<![CDATA[Poets often use poetry to reflect and criticize various issues that develop in society. This criticism is generally conveyed through metaphors and symbolic language so that its meaning is not directly visible on the surface of the text. This shows the need for an interpretive approach that is able to reveal the meaning of social criticism in depth, one of which is through Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics. This study aims to describe the meaning of social criticism in the poetry anthology Negeri Daging by KH. A. Musthofa Bisri and interpret the meaning of social criticism through Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics approach. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach with an interpretative paradigm. The research data source is the text of poetry in the Negeri Daging anthology, while the research data are in the form of words, lines, stanzas, and expressions that contain social criticism. Data collection was carried out through the listening and noting method with steps of repeated reading, recording, coding, and classifying data based on the research focus. The research results according to the theory (Ricoeur, 1976) found seven dimensions of the meaning of fundamental social criticism, namely worship used as an image, as well as the inconsistency between religious identity and social behavior, acts of oppression, social conflict between groups, abuse of freedom without moral responsibility, hypocrisy and the image of the power elite and the low level of political awareness of the community in determining political choices critically and responsibly.]]>
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