Free Form Poem: Rain Song

Rain Song is a concrete poem. It is a form of poem in which the visual element is part of the poem’s art, the typographical arrangement of letters and words on the page (or as here) is as much a part of the poem’s essence as the more traditional poetic techniques. This poem is a kind of free-form poem which is not rigid on the rhyme scheme, rhythm, and stanza. In this poem, Nott, the writer, has arranged letters and word in the form of an umbrella for representing the content. The discussion of the poem includes its structure as well as its content. In terms of the structure the poem will be analyzed on how the poetic devices and poetic diction employed, whereas through the analysis of the content the intended meaning or message Nott wants to deliver will be revealed.

Free Form Poem: A Dream within a Dream

Norhenriady, an English teacher from Amuntai, South Kalimantan, Indonesia, analyzes a poem created by Edgar Allan Poe. He likes the poem because it has deep meaning and touchable his heart and whomever readers. Furthermore, he states that sometimes we feel or even experience the situation just like the poem. Sometimes we ever lost someone or something we love in our life. The poem inspires everyone about how precious the life is. Additionally, it is suitable for students of Junior High School until university.

Free Form Poem: Love is Enough

Abdul Wakhid analyzes a free form poem entitled Love is Enough. He is one of the English teachers form Indramayu, West Java, Indonesia. He thinks that the poem is suitable for the students of junior high school because by presenting the poem the teacher could give a lot of linguistics figures. The teacher should lead and guide the students to get the meaning of difficult word or phrase. The analysis is presented as follows.

Free Form Poem: Fire and Ice

Hanna Andyani, an English teacher from Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia, analyzes a poem entitled Fire and Ice composed by Robert Frost. She says that the poem is interesting and simple as well as meaningful so that it is suitable for students of Junior High School.

Free Form Poem: Dreams (1)

Laili Makhfudhoh, an English teacher from Malang, East Java, Indonesia, analyzes as poem entitled Dreams composed by Langston Hughes. She comments that the poem is very suitable for MTs/SMP students since it has simple sentences and a great message for them in their life.

Free Form Poem: Daffodils

Bambang Sutaryo, an Eglish teacher from Bengkalis, Riau, analyzes a free form poem entitled Daffodils. He states that This poem can be a good model in teaching our students (Junior High School students) with some simplification. His analysis is presented below.

Free Form Poem: The Mouse's Tale

Na’imatul Muflikhah, an English teacher from Malang Regency, analyzes a free form poem entitled The Mouse’s Tale. She comments that “The Mouse’s Tale” is a good example in teaching our students about concrete poetry, because it has an interesting shape and the language used in the poem is simple. The use of denotation words can help the students understand the message easily. Moreover, some of the words can help students to enrich their vocabulary mastery by find out their synonym, for example the word “Cur” same as “dog”, “condemn” same as “punish” or “blame”. The modern conception of concrete poetry is a poem in the form of a picture, and then Lewis Carroll helped to shape this idea with his poem.

Free Form Poem: Dreams (2)

M. Arizal Safari, an English teacher from Kediri, East Java, Indonesia, comments on a poem composed by Langston Hughes, Dreams. He mentions that the poem is appropriate for Junior High level because it gives the description of having dream and the importance of it. His analysis is showed in the following.

Free-Form Poem

Free-form poem is one of the example of poem which has no pattern. It has no rhyme and the number of the line is free.The following is the example of analysis of a free-form poem: Happiness.