Poetry Analysis

NO REGRET

Time may take us far away

My memory remains anyway

I caught a sight of you on that sudden day

For a while that I thought you would stay

Starring you I was wrapped up by my yearning face

Why did you spilt no smile no word no gaze?

You held your tongue though timelessly I called your name

As under the mask you spun around your face

 

That flashy cool style you’ve been shown

I didn’t know what has gone but I felt  I’ve been thrown

I was such an idiot, ensuring now that we have grown

And yet indeed you still looked me down

First, HUH… Second, what? Third, really!

Did you wash your memory clean about me?

Or your fame and bumptiousness made you blind buddy?

No big, cause finally I’ve got a silly thing I learned to forget hardly

By : I Gusti Ayu Diah Pusparini

In that poetry, the speaker is actually me. My inspiration came up because of an experience. That experience flowed like this. About several days ago, I attended an event at Kampus Tengah Undiksha. At that time, I saw my old friend. We were classmates when we were in the kindergarten and elementary school. I was always excited when I met my old friend because we could talk about so many things. I’ve never met him since a long time; so I was a little bit surprised. He walked right in front of me. I starred him all the time. I smiled to him and called his name. However, he pretended like he didn’t see me or even didn’t know me. Whenever I called name again and again, he was just turning his face away. He kept talking to his friends. His attitude showed that he thought he was gorgeous, handsome, and classy. He was endlessly showing off even he looked so stupid cute, and annoying. His weird eyesight indicated that he looked down on me and I felt so low. I have no idea why he can’t just say ‘hi’ or something. In fact, we always met by chance and he always did it to me.

 I experienced that kind of thing several times. I was often neglected when I tried to greet my old friends whenever we met. I don’t mind if they forget about me. But this man is my neighbor and we were close in the past. Knowing that he was famous now, so maybe he was too shy to talk to someone like me. I couldn’t take it anymore. I was running out of patience. I was just so mad and I felt like that was the accumulation of my displeasure. Later, finally I realize that it wasn’t a big deal. I was just trying to be kind to everybody. I was like a fool that I thought about that all the time while he never cares about me at all. Now, I just take it easy and I hope I won’t be hurt so bad if I face such kind of thing again. The title of my poetry is No Regret means that I don’t regret anything about that and I will always trying to be kind again and again.

My purpose of making this poetry is that I want to bring the real sense and the emotion about how I feel to the reader through word for word. I think that many people may experience a situation that they feel like a silly people but they don’t, so my poetry may let them imagine that situation. I just want to convince them that it doesn’t a big thing to think about. I want them to realize that they shouldn’t be really offense because someone has been rude and shown lack of respect. What they need to do is to stay confident and walk on their own.

Figurative Language

         I use some figurative language to make my poetry looks cool. Those figurative languages are as follows:

¯ Connotation

‘Starring you I was wrapped up by my yearning face’

‘Or your fame and bumptiousness made you blind buddy?’

‘You held your tongue though timelessly I called your name’

Connotation compares things by emotional association. The phrasal verb ‘wrapped up’ doesn’t really mean that I was enclosed by my yearning face. How could it be? It means that actually I was too excited since I never met my friend for a long time. In line two, ‘blind’ doesn’t means that my friend’s eyes exactly blind means that my friend maybe forgot at all about me. in line three ‘held your tongue’ means silent.

¯ Simile

 ‘As under the mask you spun around your face’.

The simile in this line compares someone personality. I assume that my friend who pretend didn’t see me is someone who seems like wear a mask. Simile compares things by using words ‘like, as, than, similar to, etc. In this case I use ‘as’.

¯ Personification

‘Time may take us far away’

‘Did you wash your memory clean about me?’

Personification is used to make inanimate things seems like having human qualities. ‘Time’ actually cannot drive us away. The meaning actually is that time passed for a long long while. In line two, the memory actually couldn’t be washed up. The meaning actually is that nothing left in my friend’s memory about me.

¯ Imagery

‘I caught a sight of you on that sudden day’

The line above contains kinesthetic imagery which represents movement.

¯ Overstatement

‘That flashy cool style you’ve been shown’

I use overstatement to show my friend’s attitude which was really pretentious about himself. He wasn’t really that incredible, dazzling, or sparkling.

¯ Understatement

‘I didn’t know what has gone but I felt I’ve been thrown’

I use understatement to describe how I felt of being neglected or push aside. I wasn’t really been thrown away like a trash.

Pattern

My poetry has a stanzaic form. It has four series of stanzas and every stanza has the same number of lines. Every stanza has four lines, so they are called quatrain. So my poetry consists of four quatrains. I didn’t consider about the meter such like iambic, trochaic, or anapestic and also the foot such like pentameter or hexameter because I am not sure that I can make it. However, I do consider about the rhyme. Even I never make poetry with rhyming scheme before; I bravely make it for this final project. My poetry rhymes are arranged aaaa, bbbb, cccc, dddd. Rhyme ‘a’ stands for away, anyway, day, and stay. Rhyme ‘b’ stands for face, gaze, name, and face. Rhyme ‘c’ stands for shown, thrown, grown and down. Rhyme ‘d’ stands for really, me, buddy, and hardly. Mostly the rhymes of my poetry are assonance, the repetition of vowel sounds. Some of them are also combination between assonance and alliteration such as in rhyme ‘d’.