Ide Kebangsaan dalam Puisi Antara Sajak-sajak M. Yamin dan Sejumlah Sajak Karya Penyair Malaysia

• Main Author: Sunu Wasono
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Indonesia 2015-02-01
• Series: Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
• Subjects: sastra indonesia, sastra malaysia, sajak, ide kebangsaan.
• Online Access: http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/352

show that Indonesian and Malaysian literatures grew and developed out of<br />the same old tradition, namely Malay tradition. Indonesian and Malaysian languages are<br />also rooted in the same language, namely, the Malay language. It only makes sense that there<br />a number of similarities<br />This paper discusses the nationalist ideas found in the poems of M. Yamin published in<br />Indonesia Tumpah Darahku and a number of poems produced by 10 Malaysian poets. These<br />Malaysians’ poems are found in a poetry anthology titled Puisi-puisi Kebangsaan 1913—1957<br />(nationalist poems 1913—1957) compiled by Abdul Latif Abu Bakar and published in 1987.<br />Based on a comparison of these two sets of poems, some similarities can be discerned, such as<br />admiration of natural beauty, admiration of past heroes and glories, and appeal by the poets<br />for national unity. These similarities are made possible by similar political and cultural situations<br />prevailing in both Indonesia and Malaysia in certain period of time. The relation between<br />Indonesia and Malaysia that is tied by a common language (Malay) and a sense of being in<br />the same situation (colonial oppression) are other factors that allow a number of Indonesian<br />and Malaysian poets to write poems of similar themes in similar styles.