Henrikus Joko Yulianto
Both poetry and electronic media, such as the telegraph and cinema, use signs and codes as language. Not only literary devices, images in ecopoetry are also visual expressions of ecomedia. In ecological terms, this chapter explores the correlation between images as concepts or signifiers and their references to objects or the signified. Indonesian poet Afrizal Malna’s collection Anxiety Myths (2013) interweaves telegraphic language with cinematic montage to express various images of urban melancholy. The epigrammatic, episodic images of the poems, juxtaposed through techniques of cinematic montage and jump cuts, produce an immediacy of events and directness of expression. In the poems, this interconnected typography, in conjunction with recurring images of natural landscapes and anthropogenic cultural materials, reveals an ecological vision that evokes one’s cognizance of urban ecosystems and the importance of consuming material goods responsibly. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
State University of Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia
