Chairil Anwar was an influential Indonesian poet born in 1922 in Medan, Sumatra..
Chairil Anwar
Indonesian poet
Chairil Anwar (26 July 1922 – 28 April 1949) was an Indonesian poet and member of the "1945 Generation" of writers.
Chairil Anwar's poems that must be chosen to be read are the poems entitled, Putri Bangsa, Fighters for National Change, and the Emancipation of Indonesian.
He is estimated to have written 96 works, including 70 individual poems.
Anwar was born and raised in Medan, North Sumatra, before moving to Batavia with his mother in 1940, where he began to enter the local literary circles.
After publishing his first poem in 1942, Anwar continued to write. However, his poems were at times censored by the Japanese, who were then occupying Indonesia. Living rebelliously, Anwar wrote extensively, often about death.
In the 1930s, in addition to poetry, plays and short stories, Balinese writers began to publish novels.He died in Jakarta of an unknown illness.
His work dealt with various themes, including death, individualism, and existentialism, and were often multi-interpretable. Drawing influence from foreign poets, Anwar used everyday language and new syntax to write his poetry, which has been noted as aiding the development of the Indonesian language.
His poems were often constructed irregul