An Interpretation of Meaning in Muse’s Black Holes and Revelations A Paper By, Jeremia Sihar Joshua Siahaan REG.NO.142202058 UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES DIPLOMA III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM MEDAN 2017 UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA AUTHOR’S DECLARATION I am JEREMIA SIHAR JOSHUA SIAHAAN declare that I am the sole author of this paper. Except where the reference is made in the text of this paper, this paper contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole or in part from a paper by which I have qualified for or awarded another degree. No other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgement in the main text of this paper. This paper has not been submitted for the award of another degree in any tertiary education. Signed : Date : Tuesday, August 01, 2017 i UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA COPYRIGHT DECLARATION Name : JEREMIA SIHAR JOSHUA SIAHAAN Title of paper : AN INTERPRETATION OF MEANING IN MUSE’S BLACK HOLES AND REVELATIONS Qualification : D-III Study Program: English 1. I am willing that my paper should be available for reproduction at the discretion of the Libertarian of the Diploma III English Study Program, Faculty of Culture Study, USU on the understanding that users are made aware of their obligation under law of the Republic of Indonesia. 2. I am not willing that my papers be made available reproduction. Signed : Date : Tuesday, August 01, 2017 ii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRACT The title of this paper is “An Interpretation of Meaning in Muse’s Black Holes & Revelations”. This study describes about an interpretation of meaning of six songs (Take a Bow, Starlight, Invincible, Knights of Cydonia, Map of the Problematique, and City of Delusion) in the Black Holes & Revelations, a studio album by Muse, an English Rock Band. To overcome the problem in finding the meaning, the writer uses stylistic method. The purpose of this paper is finding the meaning and concluding the figure of speech that is used. There are some language style has been found on this album such as metaphor, personification, symbol, hyperbole, irony and simile. During the process of writing this paper, the writer uses library method with collecting books that related to the topic as the references and also browsing from several sources from the internet. In the first chapter the writer describes the background, problem of study, scope of study, purpose and method of study. Second chapter contains about the description of song lyric, poetry, language style and stylistic approach. Chapter three contains about the description of meaning and language style from each song. The last chapter contains about the conclusion and suggestion of the paper. iii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ACKNOWLEDGMENT First of all, I would like to thank to Jesus Christ for His blessing and guidance during the process of completing this paper to finish my study in Diploma III English Study Program, Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara My special gratitude is to my parents, Ir. T. Siahaan and Clara Magdalena Pardede for always loving me, my beloved brother and sisters, Joseph, Vani, Conni, Cory and all my relatives who has given me their support, advice and prayer, so that I could accomplish my study on time. My sincere thanks are expressed to my supervisor Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum. who has spent his precious time to provide me with guidance and suggestions during the process of writing this paper. I also thank to the Head of Diploma-III English Program, Dra. Swesana Mardia Lubis, M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara, Dr. Budi Agustono, M.S. I also would like to express my sincere gratitude to all my lecturers for their valuable knowledge, guidance, and advice during my period of study. Then I want to thank to all of my best friends in English Diploma especially for Perjolas a.k.a my PES mates, Fikram, Hiskia, Pandi, Renja, Dwi and Maruli, thank you for all the consideration. Thanks you for all the assitance during my study. My Martabak mates, Pika, Yedit and Pares, I will never forget your craziness, guys, you da real mvp, thank you so much for having me. Then iv UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Martha, my guitar tutor, thank you. Yudha, Andreas, Bagus, and others eight friends who had the same ‘problem’ with me in finishing up this paper. And I would like to thank to all the members of SOLIDAS, whose name I cannot mention one by one. Lastly I want to thank my fellas since high school, my futsal mates, my very best friends in Aceng, especially for Miljam, Ical, Rean and Rizki thanks for all the nobars, wifi-hunter, burn burn, mama rere (manis manja renang sore), everything, thank your very much. Finally, as the writer I would like to admit that this paper may be still far from being perfect, therefore, I open my hands to constructive criticism and suggestions. Medan, August 1st 2017 The writer JEREMIA JOSHUA REG. NO: 142202058 v UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION......................................................................................1 1.1.Background of the Study........................................................................1 1.2.Problems of the Study............................................................................6 1.3.Scope of the Study.................................................................................6 1.4.Purpose of the Study..............................................................................7 1.5.Reason for Choosing the Topic..............................................................7 1.6.Method of The Study.............................................................................8 2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE...........................................................................................9 2.1.Song Lyric and Poetry............................................................................9 2.2.Language Style.....................................................................................10 2.3.Stylistic Approach................................................................................12 3. THE DESCRIPTION...............................................................................14 4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION.........................................................................................26 4.1.Conclusion............................................................................................26 4.2.Suggestion............................................................................................26 BIBLIOGRAPHY................................................................................................27 vi UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background of the Study The title of this study is An Interpretation of Meaning in Muse’s Black Holes and Revelations. Black Holes and Revelations is a music album by Muse, an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, England. This is their fourth studio album. This album was released on July 3, 2006 in the United Kingdom. This study is interpreting six song’s meanings from this album, those are Take a Bow, Starlight, Invincible, Knights of Cydonia, Map of the Problematique, and City of Delusion. In finding meaning of these songs writer used stylistics approach, the study of figure of speech (language style). Interpretation maybe is a rare topic for most of people. In daily life, this word is commonly found in an article (opinion) on the newspaper or science magazine such as interpretation of data, interpretation of history, interpretation of law, interpretation of science theory, interpretation of literary work and many more. Particularly, for more specific, an interpretation is mostly written in the science journal. Definition of interpretation for English Language Learners by Merriem- Webster (interpretation) is the act or result of explaining or interpreting something is the way something is explained or understood. It is a particular way of performing something. The way writer sees it, he considers that interpretation is 1 UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA theoretical opinion, explanation of meaning and symbol, and understanding of an object which is created and earned by a deep thought. There are a lot of objects can be interpreted, such as poems, book, law, bible, science theories, and even statue and panting are able to be interpreted. Generally, an expert is interpreting an object to get more specific and deep understanding of meaning to make it clearer. For example, an ambiguous poetry and abstract painting which are hard for most of people to understand, they could be the object of interpretation. Thus, people will know what the actual meanings are contained in those objects. In this study writer will interpret eight song lyrics in Black Holes & Revelations music album. The words and lyrics in this album are very ambiguous. It is not easy to understand the meaning. As a matter of fact song lyrics in this album also can be defined as poems collection. Therefore, within explaining about music interpretation, writer firstly has to describe interpretation of poetry and poetry as a literature. This must be explained because poetry is a branch of literary work. Wellek and Warren (1963: 22) said, “Also state that the term literature seems best if we limit it to the art of literature, that is, to imaginative literature. Literature is also produced by imagination of the author. Literature is not just a document of facts, it is not just the collection of real events though it may happen in the real