An Aspect in the Poetic Experience of the Classical Poet Awat

A literary text is a personal thought or emotion of the writer that are illustrated in the world of imagination. S/he conveys this very personal intuition into the readers’ side (addressee) through a crafty language and a highly technical style. Thus, each and every literary text is composed of four elements: three of them are the internal structure of the poem, which are theme, emotion, and imagination, and the fourth one is style, which is the incarnation of the previously-mentioned elements. All of these elements are firmly interconnected to each other and could only be separated for research purposes. The aim of this study is to pinpoint the internal structure of Awat’s poetry and to show an aspect of his poetic experience.

Enganging Secularization with Expository Preaching

This research trying to see the phenomenon of secularization that is dominating the world. Some people argue that secularization is dangerous for the Christian faith while some say that it is just the opposite that secularization is necessary. What is developing now is that secularization becomes a movement in personal thought. Some experts distinguish between secularization and secularism. Secularism is a kind of ideology that remove everything supernatural defining ones life. Secularism refers to the fact that religion has lost influence on the societal, the institutional and the individual levels. Preaching is a main part of church to educate the congregation about God, what His will and also supernatural being. Expository preaching is the method of teaching scripture. There are many other ways to preach a sermon that are beneficial to a congregation. However, that these other forms of preaching should never replace expository preaching in the life of the church. Solid expository preaching brings scripture to life. It connects the meaning of the passage to the life of the hearer, helping them to apply what they’ve heard to their specific life situations. This is the way to maintain people from leaving God and supernatural being in modern human life.

IBRAMSYAH AMANDIT’S SUFISM POEMS: STUDY OF SUFI AESTHETICS

Tulisan ini membahas tasawuf dalam konteks seni, terutama melalui puisi Sastrawan Ibramsyah Amandit. Keindahan (al-jamâl), sebagai aspek ilahi adalah perhatian para sufi. Dengan kepekaan mereka terhadap al-Jamâl yang mewakili sifat-sifat Tuhan, Para Sufi mengungkapkan pengalaman terdalam mereka, kemudian menjadikannya sebagai bentuk karya seni yang mengilhami orang lain untuk mendekati Sang Pencipta (Allah). Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif yang mengulas beberapa puisi Ibramsyah Amandit dalam "Badai Gurun Darah". Pendekatan teoritis yang diterapkan dalam penelitian ini adalah hermeneutika estetika sufi. Puisi Ibramsyah mewakili pengalaman spritualitas dengan simbol mistik yang diambil dari tradisi sufisme atau dari pemikiran lokal dan pribadinya dengan kesadaran akan ketuhanan.This paper discuss Sufism in the context of art, especially through the poems of the Poet Ibramsyah Amandit. Beauty (al-jamâl) as an aspect of the divine of God is the attention of Sufis. With the sensitivity of Jamâl, which represent attribute of God, they then express their inner experiences, thus becoming forms of artwork that inspires others to get closer to the Creator (Allah). This literary research is descriptive qualitative that review some poems of Ibramsyah Amandit in Badai Gurun dalam Darah. The theoretical approach that used is the study of Sufi Aesthetics that is hermeneutics. Ibramsyah’s poems represent sprituality experience with mystical symbols that taken from the sufism tradition or from local and personal thought with awareness of divinity.

The History of Childhood Since the “Invention of Childhood”: Some Issues in the Eighties

One approach to the history of childhood examines change in private dispositions toward the young. Another approach concentrates on the proliferation of public institutions for managing child life. The history of sentiments has led to a futile debate over the relative extent of dispositional change or continuity in feeling for children without considering the ways in which notionally primordial or elemental dispositions were constructed or contaminated by the normative, politicized meanings of childhood. The upshot is that the symbolic politics of childhood arising from intergroup moral conflict, returns to haunt current interpretations in the guise of timeless psychological or bio-social truths. Study of the official processing of children errs in the opposite direction, losing sight of the personal thought and action of children and their parents, as if their historical experiences were fundamentally comprised of policy and administration. Actual children vanish and an implausibly intrusive account is offered of policy itself. Family history, especially accounts of agrarian and working class family strategies, helps put each history of childhood in a more realistic context and may bridge the two.

A Mathematician's Progress

Students often note that mathematics in its full dress suit of postulates, definitions, theorems, and formal proofs is more of a fossil than a living organism. The reader who scans such material has no idea of the hours and days of cogitation spent on even minor points, the misdirections that led to blind alleys, the sudden inspirations, and all the various thrills and disappointments that make mathematics a truly human experience. Furthermore, with no particular idea of just how the result was achieved, the student loses a great deal of useful information regarding methods of procedure—and it is precisely such information that would prove most valuable to him and others who are trying to penetrate the domains of mathematics by personal thought.