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THE PROJECT OF IMMORTALITY IN POETRY Masulah .
Didaktis: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Ilmu Pengetahuan Vol 7, No 3 (2007)
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya

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ABSTRACTThe perennial problem for human beings is loss and decay. Life is fragile and transient and Death is as close as life. However, when man dies, as everyone must admit they eventually do, do they really extinct, that is,do they stay dead forever? Or as Job phrases it, “If a man dies, shall he live again?” There can be no doubt that the threat of mortality and the possibility of immortality have been always the foremost incentives to philosophical inquiry. It was Socrates who ascribes philosophyas basically a “meditation on death”, a meditation on whether man is mortal or immortal. This paper will examine how poetry mediates about the problem of death (mortality) and the prospect of immortality as explored by Allan Tate in Ode to the Confederate Dead and John Keats in Ode to Nightingale and To Autumn. This paper will be starting with general overview of immortality in poetics. The Introductory section will address such questions as: How do human beings conceive theimmortality of their existence through out the history? How do lyrics deal with the issue of immortality? What image does lyric try to preserve? How do some lyrics differ in their conceptions toward loss, decay, and death?Allan Grossman’s Summa Lyrica is used as the starting point of the discussion. This section will review Grossman’s guidelines on the dynamics of the poets and their creation: How a poet monumentalizes thepersona and the voice through his creation and how his whole creation in turn creates a legendary figure of himself as a human being and as a poet, remembered and celebrated by the world. Further discussion will be focusing on Keats’ To Autumn, and Ode to Nightingale, and Tate’s Ode to the Confederate Dead. The discussion on these odes will address the issue of the media through which Death can be the agent of immortalityrather than the menacing power of mortality. 
CARNAL SINNERS IN THE SECOND CIRCLE OF HELL IN CANTO V OF DANTE’S INFERNO Masulah .
Didaktis: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Ilmu Pengetahuan Vol 9, No 2 (2009)
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya

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AbstractThis paper tries to scrutinize Canto V of Inferno, one of the trilogies of Dante’s Devine Comedy. The first section of the paper overviews the general features of Inferno and the general structure of Hell told inInferno. After the general description, the paper then focuses on discussing Canto V which narrates about the carnal sinners in the second circle of Hell. The Carnal sinners are those sinners who abandon themselves to the temptation of lust. It is told in Canto V, that in thesecond circle of Hell, Dante finds the damned spirits of Dido of Cartidge, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra of Egypt and Achilles of Greek. However, in discussing the carnal sinners, it is hardly possible not to discuss Francesca, one of the inmates of the second circle of Hell madeimportant by Dante by telling her adulterous love story elaborately in Canto V. Thus, in the next section, the paper progresses to discussing the predicaments of Francesca’s rhetoric about her love which lead to herdamnation in Hell. It is revealed here that Francesca, cast into hell because of her adulterous love to her brother-in-law Paolo, questions her damnation in Hell. She bases her objection on the idea that her yieldinginto lust is not her fault. It is, she apparently argues, the work of love itself, as an active agent and the romance book she reads, as a stimulating force dragging her into sinful love. This paper tries to reveals that Francesca’s rhetorical justification faults and fails becauseshe annihilates the so-called God’s given free will man innately possesses.
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