APPRECIATING AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY’S POEMS THROUGH BINARY OPPOSITION

From all of literature genre, mostly poem is the most difficult literary work to appreciate. It is caused by the ambiguity, imagery, methapor, and symbolic words inside it. Even, in contemporary poems, the problems will be raised due to the history of their creative process and cultural background. Like, in Adrienne Rich‘s poems, it is almost impossible for the reader to appreciate and understand her poems without understanding her cultural and historical background. Thus, this paper will observe how to appreciate American contemporary poems, such as Rich‘s poems through the easiest way by using binary opposition and link it with Rich‘s historical and cultural background. It is very important to carry out the writer‘s historical and cultural background, because it will be determined the whole content of the poems. Contemporary poems usually has weird form that make it differ from the traditional poems. Sometimes, the form is prosaic, the combination between poetry and prose, and sometimes it likes long dialogs. Therefore, the method by using the binnary opposition and link it with writer‘s background is one of the effective way to appreciate American contemporary‘s poems. Keywords: American contemporary poems, binary opposition, writer‘s background