READING CIVIL WAR BY GUNS N’ ROSES: A SEMIOTICS OF POETRY ANALYSIS

Adam Nursyifa Fikri Firmansyah, NIM.: 14150013 (2021) READING CIVIL WAR BY GUNS N’ ROSES: A SEMIOTICS OF POETRY ANALYSIS. Skripsi thesis, UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA.

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Abstract

Aside from poetry, song lyrics also has a lot of meaning to analyze. This research uses a song by Guns N’ Roses entitled Civil War. Civil War talks about the American civil war that happened in 1861 until 1865, the assassination of black skin activist Martin Luther King Junior, the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and the America Vietnam War. From those tragedies that mention in the song, the researcher is interested to know what is the songwriters want to really talk about and what is the significance of the song. This research uses Semiotics of Poetry by Michael Riffaterre by using an objective approach to gain the significance of the song. In analyzing the data, the researcher uses a close reading technique. To gain the significance or the deep meaning in Civil War lyrics, indirection expression, heuristic and hermeneutic reading, matrix, models and variants, and hypogram are used to gain it. Meaning from song lyrics gained from the matrix. After searching the matrix, in Riffaterre’s perspective can be concluded that Civil War is not a poem, however it is a verse. It because the matrix is not found. As Riffatere states that poetry is development from the matrix that becomes the models and transformed to the variants. Hypogram from the song is When Johnny Comes Marching Home song, Cool Hands Luke (1967) movie, the speech by Peruvian Guerrilla, Battle Hymn of the Republic song, and the poem Facing It by Yusef Komunyaka who as the veteran soldier of America-Vietnam war.

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