1.

Maksud perkataan penyajak adalah / The meaning of penyajak is :

poet; poetess.

sumber : http://mykamus.com/free/2010/09/penyajak/
2. Orang yg mengarang sajak (puisi, syair); penyair; pengarang sajak (puisi):

sumber : Khairil Anwar adalah - dr Angkatan '45

http://www.artikata.com/arti-376334penyajak.html

3.

poet is one who writes verses

and one who does not write verses
a poet is one who throws off fetters
and one who puts fetters on himself
a poet is one who believes
and one who cannot bring himself to believe
a poet is one who has told lies
and one who has been told lies
one who has been inclined to fall
and one who raises himself
a poet is one who tries to leave
and one who cannot leave
source : Who is a Poet, by Tadeusz Rosewicz (translated from the
Polish by Magnus Krynski and Robert Maguire )
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/poetry/whopoet.html

4. a person who composes poetry,

a person who has the gift of poetic thought, imagination, and creation,together with eloqu
ence of expression.
sumber :http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/poet

5 poetic, poetical, poetry

source: Dictionary.com Unabridged

(Based on the Random House Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2015)
http://dictionary.reference.com/cite.html?qh=poet&ia=luna

6.

source : THE DAILY BEAST

http://www.thedailybeast.com/?source=dictionary

Ehrlich is an American travel writer, fiction writer, poet, and essa

yist.
The National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction September 17,
2013

Khalil Gibran, the Lebanese poet best known to readers here for
his 1923book The Prophet, begins
the anthology.
Literature's Clash of Civilizations Oscar Villalon November 16,
2010

poet Elizabeth Spires introduces children to Dickinson in the cha

rmingillustrated tale, The Mouse of Amherst.
Emily Dickinson's Racy Side Donna Seaman February 28, 2010

BRITISH DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS FOR POET EXPAND

7. a person who writes poetry

a person with great imagination and creativity

source: C13: from Latin pota, from Greek poits maker,

poet, from poiein to make
Collins English Dictionary - Complete &
Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986
HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007,
2009, 2012

WORD ORIGIN AND HISTORY FOR POET

early 14c., "a poet, a singer" (c.1200 as a surname), from Old French poete
(12c., Modern French pote) and directly from,
Latin poeta "a poet," fromGreek poetes "maker, author, poet," variant of poietes, from
poein, poiein"to make, create, compose," from PIE *kwoiwo- "making," from root*kwei- "t
o pile up, build, make" (cf. Sanskrit cinoti "heaping up, piling up,"Old Church Slavonic in
u "act, deed, order").
Replaced Old English scop (which survives in scoff ). Used in 14c., as inclassical langua
ges, for all sorts of writers or composers of works ofliterature. Pote maudit, "a poet insu

fficiently appreciated by hiscontemporaries," literally "cursed poet," attested by 1930, fro

m French(1884, Verlaine). For poet laureate see laureate.

RELATED ABBREVIATIONS FOR POET EXPAND

poet, poetic, poetical, poetry

source : The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary,
Third Edition, Copyright 2005 by Houghton Mifflin
Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All
rights reserved.

CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD POEM

1. A good poem must be well written with a concise and accurate use of language. The great
advantage of poetry is that it can encapsulate ideas in the minimum of words. This is one of
the main distinguishing features of poetry as compared to prose.
2. A good poem should be able to lift the reader out of the ordinary and give glimpses of a
more illumining reality.
3. A matric quality of language. Prose seeks to explain, poetry merely states. Good poetry is
not an argument but convinces the reader through its own power
A good poem should engage the heart of the reader it should be more than mere intellectual
cleverness.
5. Good poetry can offer hope from seemingly painful experience. Many great poets deal
with our fear of death there poetry offers an alternative view to the pessimism that can
pervade man.
6. Poetry from the heart. Good poetry can never be faked. There is a saying that a poet is
born not made Whether this is true or not writing poetry is not like learning to write by rote.
7. Good poetry is poetry that we can feel an identification. Whether it is a rhyming sonnet of
Shakespeare or a simple statement of W.Carlos Williams we feel in very good poetry that it
articulates our own inner feeling. There does not seem a separation between poet and
reader. The reader himself can feel a oneness with the poet. In this poem Sri
Chinmoy identifies with struggling humanity and at the same time offers a Seers vision of a
better future.

