The Importance of Environmental Materials in Indonesian Language Learning

The environment is very important for human life. However, there are many issues regarding the environment. These environmental problems are a result of the low awareness of the environment. Therefore, environmental materials are needed in learning. Environmental material can be inserted in various materials such as in writing argumentative texts. This can make students not only care about the environment but also able to write argumentative texts well. In addition, environmental materials can also be integrated with persuasive speech writing materials. Persuasive speech can influence other people to protect the environment. Finally, environmental materials can be included in poetry writing materials. Students can write poetry with environmental themes.

O professor como escritor e pesquisador

Tradução do artigo “Teacher as Writer and Researcher: The Poetry Dilemma”, de Patrick Bizzaro,2 publicado originalmente em 1983, na revista Language Arts (v. 60, n. 7). No artigo, o autor reflete sobre suas práticas de ensino de escrita de poesia em relação à sua própria escrita poética, ou seja, sobre as implicações da personalidade multifacetada do professor de Escrita Criativa – teórico, escritor e pesquisador – em suas formas de ensinar. Num primeiro momento, embasa suas reflexões nas três abordagens utilizadas no ensino de escrita de poesia levantadas por Lucky Jacobs no artigo “Three Approaches to the Teaching of Poetry Writing” (1977): abordagem por modelos, abordagem por atividades e abordagem por modelos e atividades. Em seguida, reflete sobre o próprio processo de criação, analisando diferentes estágios da composição de um de seus poemas. Por fim, discute as descobertas proporcionadas pelo processo de autoanálise empreendido, estabelecendo pontes entre pesquisa, ensino e criação. Apesar de ter sido publicado há quase 40 anos, o artigo é uma contribuição relevante para o campo acadêmico da Escrita Criativa no Brasil, em seu atual momento de consolidação e expansão.

Increasing Poetry Writing Skills Through Media Collection Of Pandemi Themes Of Short Film On Students Class 1 State 1 Sma Krian Sidoarjo

ABSTRACT This study aimed to improve students’ ability in writing poetry through the medium of short film collection with a pandemic theme. The subjects of this study were the First grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Krian. The results showed that the poetry writing skills of the First grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Krian, Sidoarjo district, had increased. In preliminary study, it was identified that the students' poetry writing skills reached a complete level of 34.61% and an incomplete level of 65.38%. Then, after conducting two cycles, the first cycle reached the level of completion 42. 30% and the level of incompleteness 57.69%. Meanwhile, the second cycle indicated 76.92% level of completion and 23.07% level of incomplete. In conclusion, learning to write poetry through a collection of short films with the theme of pandemic is helpful for students of language class in SMAN 1 Krian Sidoarjo. It could increase their ability in writing poetry. Thus, the researcher suggest the teacher to choose varied learning media in order to enhance their students’poetry writing skill.

Can Female Speak? Anna Laetitia Barbauld, a Legacy for Women Poets

In Romanticism the poet was considered as a prophet, an unknown illustrative speaking for the whole of humanity; however, woman poets were marginalized. The existent study accompaniments implication as the consequences can shade sunnier on why women poets as vigorous and operative supporters of Romanticism period futile to overcome their defensible place among the main poets of the time in spitefulness of their positive community planetary. Females wanted to be documented and acknowledged as human beings in general and poets indefinite. By providing a thorough investigation of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, this study has explored how she possesses her faultless feminine image while she trails a profession outside of the domestic domain. Anna Laetitia Barbauld transfers the absorbing visionary image of a new woman and competes with the male-oriented concept that women could not and should not engage in poetry writing.

On the main-meta-song by Bulat Okudzhava

The article analyses Bulat Okudzhava’s ‘The Main Song’ [‘Glavnaya pesenka’] (1962). The poem’s metapoetic leitmotif and expressive structure are examined in a broader context of corresponding common literary motifs, Okudzhava’s poetic invariants, and immediately contemporary subtexts, including in song lyrics. The intertextual field comprises poems of the same metric structure, namely, three-foot amphibrachs. M. Gasparov specified themetre’s appropriate halos: suggestions of a drinking song ( ‘zazdravnaya,’ sung to toast someone’s health); a ballad; an allusion to Heine’s manner (memory, dreams, daily life); a Romantic intonation; and, lastly, a ceremonial verse, including metapoetic works, i.e., written by poets about poetry (namely, V. Bryusov’s, A. Akhmatova’s, and V. Khodasevich’s poems). Okudzhava’s ‘The Main Song’ belongs with the aforementioned series, as well as with poems united by the leitmotif of walking (departing), rejection and the actual process of poetry writing. A detailed analysis of Okudzhava’s intertext and method helps reveal the originality of the poet’s take on a traditional topic.

It’s All Just Poetry: Writing ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah’s Life

The relationship between poetry and the poet’s life is complex, and reading a poem for biographical material can become a problematic exercise that constrains a poem’s interpretative possibilities. When writing about ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah (d. 93AH/712AD or 103/721), biographers and historians have shown a marked ambivalence in this regard. In early anecdotal narratives about his life and romantic adventures, events appear to derive their source material from episodes found in his poetry, whereas in later biographies of the poet, the poems tend to be understood as depicting emotional and symbolic truths, even if the events described did not actually happen. In either method of writing about ʿUmar’s life, the biographer finds the poet’s life story and persona to be filled with contradictions that are difficult to resolve. The embedding of poetry into anecdotes that narrate the poet’s life (in the form of events or emotional truths) resembles the tafsīr of the Qur’an through the Prophetic sīrah, in which Qur’anic verses are explained through the cementing of the text’s open-ended hermeneutic possibilities into fixed events and contexts. This article examines this relationship as a textual practice evolving through different biographies of the poet, and argues that the relationship points to a way of reading that presupposes a measure of extra-textual reality in the text, even where such a presupposition constructs an impossible biographical narrative replete with contradictions.