Poetry is a part of literature that
has a rich meaning ,by poetry the poet or somebody can tell their messages
through it even with a hidden messages or a clear messages. Etymologically, the
word poetry in greek comes from poesis,
which means creation. In English, the equivalent word poetry is poetry that is
closely related to-poet and-poem . Regarding the word poet , Coulter (in Tarin,
1986:4) explains that the wordpoet comes
from the Greek means to make or create.
In the Greek language itself, the word means the person who created the poet
through his imagination, the almost-look like a god or something like the gods. perspicacious people, saints,
which is also a philosopher, statesman, teacher, the person who can guess the
hidden truth.
Shannon Ahmad ( in Pradopo , 1993:6 )
ghatered the definition of poetry that is generally expressed by the English
romantic poets as follows :
1 ) Samuel Taylor
Coleridge poem suggests it is the most beautiful words in a beautiful
arrangement . Poets choose words exactly and prepared as well as possible , for
example a balanced , symmetrical , between one element with another element
very closely berhubungannya , and so on .
2) Carlyle said that
poetry is the thought that is musical . Poet creating the poem thinking
melodious sounds like music in his poetry , the words are arranged in such a
way that stands out is a series of melodious sound like music , is to use orchestra
sound .
3 ) Wordsworth had
the idea that poetry is the expression of imaginative feeling , that feeling
being created or imagined . As Auden poem suggests that it is more an
expression of mingled feelings .
4 ) Dunton argues
that the poem is actually a man's thinking that is concrete and emotional
artistic and rhythmic language . For example , with the figurative , with
images , and artistically arranged ( eg harmony , symmetry , the right choice
of words , and so on ) , and a language full of feeling , as well as rhythmic
as music ( turn the sound of his words regularly sequential ) .
5) shelley suggests
that poetry is the most beautiful footage of life.
example, the
events that lead to a very impressive and strong emotion such as happiness,
excitement mounting, romance, and even sadness because of the death of their
dear ones.
By gathering the
opinions above, we can conclude that the
poem is a form of literature that expresses the thoughts and feelings densely
poet, composed in a form and language that is most memorable. (Aida Aziz,
2011:13)
Poetry
or poem is a complex structure , to understand it needs to be analyzed so as to
know the parts and jalinannya significantly. The builder elements of poetry can
be seen below .
1 ) sound .
Wiyatmi ( in Siti Aida Aziz , 2011:42 ) describes that element of sound in
poetry in his general can be
classified as follows : a) in terms of the sound itself, recognized the
existence of perfect rhyme , half rhyme , alliteration , and assonance .
2 ) Rhythm . Rhythm
in language is a turn down ride , the length short , hard - soft speech sounds
with a regular language . In general it can be concluded that the change of
rhythm in a row on a regular basis .
3 ) Diction .
Diction is the choice of words or phrases in literature ( Abrams , 1981 ) .
4 ) Language
metaphors . Figurative language or figurative language is a departure from the
use of language , the meaning he or she used the circuit with the goal to achieve
a certain effect.
5 ) The images. Altenbernd (1970
) stated , that the images are the images in the mind and language are
described , while each image is called the image of the mind or imagination .
