Imej manusia dalam kumpulan puisi salasilah Zurinah Hassan

The women writers still give their individual contributions and involvements in the world of creative literature development in our country. However, the study on the women’s authors’ works are less significant compared to men’s authors’ works. Apart from that, the study and the perusal on human image in poetry whether the modern poetry or the traditional poetry were very few. This study is try to approach one of the country famous women’s writers namely Zurinah Hassan and this survey result is hope able to give the contribution value to increase the knowledge for the Malay literature world interest. It is also for the Malay Literature subject as a medium in developing the society personality. To achieve this purpose, the three objectives for the research are specified as the study track namely (1) to identify the hidden meaning in Zurinah Hassan poetry’s through the human’s images potrays, (2) to identify the Teori Pengkaedahan Melayu in the Salasilah poetry anthology by Zurinah Hassan through the human images, and (3) to identify the existence and the value of human in the human image with nature and other creatures with God. The Teori Pengkaedahan Melayu by Hashim Awang that based on the creative creativity, the production of the good literature, the intimacy with the world symptom and the gentleness of the Malay people is made as the foundation to analyze the texts. This theory is based on the two major methods namely the Pengkaedahan Alamiah and Pengkaedahan Keagamaan. This study uses the content analysis method on the three part of Zurinah Hassan’s poetry in Salasilah poetry anthology namely part 1: Mukadimah Selat Melaka (39 poems), part 1: Bergurau Senda (17 poems) and part 3: Tun Sri Lanang Kedua (42 poems). Overall this poetry anthology contains 98 poems. The data is analyzed descriptively by applying the two data collection method namely the observation method and the library survey. The analysis result shows the human image in Zurinah’s poetry anthology contains the implied meaning on the reflection of the Malay race and the Teori Pengkaedahan Melayu is also identified existing in the human image. At the same time, this survey results also showed the existence and the value of human in the human image with nature and God.