An Analysis of Figurative Language in

Frank Sinatra’s Album Entittled “My Way”

By :

Group 6

1. Saverius Sardin ( 16.IG.S1.1562 )

2. Luh Gede Manik Paramitha Dewi ( 16.IG.S1.1482 )
3. Made Dewi Krisna Jayanthi ( 16.IG.S1.1492 )
4. Putu Agus Apriatna Wisnawa ( 16.IG.S1.1501 )

STIBA SARASWATI DENPASAR

A. Figurative Language

Figurative language is a language using figures of speech or the way of speaking one thing; in
other words, language that cannot be taken literally.

B. Types of Figurative Language

There are some types of figurative language. They are simile, metaphor, personification,
synecdoche, metonymy, hyperbole, irony, dead metaphor, allusion, and paradox
(Knickerbocker and Reninger, 1963:367). The most common used here are only 7 types of
them, such as Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Synechdoche, Metonymy, Hyperbole and
Irony.

1. Simile is figure of speech involving comparison; it draws resemblance with the help of the
words “like” or “as”.
2. Metaphor is an implied comparison, with like or as omitted.
3. Personification is giving human characteristic to an object, animal, or an abstract idea.
4. Synecdoche is a figure of speech using a part for the whole or using the whole for the part.
5. Metonymy is the figure of speech which describes one thing by using the term for another
thing which is closely associated with it.
6. Hyperbole is an exaggeration used for special effect.
7. Irony is a statement whose real meaning is completely opposed to its professed or surface
meaning.

C. Analysis of Figurative Language

In this paper, the data that is used for analyzing figurative language is the song lyrics of the
album entitled “My Way”. My Way is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra which is
released in 1969 on his own reprise label. This album is mainly a collection of then-
contemporary pop songs, such as Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson", and The Beatles'
"Yesterday", French songs such as "If You Go Away", and the anthemic title song "My Way"
which effectively became Sinatra's theme song in this stage of his career.
The list of the songs are :
1. Watch What Happens 6. My Way
2. Didn't We 7. A Day In The Life Of A Fool
3. Hallelujah, I Love Her So 8. For Once In My Life
4. Yesterday 9. If You Go Away
5. All My Tomorrows 10. Mrs. Robinson

Table 1. Analysis of Figurative language

Figurative
No Song Tittle Song Lyric Analysis
Language

1. Metaphor Yesterday Yesterday, love Metaphore is used

was such an easy in this lyric because
game to play, there is a
Now I need a place comparison
to hide away, oh I between love and
believe in game, where love
yesterday. here is a kind of
feeling of our heart
and game is
something exciting
for having fun. So
here, the writer
wants to deliver his
feeling about his
love in the past
which was very
full of happiness
and mutual trust
with each other.
2. Personification For Once in My For once in my life Personification is
Life I won't let sorrow used in this lyric
hurt me because here the
Not like it's hurt writer gives human
me before (Not characteristic which
like it's hurt is hurt to sorrow in
before) which we know that
sorrow is a kind of
feeling which can’t
do human activity
such as hurting
something. The
other meaning that
 wants to be told by
the writer here is he
didn’t want to let
the same sorrow
make him weak
helpless again.
3. Synecdoche Mrs. Robinson Look around you Synecdoche is used
all you see are in this lyric because
Sympathetic eyes eyes here is a part
Stroll around the referring to a
grounds until you whole. It is
Feel at home referring to a
person. So here,
instead of using
people, the writer
uses eyes which is
referring to the
whole of person.
4. Metonymy All My But I've got Metonymy is used
Tomorrow rainbows planned in this lyric because
for tomorrow here the writer use
And all my the term “rainbows”
tomorrows belong which refers to
to you happiness and
“tomorrow” refers
to future. So here,
the writer tells us
that he has so many
happiness which
has been planned
for his future.
5. Hyperbole All My No one knows Hyperbole is used
Tomorrow better than I in this lyric because
That luck keeps here the writer
passing me by, gives an illogical
that's fate idea since no one
But with you there can turn the tide.
at my side But, from the lyric,
I'll soon be there is also another
turning the tide, meaning which
just wait wants to be
described by the
writer. It is a stong
determination to be
able to change his
destiny.
If You Go Away If you go away Hyperbole is used
On this summer in this lyric because
day it describes an
Then you might as illogical thing since
well no one is able to
Take the sun take the sun away
away as well as the birds
All the birds that that flew in the sky.
flew Besides that, there
In the summer sky is also another
meaning in the
lyric. The sun
means spirit, source
of life and the birds
that flew means a
joy and happiness.
So, here the writer
wants to describes
his feeling if his
love go away from
him, his life will be
filled with darkness
and his happiness
will be lost too.
If You Go Away But if you stay Hyperbole is used
I'll make you a in this lyric because
day as we can see here
Like no day has the writer is over
been exaggerating his
Or will be again feeling for being
We'll sail the sun able to give and do
We'll ride on the anything that could
rain make his love keep
Will talk to the staying with him
trees though he had to
And worship the sacrifice himself or
wind do crazy things that
might be impossible
to do.
All My Right now it may Hyperbole is used
Tomorrow not seem like in this lyric because
spring at all the writer
We're drifting and exaggerates in
the laughs are few expressing his idea
But I've got about his future is
rainbows planned in his love.
 for tomorrow
And all my
tomorrows belong
to you

