WOMEN’S PROTESTS IN RENDRA’S POEMS

Abstract

Women's suffering appears in many literary works, including Indonesian literature. Gender injustice is not only voiced by female authors, but also by male writers. In Indonesian literary works, both short stories, poetry, and novels, women are always interesting objects from time to time. Among the many poems of Rendra, many talks about women. Rendra does not only talk about women who are marginalized in their normal environment, but in several of his poems, Rendra talks about women's protests. They expressed dissatisfaction with the behavior of society and the state that made women accept unfair treatment. The approach to this research was descriptive qualitative. There is a poetry collection of books that are the object of this research, namely Blues untuk Bonnie (Blues for Bonnie). The theory used to analyze Rendra's poetry is based on Simone de Beauvoir's view of women. This study produces a description of the influence of the third wave of women's movements that occurred in the United States on Rendra's poetry. This is very reasonable because some of Rendra's poetry on women was written when he was living in the United States, where at that time there was a wave of women's movements demanding equality in almost all fields with men.