Gerimis bukan berarti hujan, bunga belum tentu berarti kembang. Konon, puisi adalah hasil permainan gaya bahasa seorang penyair yang tidak bisa diartikan secara harfiah. Kerap kali penyair bilang begini, tapi maksudnya begitu. Lalu, bagaimana caranya bisa menikmati puisi dan menangkap pesan atau makna yang ingin disampaikan oleh penyair? Dalam usaha memahami karya sastra, tentu berbagai pertany…
Never before had English readers met a heroine like Jane-small, plain, and even bold and unladylike. Never before had they read such a searching portrayal of pas. sion. Nor had they entered so completely into the character of the narrator, seeing everyone and everything through her eyes and her emotions. The first person narrative, or auto- biographical technique, had certainly been used bef…
Captain Ahab has pursued the legendary white whale Moby Dick half-way around the world to the South Seas. Now, lame and half-mad, he prepares himself for a battle to the death ... Moby Dick is one of the world's greatest sea stories. It combines a rich and detailed evocation of life on a whaler with the tension of the chase and the fascination of a dangerous and obsessive hatred.