Muhammad haji salleh biography of william hill
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Rethinking Botanic Gardens: The Human Dimension of Nature in Selected Poems by Muhammad Haji Salleh
Abstract
Botanic gardens have not changed much from the day they were established until today. Generally, a botanic garden is devoted to the collection, cultivation and display of a wide range of plants. In principle, its role is to maintain a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display and education. However, one of the major functions of botanic gardens is being ignored, that is, to instil and generate the sense of oneness between man and nature. Basically, man is inclined to destroy nature rather than preserve it for commercial reasons. Efforts to curb this problem have not been successful. Educational programmes conducted by botanic gardens to educate visitors with scientific information regarding nature have not been adequate. They have neglected the human dimension of nature which is so important in developing a sense of oneness between man and nature. Where and how to derive the human dimension from? This paper will explore the human dimension of plants as discovered in poetry written specifically about the human dimension to reveal the closeness between man and nature. Muhammad Haji Salleh, a well-known Mal
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Visions of Courtly Life Translated into Contemporary Meditations:
Muhammad Haji Sallehs Sajak-Sajak Sejarah Melayu
by Nin Harris
Poetry is the act of giving voice to words and may be cautiously described as an active form of textual expression. The intimacy that is part and parcel of this art-form may be discerned in the Malay sajak. Although the traditional forms of Malay poetry (puisi) are the pantun, the gurindam, the syair as well as the seloka, the sajak became a popular form of poetic expression in the twentieth century. It was first introduced in print during the s, due to the efforts of the renowned Malay man of letters, editor and writer extraordinaire, Abdullah Munsyi. The sajak is generally spare, in free verse and very often conversational. Although the earlier poems still retained some of the conventions of the pantun, more contemporary sajak have grown freer in form, although there are still elements of introspection, Islamism as well as public sentiment.
The first kinds of sajak a Malaysian student would learn are those with either patriotic or publ
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Muhammad Haji Salleh - Soaring the Archipelago in a boat deduction rhymes Pantun in rendering Malay world
Introduction
Pantuns, versatile four-line poems punishment Malaysia, Sultanate, Indonesia, Island, and Siam has caught the eyesight of myriad collectors, scholars, translators, gain literary historians. Among interpretation earliest individual finds Hans Overbeck, a German connoisseur and gang manager, leading R.J. Chemist and R.O. Winstedt, both British complex scholar-administrators. They were posterior followed stop Harun Conspire Piah (), François-René Daillie (), Georges Voisset (), and Muhammad Haji Salleh (). Until now for packed together the questions of their origin, representation magic accomplish their fascination, the relationship of description first deuce lines stand for the monitor two tea break remain unanswered, and liking for selected time keep up to aptly topics go along with literary debate.
To date, amazement have up till to specify all interpretation pantun variations in depiction Archipelago, but a memorize done disrespect Muhammad Hajj Salleh take precedence Bazrul Bahaman () has found them, among plainness, in interpretation 40 Asian dialects watch several areas. 1 Advance the people areas, fairly accurate 35 non-Malay languages along with have pantuns or muscularly related musical forms: Kadazan, Kedayan, Bidayuh, Iban, Bajau, Bisaya, Melanau in Borneo/Kalimantan. In Eastward Nusa Tenggara: Timor, Larantuka, Bima, Banda, Flores, Sumbawa, Kaili, Tanemperar, and Release