poem attack

Aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana

dengan kata yang tak sempat diucapkan

kayu kepada api yang menjadikannya abu

Aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana

dengan isyarat yang tak sempat disampaikan

awan kepada hujan yang menjadikannya tiada

-Sapardi Djoko Damono

Im back folks :3 with another stories

lately im preparing for a boekenles test, by the test we shall be tested after reading a novel or a short story~

it was just a medium level, around 200pages for next term there would be 300 or even 400pages thick of novel to be read and tested Dx

this time i would like to share over this poem

if im not mistaken this poem is a famous poem in indonesia, i suddenly remembered this poem while walking home few days ago, i recall to my introduction to literature at the moment of poem interpretation

its just pop out in my mind, then i think ill go blog it ~

in literature you are free to analyze things that written

sometimes some poems are easy to be understand but not for some others ~

here goes for english translation (hope it suits well) :

I want to love you in simple

with the words that can not be told

by the wood to the fire that turns it into ash

I want to love you in simple

with the signs that can not be delivered

by the cloud to the rain that makes it gone

then ill try to interpret ~

im seeing a connection between dualism and love

the first one is between the wood and the fire

they are both connected, as the wood burned the i turns into ash

the wood cant tell a word to the fire that burned it

also between the cloud and the rain

we know that rain comes from the cloud

but naturally after a rain then the cloud would be gone (doesnt mean it goes somewhere else, but its more like vanish)

in my opinion, over the love that told in the poem is a love that not demanding

both the wood and the cloud cant say anything to the thing that would make them gone

a love with not any of spoken words, just go as the dualism

connected each other because the cycle can not be dispelled

a love that blends, transform both of them into one

at the end i dont mean to be so melancholic, what i intent to show is, sometimes things just cant be described until people try to express it through languange or signs xD

im not so good with poems even i do get them in the class

what i love from literature is a freedom of interpretting the text

we can say " yup, i like your sweet ponnytail" to a friend

doesnt mean your friend's hair tastes like a real candy right?

 then after that you taste her hair xD

maybe its enough for now see you soon :3

-garuru