Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Languages and Arts across Cultures (ICLAAC 2022)

The Oppressed Class in Lekra Poems

Authors
I Wayan Artika1, *
1Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha, Singaraja, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: wayan.artika@undiksha.ac.id
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I Wayan Artika
Available Online 12 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-29-9_16How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Diction; Lekra poetry; Oppressed Class; Marxis
Abstract

This study aims to examine the representation of the oppressed class in the poetry of Lekra (Lembaga Kebudajaan Rakjat, Institute of People's Culture, 1950–1965) through diction analysis created by poets. Qualitative descriptive approach was chosen as the basis of solving the problem. The data was taken from the anthology of Red Falls which contains one hundred poetry titles. The data were collected by literature study method. Data analysis was carried out in a qualitative descriptive manner. The theory used is the sociology of literature and the theory of Marxism D.N. Aidit. The oppressed class is represented by various variants of diction in the form of phrases. The word “people” is the core of the diction consisting of “farmers” and “laborers”. “The people” according to the Marxist theory of D.N. Aidit is an oppressed class consisting of “peasants” and “workers”. The meaning of diction includes: respecting, strengthening, and ideological conception of the people. The conceptual meaning in diction shows that the poets deepen the concept of the oppressed class. Therefore, Lekra's poems are conceptual and not propaganda.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Languages and Arts across Cultures (ICLAAC 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
12 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-29-9_16
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-29-9_16How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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