But oh my heart that will not give itself
Break, you bastard, ripped by your loneliness!
• "Sia-Sia" ["In Vain"] (February 1943), p. 11
Break, you bastard, ripped by your loneliness!
• "Sia-Sia" ["In Vain"] (February 1943), p. 11
“
Ah! hatiku jang tak mau memberi
Mampus kau dikojak-kojak sepi.
— Chairil Anwar
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Ah! hatiku jang tak mau memberi
Mampus kau dikojak-kojak sepi." in the context of "But oh my heart that will not give itself
Break, you bastard, ripped by your loneliness!
• "Sia-Sia" ["In Vain"] (February 1943), p. 11" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Chairil Anwar" (Quotations, The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar (trans. Burton Raffel): Unless otherwise noted, page numbers refer to The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, ed. and trans. Burton Raffel (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1970).)
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About Chairil Anwar
Chairil Anwar (26 July 1922 – 28 April 1949) was an Indonesian poet.
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