6. Irony Didn’t We This time we Irony is used in this

almost made it, lyric because it
made it to the contains a meaning
moon that the writer
expect to be able to
reach the moon (
his goal ), but the
fact here is he has
not been able to
reach it.
 Attachment

Watch What Happens Didn't We

Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Let someone start believing in you,
This time we almost made
Let him hold out his hand
the pieces fit
Let him touch you and watch what
Didn't we?
happens
This time we almost made
One someone who can look in your
some sense of it
eyes,
Didn't we?
And see into your heart
This time I had the answer,
Let him find you and watch what
right here in my hand
happens
Then I touched it and it had
Cold, no i won't believe your heart
turned to sand
is cold
This time we almost sang
Maybe just afraid to be broken
our song in tune
again
Didn't we, love?
Let someone with a deep love to
This time we almost made
give
it, made it to the moon
Give that deep love to you,
Didn't we, love?
And what magic you'll see
This time…
Let someone…
Hallelujah, I Love Her So
Frank Sinatra
Let me tell 'bout a gal i know,
She's my baby and she lives next door.
Every morning 'fore the sun comes up,
She brings my coffee in my favorite
cup.
That's why i know, yes, i know,
Hallelujah, i just love her so.
When i'm in trouble and i got no friend,
I know she'll go with me down to the
end.
Everybody asks me how do i know,
I smile a damn and say she told me so.
That why i know, yes i know,
Hallelujah, i just love her so.
Now if i call her on the telephone,
Tell her that i'm all alone,
By the time i count from one to four,
I hear her on my door.
In the evening when the sun goes down,
When there ain't nobody hanging 'round, Why she had to go I don't know, she
She just…
Yesterday
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so
far away
Now they look as though they're here
to stay,
Oh I believe in yesterday, oh I
believe in yesterday.
Suddenly I'm not half the man I used
to be.
There's a shadow hanging over me,
oh yesterday came suddenly.
Why she had to go I don't know, she
wouldn't say.
I said something wrong, now I long
for yesterday.
Yesterday, love was such an easy
game to play
Now I need a place to hide away, oh I
believe in yesterday.
wouldn't say.
I said something wrong , now I long
for yesterday.
Yesterday, love was such an easy
game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away, oh I
believe in yesterday.
All My Tomorrow
Today I may not have a thing at all
Except for just a dream or two
But I've got lots of plans for tomorrow
And all my tomorrows belong to you
Right now it may not seem like spring at I've traveled each and every highway
all
We're drifting and the laughs are few
But I've got rainbows planned for
tomorrow
And all my tomorrows belong to you
No one knows better than I
That luck keeps passing me by, that's
fate
But with you there at my side
I'll soon be turning the tide, just wait
As long…
My Way
And now, the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full
And more, much more than this
I did it my way
Regrets, I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without
exemption
I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you
knew
When I bit off more than I could
chew
But through it all, when there was
doubt
I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall
And did it my way
I've loved, I've laughed and cried
I've had my fill, my share of losing
And now,…
A Day in the Life of a Fool
Frank Sinatra
A day in the life of a fool
A sad and a long lonely day
I walk the avenue and hope I'll run into
The welcome sight of you coming my
way
I stop just across from your door
But you're never home any more
So back…
For Once In My Life
Frank Sinatra
For once in my life I have someone
who needs me
Someone I've needed so long
For once unafraid I can go where life
leads me
Somehow I know I'll be strong
For once I can touch, what my heart
used to dream of
Long before I knew
Oh, someone warm like you
Would make my dream come true,
yeah yeah (For once in my life)
For once in my life I won't let sorrow
hurt me
Not like it's hurt me before (Not like
it's hurt before)
For once I have something I know
won't desert me
I'm not alone anymore (I'm not alone
anymore)
For once I can say
This is mine you can't take it
As long as I know I have love I can
make it
For once in my life I have someone
who needs me (Someone who needs
me)
Hey hey hey, yeah (Someone who
needs me)
Oh baby, Lord baby
For once…
Mrs. Robinson If You Go Away
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
If you go away
And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson, On this summer day
Jilly loves you more than you will Then you might as well
know, Take the sun away
Wo wo wo All the birds that flew
Oh bless you please, Mrs. Robinson, In the summer sky
Heaven holds a place for those who pray When our love was new
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey And our hearts were high
We'd like to know a little bit about you And the day was young
for our files And the night was long
We'd like to help you learn to help And the moon stood still
yourself For the night bird's song
Look around you all you see are If you go away
Sympathetic eyes If you go away
Stroll around the grounds until you If you go away
Feel at home If you go away
The PTA, Mrs. Robinson, But if you stay
Wot OK the way you do your thing, I'll make you a day
Ding ding ding Like no day has been
And you'll get yours, Mrs. Robinson, Or will be again
Foolin' with that young stuff like you do We'll sail the sun
Boo hoo hoo, woo woo woo We'll ride on the rain
So how's your bird, Mrs. Robinson? Will talk to the trees
"Dandy", Mrs.… And worship the wind
Then if you go
I'll understand
Leave me just enough love
To fill up my hand
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
As I…