Njanji Soenji (Republican Spelling: Njanji Sunji; Perfected Spelling: Nyanyi Sunyi; Indonesian for "Songs of Solitude" or "Songs of Silence") is a 1937 poetry collection by Amir Hamzah. Written some time after the poet was forced to marry the daughter of the Sultan of Langkat instead of his chosen love in Java, this collection consists of 24 titled poems and pieces of lyrical prose, none of which are dated. First published in the magazine Poedjangga Baroe, the collection has been republished as a stand-alone book several times.
Analysis of Nyanyi Sunyi has focused on the theme of God and His relationship to humanity, as well as of aspects of human existence: fate, dissatisfaction, and escape. Literary critics H.B. Jassin and Zuber Usman view the collection as an attempt to address Amir’s worldly problems. The collection has been noted as difficult to read owing to its usage of rarely used Malay and Javanese terms and basis in Islamic culture and Malay history. Despite this, Nyanyi Sunyi has been described as freer in its form than traditional Malay poetry, with what poet Chairil Anwar termed "compactly violent, sharp, and yet short"[1] sentences which brought a new style to the Indonesian language.
Njanji Soenji (Republican Spelling: Njanji Sunji; Perfected Spelling: NyanyiSunyi; Indonesian for "Songs of Solitude" or "Songs of Silence") is a 1937...
stopped writing. Most of his poems were published in two collections, NyanyiSunyi (1937) and Buah Rindu (1941), first in Poedjangga Baroe then as stand-alone...
arts and culture, which produced numerous major performances, such as NyanyiSunyi Revolusi and Cinta Tak Pernah Sederhana in 2019. Happy Salma has received...
this work were destroyed along with his library in 1965). He also wrote NyanyiSunyi Seorang Bisu (1995); A Mute's Soliloquy, an autobiography based on the...
Rindu was published in 1941, four years after Amir's debut collection NyanyiSunyi, general consensus is that its poems are less recent. The poems in Buah...
28-line poem by Amir Hamzah which was included in his 1937 collection NyanyiSunyi. Hamzah's best-praised work, readings have generally focused on religious...
Cummings Nones (1951) - W.H. Auden North of Boston (1914) - Robert Frost NyanyiSunyi (1937) - Amir Hamzah Odes (1960) - Frank O'Hara Ohio Violence (2009)...
tortured by the Indonesian government after the 1965 crackdown. In 2014, NyanyiSunyi Kembang-Kembang Genjer (The Silent Song of the Genjer Flowers), the story...
Xammar, Waino Miguel Hernández, Viento del pueblo; Spain Amir Hamzah, NyanyiSunyi, Dutch East Indies Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: W. H. Auden Consultant...
(Spread of the Clouds) by Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana, published in May 1936 NyanyiSunyi (Silent Song) by Amir Hamzah, published in October 1937 Buah Rindu (Fruit...
also features an untitled opening song and a closing song entitled "NyanyiSunyi Jagat Raya" ("The Universe's Silent Song"); other songs, some untitled...
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