4 Examples of Subjective and Objective Poetry in Indonesian

Previously, we have discussed and featured examples of physical, platonic, and metaphysical poetry. This time, we will discuss two of them types of poetry others, namely subjective and objective poetry. Subjective poetry is poetry that expresses ideas, thoughts, feelings, and feelings that are felt by the poet himself, while objective poetry is poetry that discusses things outside of himself poet. (from the page bimoindro.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/puisi-subjective-dan-puisi-objektif/)

Subjective poetry can usually be found in example of lyric poetry, examples of romantic poetry, or example of elegy poetry. Meanwhile, objective poetry can also be found in examples of short descriptive poems, examples of dramatic poetry, and examples of narrative poetry.

To better understand what the two poems are like, here are some examples of subjective and objective poetry in puisi language Indonesia taken from various sources.

1. Examples of Subjective Poetry

Sprinkles of Spruce*
By: Chairil Anwar

the fir whistling far away

feels like it's going to be night
there are some branches in the fragile window
hit by the pent-up wind

I am now a person who can stand it
how long have you not been a child anymore
but there used to be something ingredient
which is not the basis of current calculations

life only delays defeat
more isolated from love lower school
and know, something is not said
before we finally give up

1949

*Source, Poetry- Chairil Anwar's poetry (1922-1949), Horizon April 2016 Edition, p 9.

I
By: Chairil Anwar

If it's my time
'I want no one to seduce'
Neither do you

No need for that sedan

I'm a bitch
From the group wasted

Let the bullet pierce my skin
I'm still inflamed crashing

Wounded and I can carry it running
Run
Until the fairy pain disappears

And I would care less

I want to live another thousand years

March 1943

*Source: Chairil Anwar's Poems (1922-1949), Horizon April 2016 issue, p 6.

2. Examples of Objective Poetry

Triad of Beca Lights*
By: Isma Sawitri

triad of pedicab lamps
yes mustapha yes mustapha
triad of pedicab lamps
on the left and on the right
one with red glass
the other one is green
triad of pedicab lamps
carried swinging
the night drifts down the dew
yes mustapha let's go home
to the mosquito's nest to the fly's nest
to the nest of dreams
hat holder
yes mustapha –
cock crow in the morning

*Source: Sapardi Djoko Damono, Saying This Means That, (Jakarta, Gramedia: 2016), pp. 106-107.

Pair of Beca Lights*
By: Sapardi Djoko Damono

For Isma Sawitri

there is a pair of beca lights singing softly at the mouth of the alley
midnight while the brother was asleep before
the drizzle subsides
they have to sing because when it's quiet suddenly
The perfect flower arrived this afternoon from the coffin
passing it will suddenly smell and infiltrate
Beca brother's pores then flow through his blood
so he feels he is imprisoned in a cave
seduced by a thousand angels who took him to Suralaya
and hi goodbye world

*Source: Sapardi Djoko Damono, Folding Distance, (Jakarta, Gramedia: 2015), page 6 with a slight change in the form of poetry.

These are some examples of subjective and objective poetry in English Indonesia taken from various sources. If the reader wants to know some other examples of poetry, the reader can open the article example of epic poetry, or example of ode poetry. Hopefully useful and able to add insight to all readers. That is all and thank you.