Yogyakarta, 8 December 2015
By Simon and Garfunkel
Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
A. Lyric Translation
Apakabarkegelapan,
temanlamaku
Akudatangkembaliuntukberbincangdenganmu
Karenaimpianmasadepan
yang perlahanmenjalar
Meninggalkanpikiransaatakutertidur
Dan
impianmasadepan yang teranam di kepala
Masihterngiang
Dalambenak
B. Lyric Translation for Song
Helo,
malamtemanku
Ku
datangbincangdenganmu
Impianperlahanmenjalar
Lepasangansaattertidur
Impian yang
tertanam di benak
Terngiang
Di
dalamkeheningan
C. Explication
1. Elismawati (5130511010)
1.Darkness : malam
2.come to talk : datanguntukberbicara
"Hello darkness, my old friend
I`ve come to talk with you again"
»a condition who never happened to
convertation between them because a diferent of status social.
3.You:kamu,anda
I choose the meaning of "you"
is "Anda" because someone in here has high status social and he has
released a vision.
4. vision :pandangan, impian, visi
I choose the meaning of
"vision" is "visi" because the meaning of "you"
on it is a leader. The organization has a vision to give a spirit for changed
5. "Because a vision softly
creeping"
"and the vision the vision that was
planted in my brain still remains"
"within the sound of silence"
It meansa promise of leader who ever released
to society for prosperity to them but the fact is unproved.
2. IrfanSuryana (5130511018)
1. The title is The
Sound of Silence
a. The title
contains two core words
They are sound
and silence. Those words have contrary meaning. “Sound” refers to voice, volume
tools or thing, noise, and tone. In the contrast, “silence” refers to quiet,
stillness, noiselessness, soundlessness, muteness, and speechlessness.
b. Of
Here, “of” means
from.
From the
beginning this lyric has contrary meaning. How come, silence can produce the
sound. However, it happens. The meaning of the title is the sound or message in
a dream.
B. Explicating
Each Stanza
a. The first
stanza
Going to
explication in first stanza
1) Hello
darkness, my old friend
It has a
figurative language. That is personification. It can be seen between “Hello
darkness” and “my old friend”. It means a lyrical speaker contends that
darkness is his friend. Why? Because darkness is a thing that always
accompanies him when the night comes.
2) I’ve come to
talk with you again
“I” refers to
lyrical speaker and “you” refers to darkness. That case happens when he will
sleep in the night. “Talk” means he will get a dream.
3) Because a
vision softly creeping
It has
figurative language. That is personification. It can be seen from “vision” and
“creeping”. The meaning of this part is a lyrical speaker always remembers
about his vision and he wants to make it comes true. That is why he will sleep.
On his mind, he thinks that maybe in his sleeping he will find something that
is similar to his vision.
4) Left its
seeds while I was sleeping
Here, “Left”
refers to vision and “seeds” means lyrical speaker’s thought. That thought can
be about his problem, or some sort. His problem can be disappear when he is
sleeping.
5) And the
vision that was planted in my brain
“That was
planted” means the vision will not be forgotten because he always remembers
that. It has a figurative language as well. That is personification. It can be
seen from the words “vision” and “that was “planted”.
6) Still remains
Lyrical
speaker’s vision is still remembered up to now.
7) Within the
sound of silence
The meaning of
the last part in the last stanza is almost similar to the title but there is a
word “Within”. So, lyrical speaker’s vision is still remembered but he cannot
express and he is the only person who knows about it.
3. DewiAndriani (5130511022)
Some
words that have similar or related words or even the synonym of its word
meaning:
·
Sound : voice, murmur, whisper,
aside
·
Silence : quite, calm, tranquil, restful,
peaceful, still, relaxed
·
Darkness : black, gloom, night, blindness, depressed,
sad,
·
Old friend : best friends
·
Vision : sight, eyesight, view, shadow,
reflection, dream, image, inspiration
·
Creeping : crawl, spread, vine, stalk, worm
·
Seeds : germ, descent, source, body,
fountain, root, frame
·
Planted : inveterate
“Sound of Silence” by Simon and Garfunkel is one of
the songs that has poetic lyric.
Firstly, start from the title there are ‘sound’ and ‘silence’. What
means by the words? Literary ‘sound’ has relation meaning voice, murmur, and
whisper. While, ‘silence’ has synonym quite, calm, restful, peaceful, relaxed,
and so on. Based on it, ‘sound of silence’ relates as mind. Every people have
mind that must be only those who know the truth. It exists but in silence,
because there is nobody will know what you exactly thinking if you not tell it
to other.
The first and the second line, there is ‘darkness’
diction. ‘Darkness’ does not exactly mean as black or dark, it also can have
meaning as gloom, night, depressed, or even sad feeling. It is also has
positive meaning or relation. ‘Darkness’ is usually in black or night nuance,
sometimes except the sad or depressed feeling comes, calm or quite nuance will
also feel. This atmosphere is quite good to brood over. Whereas, ‘old friend’
shows that ‘darkness’ is something familiar to the author. It is not the first
time when the author meets ‘darkness’. Even, the author is very familiar with
that kind feeling.
The next is the third and the fourth line, in this
line the author tells that he inherited a dream. It sees from the ‘vision’ that
also means dreams in the future. While, ‘seeds’ also has many relation words
meaning such as body, source, dream, image, or even inspiration. It can also
have meaning as a heritage for the author. ‘Creeping’ in the third line shows
that the ‘vision’ is going bigger and bigger. The author feels that it
bothering him until he cannot sleep in the night.
The last part of the first stanza presents if the
dream firmly embeddedinauthor’s mind. The dream is bothering
him more and more until the author always think about it. However, the dream he
has is still remains in his mind. The author still keeps it in his mind and
does not tell him to anyone, it comes from ‘within the sound of silence’.
Briefly, the first stanza of ‘Sound
of Silence’ by Simon and Garfunkel presents a story of a man that has dreams in
his mind but he cannot tell him to anyone else. He only keeps it in his own
mind. He only can meet the ‘darkness’, to brood over.
4. SitiLatifah (5130511040)
1. The author accosts the darkness.
Darkness here means loneliness. Long time ago he/she has an intimate time in
the middle of night to daydreaming or introspection about his/her life. And now
he/she back to introspect again.
2. A vision about future split from
his/her mind and into his/her dream when he/she was sleeping.
3. A vision about future that he/she has
been thought before it still remains in his/her brain and it appears again.
4. The vision that was planted in
his/her brain blends in the silence.
5.
Theodora Anggraeni (5130511046)
1.
“Hello darkness my old friend”
The
darkness in here is representing ignorance or gloomy condition. The darkness is
to show how people's ignorance and apathy destroys their ability to communicate
even on simple levels. The writer calls the darkness as his old friend. Old in
here refers to the past situation which very close to the writer so that he
calls it his old friend. The darkness is situation that has happened.
2.
“Because a vision softly creeping”
A
vision itself means thought, notion, and idea. The thought creeps softly. The
thought that had by each people, the opinion about anything around them. The
thought or opinion which should be told in order to avoid the darkness
situation.
The
newly inspired social activist is established by the lyrics of the first
stanza: “a vision softly creeping, / left its seeds while I was sleeping”
3.
“And the vision that was planted in my brain”
It
refers to a great thought about changes that has planted for a long time and
there is no time to express that thought.
4.
“Within the sounds of silence”
The
sounds of silence itself refers to people are not allowed to express their
opinion.
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