 1995 data to answer the problem of the study, until present by singer and pianist Amy the things are that library research is Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. The more appropriate with this study. The members are Amy Lee, Terry Basalmo, writer reads the whole song lyrics or the Tim McCord, Troy McLawhorn and text repeatedly. Will Hunt. After recording private albums, the band released the first full

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Method of Data Collection The writer listens to the songs of There are some techniques that Fallen album carefully time after the writer uses to get data, such as: time and more than one in order 1. Library Research to the writer to understand the Library research refers to song. activities which are done by 2. Reading the lyrics text using library facilities. The writer reads the lyrics in 2. Observasion order that the writer can analyze An observation is needed the lyrics easier, specifically by the writer to know the types some words that have same of sound devices used in the sound. fallen album by evanescence. 3. Classifying the data Here are some steps that the Every lyric of the songs is writer uses: classified appropriately with a. The writer collects the texts sound devices that have been in fallen album by given, whether they are evanescence, and then reads alliteration, assonance, rhyme all the song texts one by one. and consonance. b. After being read every 4. Analyzing the Fallen single sentence is observed to find lyrics out the types of sound After classifying the data in devices that may be used in sound devices, then the writer the song lyrics, the writer analyzes the data with also groups some words or alliteration, assonance, rime and sentences according to consonance. The writer not only composer of fallen album, listen the song lyrics, but also and then analyzed includes analyzes the song lyrics with alliteration, assonance, Oxford Dictionary. Using consonance and rime. Oxford Dictionary in order to Method of Data Analysis make sure that some words have There are five steps in collecting same sound. data, they are: 5. Reporting the result 1. Listening the song carefully The report is an analysis of the result of the lyrics songs that was

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analyzed. It is written in all of the results of the analysis. descriptive research that encloses

Findings Each of every song in Fallen alliterations, 6 assonances, 2 album has different results. In ^Hello_ consonances and 3 internal rhymes. song, there are 5 alliterations, 10 ^Whisper_ has 8 alliterations, 12 assonances, 7 consonances. There are assonances, 11 consonances and one two rhymes in ^Hello_, they are two end internal rhyme. ^Imaginary_ has 6 rhymes and 2 internal rhymes. ^My Last alliterations, 11 assonances, 9 Breath_ has 5 alliterations, 12 consonances and one perfect rhyme. assonances, 4 consonances and 2 internal rhymes. In ^Tourniquet_ there In Fallen album, all of the lyrics are 2 alliterations, 7 assonances, 4 contain elements of sound devices. consonances and have one perfect Alliteration, assonance, consonance and rhyme. ^My Immortal_ has 7 rhyme can be seen easily just by alliterations, 14 assonances, 9 listening. Sounds of the vocalist (Amy consonances and 2 perfect rhymes. Lee) are clear in every song so students ^Bring Me to Life_ has 8 alliterations, are easier to analyze sound devices in those songs. In these facts of the song 13 assonances, 2 consonances and 2 that forms of sound repetition are not internal rhymes. ^Everybody[s Fool_ has written one by one but by totality all at 6 alliterations, 8 assonances, 4 once. consonances and 3 internal rhymes. The objectives of this final _Going Under_ has 7 alliterations, 8 project are (1) to find out how Fallen assonances, and 6 consonances. There singles lyrics contribute to language are two kinds of rhyme in ^Going teaching poetry, (2) to find out sound Under_, they are one perfect rhyme and devices are used in Fallen lyrics. From 2 internal rhymes. ^Taking over Me_ has the analysis in the finding result above, 5 alliterations, 5 assonances and one Fallen singles lyrics can contribute to consonance. There are three kinds of language teaching poetry. Lyrics in rhyme in ^Taking over Me_, they are a Fallen album are easy to be analyzes by perfect rhyme, an end rhyme and an students. Besides on that sound devices imperfect rhyme. ^Haunted_ has 2

59 Vol. 5, No.1, February 2014 !o]Çš]• {Ç[v] of Fallen album can make students enjoy beautiful lyrics that contain in learning poetry. Fallen singles lyrics many alliterations, assonances, can be used as source for teaching of consonances and rhymes. poetry should involve all the material of 3. Based on the song lyrics of poetry. Students can get knowledge Fallen album based on research more about correlation between poetry finding and discussion. The and song, they can know elements of writer found that assonance poetry through song, and be more dominates sound device of that creative in learning English. song lyrics with 106 assonances, As the result of the analysis, the the second is consonance with 63 writer gets some conclusions that are consonances, the third is taken as the object of the study: alliteration with 61 alliterations 1. Lyric is a kind of poetry. Lyrics and the last is rhyme with 25 are form of poetry that expresses rhymes. In Fallen album, there a subjective, personal point of are some kinds that found, like view. It has the composition in end rhyme, internal rhyme, verse which is sung to a melody perfect rhyme and imperfect to constitute a song. rhyme. 2. The writer uses Fallen Album as a lyric that analyzed for this final project. Fallen album has

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