Love in Poetic Expression: The Poems of Abdul Wachid BS through Ricoeurian Hermeneutical

Abstract

Love poetry in Indonesian literature cannot be separated from the creative process of poets. That is because poetry is considered as a poet's space in channeling experiences or memories of life including the issue of love. The poet's style in writing love poems is certainly different. This happened because the creative processes possessed by each poet were different including the poet Abdul Wachid BS. Therefore, the expression of love presented in love poetry is not always the same. there are three creative processes of poets, namely individual, social, and religious. The three creative processes are mutually sustainable, but there are only one of the three things put forward by the poet Abdul Wachid BS. Based on the initial reading, anthology of poetry is Hyang's Abdul Wachid BS'smore directed towards encouragement individual, including the encouragement of love. This encouragement is manifested in metaphorical expressions. Through these two things, the expression of the love metaphor in poetry book Hyang's can be interpreted more deeply with Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic perspective method. Keywords—poetry, hermeneutics, metaphor.