PENDEKATAN STRUKTURALISME PADA PUISI “GUGUR” KARYA W.S. RENDRA (KAJIAN APRESIASI PUISI)

Abstract

Poetry is a literary work that generally contains expressions of a poet's feelings wrapped in beautiful diction and accompanied by a meaningful style of language. To understand, appreciate, and appreciate a poem specifically, it is necessary to study poetry, of course, by involving a certain approach. One approach that can be used to study poetry is the structuralism approach. Structuralism approach is an approach that emphasizes more on the study of the building elements of the poem itself. In this case, a poem is considered as a unified whole. Furthermore, in this study, the poem that will be analyzed is the poem "Gugur" by W.S. Rendra. W.S. Rendra is an Indonesian poet, playwright, actor and theater director. Since he was young, he has been involved in writing poetry, drama scenarios, short stories, and writing literary essays for various mass media. The research method used is descriptive qualitative using a structural approach. Meanwhile, the purpose of this research is to examine the poem "Gugur" by W.S. Rendra uses a structuralism approach based on the physical elements of poetry and the inner elements of poetry. The physical elements of poetry include diction, rhyme, typography, imagery, concrete words, and language style. Meanwhile, the inner elements of poetry include theme, tone and atmosphere, message, and taste.