Sapardi Djoko Damono, one of Indonesia's most productive and popular poets first began writing poetry as a high school student in the mid- 1950s. Before Dawn includes poems written by the author over a forty year time span, from 1961 to 2001. Arranged as they are in chronological order, the poems in Before Dawn together form a kind of poetic autobiography. In "One Night," written in 1964, the a…
Kekalahan Yudhistira dalam berjudi membuat seluruh negeri Amarta menderita. Namun, yang lebih menderita dari kekalahan itu adalah sang istri, Drupadi. Drupadi harus kehilangan kehormatannya. Kekalahan Yudhistira memaksa kelima Pandawa menjalani hukuman, dibuang dari istana selama 12 tahun dan harus menjalani penyamaran selama setahun. Kesetiaan membuat Drupadi mengikuti Pandawa, terlunta-lunta …
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