Ethical Multicultural Values in Poetry: A Hermeneutics Examination

Abstract

Value is something good and useful in human life. Therefore, every human being must need value. Value is reflected in the character of human work. People have many kind of work, one of them is to become artist. Literary works consist of poetry, novels, short stories, and drama. This paper examines literary works, especially poetry. Poetry is a representation of a creator’s actions and thoughts after fighting with the world, both the external and internal worlds. Poetry carries philosophical, aesthetic, religious and ethical values. This paper specifically examines ethical values such as sadness, loyalty and empathy nuances. The Ricoeur hermeneutic method is used to reveal the proposed values. The data source is an Indonesian poetry created by Husni Djamaluddin with a title of Indonesia, Masihkah Engkau Tanah Airku (Indonesia, Are You Still My Motherland). The data consists of words, lines and feeds from poems related to the above study.