Sedition Sedition
Cecil Rajendra
Cecil Rajendra
How the poet 1. According to
introduces his subject: 2. the shorter
Outline
SACAI NOV 2021 3. Oxford Dictionary –
To see where this poet is coming 4. Sedition
He provides the 5. is: agitation
from it may be helpful to
dictionary definition of
understand his background. Let
sedition according to 6. against authority;
us delve a little into the politics
the shorter Oxford 7. conduct, speech
of Malaysia. The government is
Dictionary. 8. (or literature)
highly authoritarian and, while
9. tending to rebellion;
the country prides itself on its
10. a breach of public order.
constitution which protects civil Line 12: SACAI NOV 2021
liberties, there are many 11. According to
oppressive laws in place The meaning of the 12. Received history –
including the law of sedition phrase: It is history 13. poetry
which are open to abuse by which is widely 14. is a fist
those in power. Although there accepted to be 15. in the face
has been much opposition to it authoritative and true
by the people, successive 16. of authority;
governments have retained it. 17. pugnacious
Purpose of enjambment: 18. inflammatory;
The problem is that the law of
the country includes protections
SACAI NOV 2021 19. a tumult
20. of words/emotions;
guaranteeing certain privileges The entire stanza is one
for the indigenous Malay sentence. The
21. an insurrection
population. The sedition law is enjambment has broken it 22. in language;
vague enough to be used to up for the reader as a 23. a rage
silence criticism of this series of separate 24. against night
arrangement. But it is also fragments strikingly set 25. neatness & order;
commonly employed to quell apart as powerful
opposition in general. examples of how poetry 26. a fracture
can be seen as seditious. 27. into the establishment;
28. forever leaning
29. towards rebellion
The poet successfully demonstrates that poetry is ‘forever leaning 30. revolution et cetera –
towards rebellion SACAI NOV 2021
31. Ergo, every poem
By saying that it is a ‘fist in the face of authority’ the poet shows us how 32. is a wanton
poetry can challenge the status quo. By describing it as ‘inflammatory’ 33. act of sedition!
he points out the way that poetry can rouse up strong reactions in
people. When he claims that the ‘words/emotions’ can be an
‘insurrection in language’ he demonstrates how the strong language in
poems can make people rebel. The idea that ‘rage … against neatness
and order’ can bring about a ‘fracture into the establishment’ shows
how poetry can provoke great anger with its emotive power such that
the readers will question their established beliefs
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