Chairil Anwar

Penerimaan/Willingness

Kalau kau mau kuterima kau kembali Dengan sepenuh hati Aku masih tetap sendiri Kutahu kau bukan yang dulu lagi Bak kembang sari sudah terbagi Jangan tunduk! Tentang aku dengan berani Kalau kau mau kuterima kembali Untukku sendiri tapi Sedang dengan cermin aku enggan berbagi. Maret 1943 Chairil Anwar

If you like I'll take you back With all my heart. I'm still alone. I know you're not what you were, Like a flower pulled into parts. Don't crawl! Stare at me bravely. If you like I'll take you back For myself, but I won't share even with a mirror. March 1943

Chairil Anwar (26 July 1922 – 28 April 1949) was an Indonesian poet and member of the "1945 generation" of writers. He is estimated to have written 96 works, including 70 individual poems.

Anwar was born and raised in Medan, North Sumatra, before moving to Batavia with his mother in 1940, where he began to enter the local literary circles. After publishing his first poem in 1942, Anwar continued to write. However, his poems were at times censored by the Japanese, then occupying Indonesia. Living rebelliously, Anwar wrote extensively, often about death. He died in Jakarta of an unknown illness.

His work dealt with various themes, including death, individualism, and existentialism, and were often multi-interpretable. Drawing influence from foreign poets, Anwar used everyday language and new syntax to write his poetry, which has been noted as aiding the development of the Indonesian language. His poems were often constructed irregularly, but with individual patterns.