A. Introduction
According to John Keats, poetry is an attempt to read the beautiful or sublime without the burden of imagining the logical or narrative thought process. He does not imply that poetry is illogical or lacks narration. Ideas are arranged through beautiful words (Lodge, 1998:2). It's mean that literature is an expression of the soul. In the literature will always appear the psychological perspective of poets’ side. According to Endraswara (2013), the important thing of psychological is to consider pivotal matters, whether a writer can articulate his idea critically as an inner expression, or just emotionally.
Emotional literature is certainly not born through a mature psychological process. Emotional literature tends to be spontaneous about mental upheaval. The task of literary psychology criticism is to capture literature as the reflection of the soul. The human soul moves continuously, following the rhythm of the times. Literature is a reflection of the experience of the soul, which actually underlies the presence of many psychological criticisms. The separation of literary value as a mirror of the soul is the most discussed in literary criticism.
Before analyzing the Sufism poetry, here will explain about the definition of Sufism. Sufism or tasawuf (التصوف ) which often defined as “Islamic mysticism”, “the inward dimension of Islam” or “the phenomenon of mysticism within Islam” is a mystical trend in Islam. Sufism has a characteristic such as values, ritual practices, doctrines, and intuitions. The units of them began early in Islamic history and which represents the main manifestation and the most important and central crystallization of mystical practice in Islam.
Based on the explanation above, the writer will analyze the Sufism poetry by Candra Malik entitled “Kau Sanggup Mengerti” using psychology approach. Tasawuf and psychology is affect each other.
B. Discussion
Candra Malik is one of the figures of humanism. It has been seen from his biography, Candra Malik was born in Islamic tradition which consists of Sufism rituals. He also became a journalist in Java Pos network newspaper in Jakarta. His background as a journalist and tasawuf science can be supporting his literature. He prefers to make literary works of Sufi nuances. The Candra Malik’s poem which entitled “Kau Sanggup Mengerti” is a poem that describes a love to his God and the desire to meet. His love for God will make him feel close and always want to do anything that the God commanded to be a goodness. The poet wants to say about perfect love from unperfect human.
Bukan tubuh ternyata yang kau lihat,
melainkan seutuh cinta yang hakikat.
Kurasakan Seluruh jiwa ragamu mendekat.
Kau hadirkan sepenuh rasa yang dahsyat
"Mu" here refers to God. The poet says that "Mu" (God) has come close to the essence of love that not only looks but also to be enthralling. According to Sigmund Freud, the soul’s life has three levels of consciousness (conscious, preconscious, and unconscious). Nature conscious is what you realize at a certain moment, direct sensing, memory, perception, thoughts, fantasies, feeling you have. Closed related to this conscious mind is what Freud called nature conscious. That is what we are
Call it now with "memories already available" (Available memory), is an anything which can easily be called to the conscious,
memories that you do not even remember thinking, but can
easily called again. The biggest part is unconscious nature
(unconscious mind ). This section covers everything Which we do not realize but it encourages our words, feelings, and actions. Even though we are aware of our real behavior, we are often unaware of the process
Mentally that is behind the behavior.
In short, “Cinta yang hakikat” its mean that the poet wants to say about his feeling, his the experience about the essence of love in the heart to the God.
Terimakasih, sekujur semesta kamajaya.
kaulah kekasih yang jujur menerima.
Welas asih bertutur mengolah makna,
segala sedih kauhibur dan kutertawa.
Tak selalu perlu mata untuk melihat.
Tak selalu perlu telinga untuk mendengar.
Tak selalu perlu tangan untuk memegang.
Tak selalu perlu kaki untuk melangkah.
Bagiku kau t'lah menjelma penglihatan.
Bagiku kau t'lah menjelma pendengaran.
Bagiku kau t'lah menjelma genggaman.
Bagiku kau t'lah menjelma perjalanan.
Candra Malik says that this poem is made to commemorate diseases of disability. This poem illustrates that there is not need for a perfect body to serve the most perfect, the essence of love is in the heart, so their God in their heart too. This is a piece of the Candra Malik’s poem.
Mata hatiku, matahari bagi segala penjuru,
kau jauh tak berjarak, dekat tak tersentuh.
Katahatiku, matahari bagi jiwa dan ragaku,
hadir sebagai takdir, gaib pun kau tak raib.
Kau hidup di sini, di dalam sanubari,
sanggup mengerti, menenteramkan hati.
Ketika semua menjauh, kau mendekat.
Bagiku kau peneduh, kaulah penyelamat.
Kaulah cinta yang dewasa,
menerimaku selayaknya manusia.
Ya, kaulah semesta kamajaya,
menerimaku laksana dewangga.
“Kamajaya” its mean God of love. In this part he wants to tell that God is the real love, God is love itself. The psychology of the poet when he writes this poem is longing to his God. He explains about the human who has nothing (example: a defect of the body) still has a love, a heart, a feeling to be able near with God. According to Freud the human-driven more by unconscious aspects. The division is known as the structure of human personality and still consists of three elements, namely id, ego, and superego (conscious, preconscious, and unconscious).
Candra Malik as a Sufi can be said that he understands the meaning of his poetry which inspires his life is intended for God. It's mean that tasawuf can be proofed through the psychology approach. So, tasawuf is related to the science of psychology that discuss the feeling, a soul, aesthetic, attitude, and the theory of Freud about consciousness.
C. Conclusion
1. The conclusion is actually human has a soul to feel the intuition. The readers can open their mind to the purpose of the poet through psychological approach. We will know about the feeling of the poet. Like a theory of Freud, a human has a three consciousness (conscious, preconscious, and unconscious).
2. The poet in this poetry can explain his feeling to be near with the God. In this poem is more explain about intuition.
3. Furthermore, the tasawuf (Sufism) has a relation with the psychology science because both of them discuss the feeling, a soul, aesthetic, attitude, and another thing that related with the theory of Freud about consciousness.
D. References
Endraswara, Suwardi. 2013. Teori Kritik Sastra. Yogyakarta: Buku Seru.
Lodge, David (Ed.) 1988. Modern Criticism and Theory. London and New York: Longman.
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