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AGAIN THE PROBLEM OF REASON

Sensory reasoning in poetry, for me, always gets the achievement so that the poetry that is written is easier to understand. Sensory reasoning means, testimony to this nature according to the five senses. Someone wrote something like, "I hear the roses are blooming in the morning." If you read it at a glance, there could be no problem. But does it really sound like the rose bloom? Phrases that are meaningful according to the senses of roses are written, "the skin blooms in the morning." Based on sensory reasoning, we can disassemble a poem, is it steady, or is it still violating sensory reasoning? Let's take a look at the poem written by Warsono, entitled FOUR FOUR EIGHT EIGHT. Open the door with the walls of the board I stepped on the ground floor I think this is hope So that life is not too hard "I opened the clapboard door," would it be called clapboard, or was it made of plank? Doors are doors, and walls are walls. The most appropriate word to desc

CONSISTENCY

A poem, if it is to be written in symbolic words, or with diction which symbolizes something, for example a symbol of nature, should be written consistently, from beginning to end. We do this, in order to make it easier for readers to understand the poetry we write. Especially for teachers, one of the audience for the poetry is students, then it is always an instinct to educate, it is born from the heart. If you want to write wild and free poetry, it means that the atmosphere of the socialization of the poetry must be in the realm of pure artists. But the teacher will always be on two legs. One leg, still in the education area, the other leg, may indeed reach the artistic area. About this consistency, sometimes I like to be surprised by the little things that make me ponder, whether this diction is needed to be changed, so that it is more in tune, or leave it at that, but maybe the reader can also understand and enjoy it. There is the phrase "sprig of the moon" in Lilis Gusti