source : Article by: R.Pettinger 4/01/07

http://www.shortpoems.org/poems/what_makes_good_poem.html

7 Elements to a Good Poem

1. A good poem is formal, i.e. it has a shape and a design.

2. A good poem is rhythmical, i.e. it has a metrical beat (e.g. rhymed poetry) or a
musical quality (e.g. the cadence of free verse).
3. A good poem is complex, i.e. new things are found in it each time its read.
4. A good poem is significant, i.e. it means something other than mindless waffle.
5. A good poem is intense, i.e. it concentrates upon essentials.

6. A good poem is concrete, i.e. it is written about real things and real situations, in real
words.
7. A good poem is exact, i.e. the poet has turned the idea, the emotion, from something
general to something specific.

source: http://www.taurangawriters.org.nz/elements-of-a-good-poem.html

source : How to Write a Good Poem: Three Essential Elements

by D. Patrick Miller

Elements of Poetry
POETRY ASSUMPTIONS
Readers of poetry often bring with them many related assumptions:

That a poem is to be read for its "message,"

That this message is "hidden" in the poem,

The message is to be found by treating the words as symbols which naturally do not
mean what they say but stand for something else,

You have to decipher every single word to appreciate and enjoy the poem.

There are no easy ways to dispel these biases. Poetry is difficult because very often its
language is indirect. But so is experience - those things we think, feel, and do. The lazy
reader wants to be told things and usually avoids poetry because it demands commitment
and energy. Moreover, much of what poetry has to offer is not in the form of hidden
meanings. Many poets like to "play" with the sound of language or offer an emotional insight
by describing what they see in highly descriptive language. In fact, there can many different
ways to enjoy poetry; this reflects the many different styles and objectives of poets
themselves.
source : http://learn.lexiconic.net/elementsofpoetry.htm

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What is a poem made of?

Elements of poetry
imagery | diction | sound | metaphor | theme | saying something new
five elements of poetry (from CyberEnglish9)
Imagery
Imagery is what occurs when poets use words that appeal to our senses: we perceive,
through his or her words, a sense idea or image: these images can appeal to all six senses:
sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, and balance. Imagery is important in a poem because it is
language that allows us to be transported to place, time, and experience, which, if the image
is effective, allows us to understand the emotion being conveyed in the poem. Imagery
allows the poet to show us and keeps him or her from simply telling us.
We can only know the world through the senses; we must perceive first and reason second.
Imagery is critical to understanding.
Imagism refers to the idea that an image, presented on its own, in a poem, has the power to
unite the poet and the reader/listener in the exact impulse or experience that led the poet to
write the poem in the first place.

Diction
Diction is primarily the poets choice of words. Since poetry, of all literary forms, uses the
least number of words to accomplish its task, each word is important and must be chosen as
the exact word. Also, unnecessary words should be eliminated so they dont obscure the
essential language of the poem.

How does a poet choose the exact word? Three reasons make sense:

sound: how does the word sound? Does the sound contribute to the meaning, to the
overall sound scheme, or does it interrupt or interfere? Choose words for sound
based on the following
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alliteration: repetition of beginning sounds: Susan sent sally some sunflowers,

loons lurk late in autumn lakes under lavender skies

assonance: repetition of vowel sounds: cake, stake, break, fate, drank, ache,
placate, etc. Some words using assonance will rime exactly: others will simply
mirror the vowel sounds

consonance: repetition of consonant sounds: exact rimes use consonance:

foot, put, soot. But any words that repeat consonant sounds are using
consonance: add suit, unfit, and unlit to the preceding list. The key is that they
all end with the t sound. Consonance can occur in the middle of words also:
river, liver, cadaver, palaver, waver, save, rave, etc. The v sound repeats.

denotation: what is the exact meaning of the word? This is the definition you will find
in the dictionary.

connotation: what meanings does this word suggest beyond its exact meaning?
What is the emotive quality of this word? For example, the word cancer means a
disease characterized by the abnormal growth of cells. Emotionally, cancer
conjures up fear, even terror for some, worry, helplessness, etc. Words often have
such connotative connections and we need to be aware of them and use them.

