Apple Falls Near the Three: Minangkabau pantun in Malay Literary Aesthetics

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10.2991/978-2-494069-85-5_13How to use a DOI?

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Minangkabau; Malay Pantun; aesthetics

Abstract

Linguistically, Minangkabau is part of the Old Malay (Melayik) subfamily of languages. Therefore, Minangkabau pantun is considered to still contain elements of beauty (aesthetics) of Malay literature. Minangkabau language marriage poems were the object of research in this study. The poem was collected at a wedding ceremony in Air Bangis, West Sumatra. These pantuns were studied based on the beauty principles of Malay literature formulated by Salleh (2006). The research findings show that Minangkabau marriage rhymes still refer to the principle of beauty such as the “vastly condensed world”, “full of allegories”, and “symmetrical forms”. The similarity of philosophy, natural landscape, and culture makes Minangkabau pantun still deeply-connected with the element of beauty in Malay pantuns.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Asmawati
AU  - Muhammad Adek
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/29
TI  - Apple Falls Near the Three: Minangkabau pantun in Malay Literary Aesthetics
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language, Literature, and Education (ICLLE-5 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 112
EP  - 119
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-85-5_13
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-85-5_13
ID  - 2022
ER  -