Contoh Soal Understanding messages of songs
Contoh Soal Understanding messages of songs - DESCRIPTION: Basic competence learnt in this lesson is how to comprehend and describe the meaning of simple English songs.
Objective: In the previous lesson, you already learned about the language of songs. In this lesson, you are going to try to understand and analyze the universal messages of songs themselves.
Understanding messages of songs
An understanding and appreciation of songs can be better acquired by comprehending the diction of the songs. As mentioned in the previous lessons, diction is the choice of words. Writers or singers choose certain words to develop certain tones or atmospheres. Furthermore, you also can understand the messages of songs by trying to find out the meaning of words and phrases in the songs, and to figure out the figures of speech in the context.
An understanding and appreciation of songs can be better acquired by comprehending the diction of the songs. As mentioned in the previous lessons, diction is the choice of words. Writers or singers choose certain words to develop certain tones or atmospheres. Furthermore, you also can understand the messages of songs by trying to find out the meaning of words and phrases in the songs, and to figure out the figures of speech in the context.
Let’s start practicing to analyze a song. The song that is going to be analyzed in this lesson comes from a band name A Rocket to the Moon ‘Ever enough’.
However, there are also other universal themes of songs that are inspired from tragedy of humanity happening in the world. In an era of nineties where struggle and campaign against drugs were strong, many songs were created around that theme. Song delivers a universal message, although the language may be different.
The first step to decide the theme and understand the song is by finding the meaning of some words that you think hard or difficult to understand. For instance, from the song ‘Ever enough’, we can try to find the meaning of several words as shown in the figure below:
The second step is by trying to figure out the meaning of some phrases in the song. You have to think about the situation and the context of the song. For instance, see the figure below consisting some phrases from the song ‘Ever enough’:
By doing so, now you can guess what are the themes and the messages of the songs based on the meaning of words and phrases used in the song. The story of the song is about a deep relationship of a couple who has been through hard and difficult time, but even so, they are still trying their best to enjoy the relationship and keep going. In conclusion, it talks about loyalty and passion.
NOTE: Now, try to find the lyrics of your favorite song and analyze it by doing the same steps like the ones in this lesson.
NOTE: Now, try to find the lyrics of your favorite song and analyze it by doing the same steps like the ones in this lesson.
S1
What is the singer or ‘I’ feeling at the beginning of the song?
S2
‘For all that it’s worth’ What does the underlined word mean?
S3
‘Reaching from the other side’ What does the underlined word mean?
S4
‘And now I know what it is like’ What does the underlined word refer to?
S5
‘Cause more than it’s hard to desert it’ What does the underlined word refer to?
S6
What does the phrase ‘Through the push and the pull’ mean?
S7
What does the phrase ‘I still drown in your love’ mean?
S8
To whom the singer or ‘I’ dedicate this song to?
S9
What is the singer or ‘I’ feeling at the end of the song?
S10
What is the proper message of the song?