Revision is the poets best tool for fixing those words that just dont work. Initially, write
the poem so you dont lose the impulse, the reason you are writing in the first place. Then,
after a time of estrangement from your poem, go back and look critically at each word,
asking yourself if it works? Is it needed? Will another work better?

Sound
Poems are meant to be heard; language that drips from the tongue it has been said. We
must, as poets, pay attention to the sound of language as well as to the meaning of
language: and sound, when used intentionally, should always enhance or reinforce the
meaning. Sound occurs in several ways:

Rime: words that sound either exactly alike or merely similar

exact rime:

cat, hat, flat, mat: masculine rime (one syllable rimes)

falling, calling, stalling: feminine rime (two or more syllables rime)

slant rime/approximate rime: the words sound close but are not exact rimes:

mirror, steer, dear or book, crack, stick (consonance is used most often for
slant rimes).

internal rime vs. end rime: end rime occurs only at the end of the line whereas
internal rime happens within the lines

Meter: a rhythm accomplished by using a certain number of beats or syllables per

line: the most common form of meter is Iambic meter which is a foot consisting of one
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable represented like this: ( U / ). A foot
is simply two syllables (or in some cases, three) that form a metrical pattern. Iambs
are common in everyday English. Iambic Pentameter means a five foot Iambic line,
or ten syllables.

The danger in writing poems using strict patterns of rime and meter is that a poet will force
words into lines for the sake of the meter or rime and will create a line that sounds wrong or
awkward. Sound should never be more important than the idea or meaning of the poem, but
should always work to extend the meaning of the poem.

Metaphor
A metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things whose purpose it is to help us see
something in a new or more meaningful way. Similes are also metaphors, but use the words
like or as in making the comparison. Life is like a river" is a simile.
Besides the simile, there are two basic types of metaphor:

direct metaphor: the comparison is made directly using the word is. Life is a river.

indirect metaphor: The river of life also compares life to a river but does so
indirectly.

Comparison is one of our basic patterns of reasoning. We perceive the world and compare
new things/experiences to what we already know to see how they are alike or different and
in this process, we make judgments and understand ideas.
There are other ways of comparing:

personification: giving something non-human, human characteristics

oxymoron: juxtaposing two things apparently contradictory that still reinforce one idea
jumbo shrimp, military intelligence

hyperbole: use exaggeration to extend reality: hyperbole gets us to look more closely
at what is actually true

understatement: this works in the opposite way from hyperbole

Theme

Why write poems? Some people cant help it. Writing poetry is as natural to them as
breathing and its not like a choice: they just do it. Still, there must be some reason above
the process itself for writing poems. Theme is the purpose of the poem. Its what the poet
needed to say. Themes express the unity of human experience, and through poems we see
that we are more alike as a human race than different. Themes tell us what is true about us,
and they arent always beautiful. Themes express the poets visionthe artists vision about
the truth of the world. Some common themes are love, hate, hunger, growing up, growing
old, dying, fears, cruelty, compassion, etc. A theme in a poem can be found in an epic tale or
a simple reflection: both light the way to understanding.

