An Analysis of Imagery Meaning Found in Olivia Rodrigo’s Selected Songs and its Contribution to Teach Poetry

Abstract

Literature is a form of creative activity which concern with the relation between society and  individuals. Literature can be called languge art and which poetry clasified as a form of literature. Music also is a form of literary works which contain lyrics that described as a poet or musical expression of emotion.

The expression of emotion itself can be called as imagery which a descriptive language used by writers to create images in the mind of readers. The aims of this study are:1) to analyze the imageries  in the Olivia Rodrigo’s songs lyrics, 2) to find out dominant imageries in the Olivia Rodrigo’s songs lyrics, 3) to find out the contribution of this study towards poetry. This research is a qualitaive  research to analyze the imagery in selected Olivia Rodrigo’s songs lyrics and the contribution to teach poetry.

In this study, the resarcher found  three different types of imagery which are visual imagery, kinestethic imagery, and organic imagery. Furthermore, Olivia Rodrigo’s songs entitled “Happier”, ‘Driver Lisences”, and “Traitor” contains imagery meaning and each of which has a different meaning and types in each line of the lyrics.