21 The second poem is “Pants 2”. This original title of the poem is “Celana
2” which is also included into “Celana” anthology. It was written in 1996. It is the poem which has 8 stanzas and 20 lines. It has no certain rhyme. Linda Owens also
translated it into English. The poem is about the students who have incomplete understanding of pants.
The last poem is “Pants 3” which was written in 1996. Its original title is
“Celana 3” which is also included into “Celana” anthology. It is the poem which has 5 stanzas and 17 lines. It has no certain rhyme. Linda Owens also translated
this poem into English. The poem is about the man and the girl who have a different perspective in seeing pants.
3.2 Approach of the Study
The focus of the study is to reveal the symbolic meaning of pants in Joko Pinurbo’s “Pants 1”, “Pants 2”, and “Pants 3”. This study used an existentialism
approach. The existentialism theory used in this study, is the existentialism of Sartre. The writer chose this approach because the writer believed that
existentialism is very appropriate to analyze the relationship between the symbols and the existences and essences of human being. In addition, Nordmeyer 1949
stated, “…only when these pursuits pretend to have plumbed the ultimate secret of
human existence…” p.585. This approach was used as the form to change the human beings subjective.
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3.3 Method of the Study
In completing the analysis of this study, the writer used library research. According to George 2008, library research is an investigation involving
accepted facts, unknown, speculations, logical procedures rigorously applied, verification, evaluation, repetition, and ultimately an interpretation of findings
what extends understanding. The writer chose the library research because the writer believed the library research is fit for this study. The library research helped
the writer to analyze the poems. George 2008 also suggested that in library research there are some
important words, which have to be understood. They are to find, source, and tool. To find means to discover the facts about, to identify the existence of anything. It
means that in library research, we are in pursuit of discovering the facts about the things that we want. In here also, source means the evidence that supplies at least
a partial answer to our research question. Finally, tools are anything that either encapsulates common knowledge or points you to a source.
There would be some steps that had to be done by the writer. The writer should do some steps. The first step was choosing the three selected poems. The
writer read the poems for several times in order to get better understanding. The writer also read the original version of the poem since the poems were written
originally in Bahasa Indonesia. The second step was the writer was making some notes of the poem. Third, the writer had to find and read the related theories.
Fourth, the writer analyzed the symbolic meaning of the ‘pants’ based on the
