Putri, Nimas Harini (2021) LOVE AS REFLECTED IN JAMES ARTHUR’S “MAYBE” AND “SAY YOU WON’T LET GO”. Undergraduate thesis, Diponegoro University.

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Abstract

James Arthur’s “Maybe” and “Say You Won’t Let Go” are chosen to be analyzed in this study. The purpose of this study is to analyze the reflection of the speaker’s love and the types of imagery and figurative language. This study is strengthened by Sternberg's The Triangular Theory of Love and Arp and Perrine's imagery and figurative language. Library research and close reading method are used to get the data from the songs and some theory, qualitative method to analyze the whole data, and contextual literary method to analyze the intrinsic and extrinsic elements. The result of this study shows that visual imagery, auditory imagery, organic imagery, and kinesthetic refer to the different ending of the songs. The ending of “Maybe” refers to reciprocal love, and the ending of “Say You Won’t Let Go” refers to one-sided love. Meanwhile, simile, symbol, hyperbole, personification, and metaphor refer to the speaker’s Consummate love both of the songs. It can be concluded that the same uses of imagery can differ the ending of the speaker’s love struggle, while the different uses of figurative language can refer to the speaker’s same kinds of love in James Arthur’s “Maybe” and “Say You Won’t Let Go”.

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