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A Study on Islamic Moderation Values Contained in Emily Dickinson’s Poems
Keywords: Islamic Moderation Values, Poems, Emily Dickinson
Poetry is a sound that we enjoy hearing. By poetry people tell stories or
message like love, sadness, happiness, social event, human life, religious values
and others. By poetry people tell religious values. Religious values are ethical
principle founded in religious traditions, text and beliefs. Some poems consist of
moderate attitude as Islam taught. It is called Islamic moderation.
Islamic moderation values are important thing to be applied in society,
especially in an area or district, or organization that the people have more than one
belief. Islamic moderation consist of four values, those are tolerance (tasamuh),
justice (i’tidal), balance (tawazzun), and equality (musawah/egalitarian). Some
kinds of those values appear in literature, such as on the poem of Emily
Dickinson.
This research is library research using qualitative research method with the
specific analytic approach which is called content analysis. The researcher took
the poems of Emily Dickinson, the famous poet in 18th century, to be analyzed.
The research focuses on (1) What Islamic Moderation values found on Emily
Dickinson’s poems?, and (2) How does Emily Dickinson express Islamic
Moderation values on Emily Dickinson’s poems?.
From the four poems analyzed, the researcher found that there are two
Islamic moderation values on Emily Dickinson poems. Those values are tolerance
(tasamuh), which include to spirituality and religiosity dimension and doctrinal
dimension, and balance (tawazun) value. Emily Dickinson uses some elements of
poetry to express Islamic Moderation values, such as figurative language,
symbolism, and imagery.
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