Arthalamkara: One of the Kawya Aesthetic Styles of Geguritan Sucita

I WAYAN , SUKA YASA (2012) Arthalamkara: One of the Kawya Aesthetic Styles of Geguritan Sucita. Mudra (JURNAL SENI BUDAYA), 27 (3). p. 1. ISSN 0854-3461

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Abstract

Geguritan Sucita, a literary work composed by Ida Ketut Jlantik (1905-1961), is a transformed work from Old-Javanese religious text, which has been very popularly spread to the community of anak nyastra ‘the devotees of Balinese traditional letters’. The words chosen are composed in accordance with the alamkara style and on the basis of arrangement called padalingsa. Based on the analysis of alamkara ‘stylistic’, it can be found out that Geguritan Sucita has a complete and beautiful arthalamkara ‘figure of speech’ in which there are sixteen different kinds. Among those 16 kinds of figure of speech, the rupaka ‘comparison, metaphor’ is the dominant style to be utilized. It conforms to the goal of Jlantik in composing Geguritan Sucita, that is, to transform the religious values of Hinduism. The religious values, particularly its aspects of divinity, are transcendent. Because of the fact that it is very difficult to elucidate, therefore, Jlantik applies the rupaka style much more than the others, because of being very effective to turn the religious concepts that is abstract to become concrete. Keywords: Geguritan Sucita, alamkara, and nyastra.

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