Society Definition of Terms 1. Timorese
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elements from the past to shape the future to reflections on the deprivations and sufferings of the people under colonial rule Amuta: 189.
M eanwhile in The “Contract” in Netos Poetry, Bras, states the poetry of
Neto is often perceived as one of combat, revolutionary verses which primary objective is to awaken the poet‟s compatriots and to help them become aware of their
unenviable plight as a colonized people. Neto‟s Sacred Hope is a portrayal of oppressed classes and society, but Neto still believes in human will for self-
determination: Neto‟s is poetry of hope. Although sacred Hope is essentially a study of the
oppressed classes in an equally oppressed society and of the subjective conditions that create, or preclude the creation, of a revolutionary
consciousness, the poet refuses to allow the often tragic realities of the moment to overwhelm his absolute trust in the human will for selfliberation
Bras: 92. Brass also adds that Sacred Hope is also a reflection of Netos realizations that
the end of War World II will have no positive impact on the Angolans. Young Angolan men will still continue to be forced to abandon their homes and their
families to fulfil a contract to which they have not agreed. Furthermore, Arana 2008: 310 states that
Neto‟s Sacred Hope is a portrayal of his own struggle against Portuguese Apartheid Regime and confronting western civilization towards Angolans
which is portrayed in his poem Civilizacon Ocidental Western Civilization. Neto‟s
poetry raises national consciousness to struggle against the Portuguese regime: Neto‟s Poetry and his life‟s struggle for national liberation and socialism are
intertwined. He uses poetry to condemn colonialism and to persuade the poor of the need liberation. The Secret Hope is used to confront and oppose
oppression and the unnamed Apartheid by Angola‟s Portuguese colonizers.
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Netos poems tear down façade of civility and enlightenment to attack the violence and poverty underpinning western civilization and its colonial
projects Arana: 310.
Those studies on Neto‟s Antology The Sacred Hope above are mainly focus on how poets in oppressed nations use poetry as a vehicle or tool to fight against
colonialism. This study is not only focuses on the Timorese struggle during Portuguese rule and Suharto‟s military regime in which poetry can be an outlet for
speaking up in idea of freedom but poetry can be a way to portray concept of freedom. The main difference of this study on poetry from researchers Marques,
Amuta, Brass, and Victoria Ana is that poetry not only instrument of struggle but also can main as source to portray concept of freedom in political, social, and cultural.
Furthermore, the writer reveals poetry is a new form of expression, and a new frontier for individual and nations for liberty.