Saying Something New or Saying Something Old in a New Way

Poetry is one of the oldest art forms, and poets have pretty much covered all there is to say.
Still, you are, we all are, constantly reinventing ourselves and our world and we can say
something new, or at least something old in a new way. As beginning poets, we learn,
sometimes, through imitating the great poems we admire. This is a good and natural way to
learn. But we cannot imitate forever. At some point, we must find our own voices and we
must allow them to say the things that we know. What you know that I dont know is what
you can tell me in a poem, said Sharon Olds. After all, what else is there. I cannot write
about anything else. I can only tell you what I know.
This is a tricky thing, though. Sometimes we think we know things through our own
experiences that we really dont; what we do is try to appropriate vicarious experience for our
poems. Young poets may take the life lived on TV or in a movie and write about it as if it
were their own. Ideas for poems can come through the observed lives of othersbut what
matters is what we know about that experience and this knowledge comes only from our
own experiencefrom our own learning. This is what Olds meant: this is what we know.
Saying something old in a new way can mean using new forms, new ideas in language,
infusing the truly new world of science/technology/reality with the very, very old questions of
humanity. Its all about perception: how do you see the world? What can you say about it that
hasnt already been said?

source : http://www.mshogue.com/poetry/made_of.html

Illusion and Reality, Christopher Caudwell 1937

VII
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF POETRY

By poetry we mean modern poetry, because not only have we a special and intimate
understanding of the poetry of our age and time, but we look at the poetry of all ages
through the mist of our own. Modern poetry is poetry which is already separate from story
and has played a special part in the relation of the consciousness of the developing
bourgeois class to its surroundings.
What are the specific characteristics of this modern poetry not of good modern poetry, but
of any modern poetry? Mimesis, the characteristic of Greek poetry, is not a specific
characteristic of bourgeois poetry but is common to the bourgeois story and play.
The characteristics which would make a given piece of literature poetry for the sophisticated
modern are as follows:
(a) Poetry is rhythmic
The marked rhythm of poetry, superimposed upon the natural rhythm of any language,
seems to have taken its root from two sources-

(1) It makes easier declamation in common and therefore emphasises the collective
nature of poetry. It is the impress of the social mould in which poetry is generated. As
a result the nature of the rhythm expresses in a subtle and sensitive way the precise
balance between the instinctive or emotional content of the poem and the social
relations through which emotion realises itself collectively. Thus any change in mans
self-valuation of the relation of his instincts to society is reflected in his attitude to the
metre and rhythmical conventions into which he is born, and which he therefore as
poet changes in one direction or another. We have already studied in outline these
changes in attitude toward metrical technique during the movement of bourgeois
English poetry, and it is obvious that the final movement towards free verse reflects
the final anarchic bourgeois attempt to abandon all social relations in a blind
negation of them, because man has completely lost control of his social
relationships..
source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/caudwell/1937/illusionreality/ch07.htm

SEVEN QUALITIES OF A GOOD POEM

Posted by June W. on Thursday, April 8, 2010
Poetry has been around since the beginning of time. I doubt that poets in primitive societies
were overly concerned with whether their poems were considered academically accepted.
They just versified. According to Judson Jerome in Poets Handbook, Anyone can make
poetryand most people do, at least sometimes in their lives. They dont even have to be
able to read and write.

That said there are certain trends in poetry that we tend to follow. When most
Behind the Stacks participants were in elementary school, we learned poetry that rhymed
and had a sing-song meter. Yet during that same time, the modern poetry being written was
not like that. Modern poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1930 and reflects the
literature of the times. Many of the modernist poets have written in non-traditional forms, but
they use poetic diction and often with a certain rhythm and tone, but by implementing nonmetrical means. Today poets more frequently write modern poetry that is filled with imagery,
symbolism, and addresses issues rather than the romantic themes of the 19th century that
we studied in grammar school. As poetry catches up with post-modern thought, there
appears to be a synthesis of elements in both pre-modern and modern thought. Some very
interesting poetry is being written by amateur poets such as our Behind the Stacks poets. It
is no longer considered right or wrong to adhere to the cut and dried rules. Whether what
sets poetic juices flowing happens to be a string of phrases or formal rhyme and rhythm, it
matters not. What does matter is does the poem work? Kim Addonizio in Ordinary Genius,
lists seven qualities of a good poem:

Surprise
Music
Detail
Sufficient thought
Syntax
Part to whole
Mystery
source:
http://behindthestacks.yolasite.com/stuff-about-poetry/seven-qualitiesofagoodpoem