Abstract
Humans have various opinions in commenting on a literary work. This diversity of opinions will eventually participate in developing research in the literary world. Lyrics are a medium for an author to convey the message he wants to convey in a more free and elegant form. This study aims to describe the reader's perception of the messages and values contained in the lyrics of Rebel's Girl from Bikini Kill, Beyonce from Partition, and God Is a Woman from Ariana Grande. This study uses Jauss' theory of the Harapan Horizon where the role of the reader is the main key in conducting an investigation of a literary work. This research is a qualitative descriptive literature research using a questionnaire distributed to readers who are used as respondents. Respondents were selected randomly with the aim of knowing the differences in opinion of each respondent in responding to a literary work. The conclusion of this study is that the various opinions obtained are influenced by the diversity of backgrounds of the respondents such as differences in gender, age, level of education and experience. In addition, there are messages obtained by readers through the lyrics, namely; freedom of speech, feminism, inner beauty, and sex education.
Highlights
Humans have various opinions in commenting on a literary work
Literary research generally only focuses on examining the intrinsic elements that exist in a literary work
This is indicated by the number of literary research journals that mostly examine more deeply what is contained in a literary work
Summary
Humans have various opinions in commenting on a literary work. This diversity of opinions will eventually participate in developing research in the literary world. Literary research generally only focuses on examining the intrinsic elements that exist in a literary work. The research focuses on the literary work itself, with the aim of finding out what message the author wants to convey through the literary work. This is supported by the many discussions or conversations in the community about admiring a literary work. The role of the reader who does not know anything about the creative process plays an important role in research, because it is the reader who enjoys, evaluates, and makes use of literary works, even writers who know the intricacies of their work are not considered to exist (Adi, 2011)
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