sociology of literature can be justified. The first from of justification is in the epistemological sense of term realist: is in fact deeply conditioned by its social
context and any critical account of it which omits this fact is therefore automatically deficient. The second way is pragmatist: literature is in fact shaped
by all kinds of factors and readable in all sorts’ contexts, but highlighting its social determinants is useful and desirable from particular political stand point”.
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The Sociological critic assert that since all men are the product of a particular of time and place, we can never truly understand a work without some
understanding of social forces that molded the author and all that he did and thought.
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Many art works are used as a media to socialize the idea and opinion, one of art works is poem. Many poets use this media, in this context as media to
reflect the history and condition as approach to reduce prejudice, show the freedom, and to show the right of individual that whole people are equal and the
people should not be discriminated based on their ethnic or race.
A. Understanding The Poem
1. Definition of Poem
Word “poetry” comes from Greece “Poeima”, means “make” or” Poeisis” means “making”. Poetry is meant as “make” or “making”, because the poet
2
Terry eagleton, Literature and Social Practice,ed.Philippe desan,Priscilla Parkhust Fergusson and Wendy Griswold,Chicago: The University Of Chicago Press, 1995,p.90
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Ed. Richard abcarian and marvin klotz, Literature The Human Experience Newyork, St Martin Press Second Edition,1978,p.1126
actually achieved “making” a new world with his own couplet which can realized through the certain messages and atmosphere, even internal and external
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. Poetry may be defined as the medium to convey poet’s ideas or experiences. Through
poems the poet can express his internal feeling to the world in response to the problem around him
A poem is a verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language
chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.
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Poetry might define as a kind of language that say more and says intensely and does ordinary language.
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William Wordsworth defines poem as the spontaneous of powerful feeling, it take origin feeling from emotion recollected in tranquility.
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Leight Hunt defines a poem as the utterance of passion for truth, beauty, and power embodying and illustrating its conceptions by imagination and fancy,
and modulating its language on the principle of variety in unity”.
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Macaulay defines a poem as “the art of employing words in such manner
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Aminuddin, Pengantar Apresiasi Karya Sastra, Bandung, Penerbit Angkasa, 1987p.134
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http; www.thefreedictionary.compoem.9192007 8;02 PM
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Perrine Laurence 1969,Loc Cit p.3
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Drury John, Creating Poetry; How to begin A poem, Use Word Combination And view Form: Apply the Lessons From Master Poets to Individual Poems to Individual Poems , Choose
and uses Images and Words carefully and much more, New York; F W publications Inc, 1991. p.5.
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Ibid
as to produce as illusion on the imagination. Poem is the art of doing by means of words what the colors”.
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B. Sociology of Literature
