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2.2 Poetry
Poetry MedL poetry based on Gk poetes ‘doer creator’ . It is a comprehensive term which can be taken to cover any kind of metrical composition.
J. A. Cuddon : 1992 . However, it is usually empolyed with reservations, and often in contradistinction to serve. The implications are that poetry is a superior form of
creation; not necessarily. Therefore, more serious. Poetry ancient Greek : poieo means I create is traditionally a written art form
although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities
in addition to, or instead of, its national and semantic content. The increase emphasis on the aesthetic of a language and deliberate use of
features such as repetition, meter and rhyme are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over such distinctions still persits, while the
issue is confounded by such forms as poetry and prose. Some modrenist such as the Surrealist approach this problem of definition by defining poetry not as a literary
genre within a set of genres, but as the very manifestation of human imagination, the substance which all creative acts derive from.
Poetry often uses condensed form to convey an emotion or idea to the reader or listener, as well as using devices such as assonance, alliteration and repetition to
achieve musical or incantatory effects. Furthermore, poems often make heavy use of imaginary, word association, and musical qualities. Because of its reliance on
“accidental” features of language and connotation meaning, poetry is notoriously difficult to translate. Similarly, poetry use of nuance and symbolism can make it
difficult to interpret a poem or can leave a poem open to multiple interpretations.
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2.3 Concept of God
Concept is that which is conceived in the mind; a general notion or idea. Pei : 1978 .
God is a word that means different things to different people. God is the indescrible, uncreated, self existence, eternal all knowing source of all reality and
being. God is much bigger than the human dimension that it corrects definition by human must be a combination of definitions that only truly fit together as one in the
realm of the infinite. All concise human definitions for God are incomplete because Gos is infinite, and infinitude is almost the opposite of the human dimension.
The God who is known through philosophy and the God whom I experience as ethical will do not coincide. They are one; but how they are one, I don’t understand.
Roy 1947 : 108. Yet, one of the most famous arguments for God’s existence does not rely on
any facts learned from observation or experiment. According to Minton: 1976, there are three kinds for the arguments, they are :
1. Ontological Arguments.
Ontological arguments is an attemp to prove the existance of God with absolute certainty. The concept of God is the concept of “ the
greater conceivable being”. It is impossible to believe that God does not exist, because if you are thinking of something as nonexistent, then
you are not thinhking of the greatest conceivable being, and, hence, you are not thingking of God.
2. Cosmological Arguments.
Thomas Aquinas, the great medieval philosopher thought that any rational proof for the existence of God must make some reference to
Lasmeida Metriana Nababan : Emily Dickinson’s Concept Of God In Some Of Her Poems, 2010.
the nature of the world, and could not rely on concepts alone. In Aquinas’s classic Cosmological Arguments, he argues that God is the
necessary condition for the existence of certain pervasive facts about the world.
3. Teleological Arguments The teleological Arguments compares natural objects and systems
to those objects which are known to have originated by intelligent design, such as clocks, engines, etc
2.4 Puritanism
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