Jamaliyyah Al-Lughah As-Syi’riyyah Bayna Qasidatai “Ashiq Min Filastin” Li Mahmoud Darwish Wa “Talang Di Langit Falastin” Li Dheni Kurnia: Dirasah Muqaranah

Abstract

Mahmoud Darwish and Dheni Kurnia both are contemporary poets who use their poems to
defend the land of Palestine. Mahmoud Darwish is of Arab origin, while Dheni Kurnia
originated from the Malay land. Both of them play an important role in increasing the value of
poem literature, especially in emphasizing the Palestinian cause through their writing. In fact,
their poems were recognized through various awards. Because of that, researchers choose to
analyze their respective poems, hence they come out with comparative study between these two
poems, Āsyik min Filastin”, by a Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and “Talang di Langit
Filastin”, by an Indonesian poet Dheni Kurnia. The objective of this research is to emphasize
the creative writing of the two poems, as well as to examine the similarities and differences
between them. This research adopted the School of American methodology in which it
compares the similarities and differences between two different poems. In addition, the
descriptive method is used to describe and analyze the aesthetic elements in both poems in
terms of their linguistics and rhetoric. In the end of the study, the researchers found that both
poets used interesting poetic imagery in their poems to portray the Palestinian cause. However,
Mahmoud Darwish used this element more than Dheni Kurnia, and this is surely to ensure that
the reader can really feel the hope and the pain felt by the Palestinians. Meanwhile from the
linguistic perspective, the researchers observe that Mahmoud Darwish uses a lot of verbal
sentences showing that he is hoping for the freedom of his country whereas Dheni Kurnia’s
poem varied by the usage of more nominal sentences which represent a simpler and direct
meaning so that it can be easily understood.