LAUTAN SEBAGAI RUMAH: MAKNA SEMIOTIK PUISI SUFI SEASHELL VOICE KARYA TIEL AISHA ANSARI

Abstract

This study of Tiel Aisha Ansari’s Sufi poem entitled Seashell Voice is aimed at knowing the
meaning of “ocean” / ”sea” expressed. It is also to know the uniqueness of using the term in a
Sufi poem. The writer of this essay uses Riffaterre semiotic theory to analyse the meaning of the
poem. This is due to the totality of this theory in interpreting a poem starts at analyzing surface
meaning to core meaning. The result of analysis on the poem Seashell Voice shows that this poem
uses the main signifier “sea” / ”ocean” and “seashell”. The “sea” actually becomes the symbol
for home that is longed so much by the “seashell”. Then the second meaning has been got is that
seashell symbolizes man / human himself. The man is always eager to be with his God that has
been symbolized as sea. The conclusion can be got from the study of Seashell Voice poem is that
sea symbolizes God Himself as been written in many Sufi poems. Man that is symbolized with
seashell felt far from his God. That’s why he longs very much to go back to his original home,
namely God.
Keywords : sea, Sufi poem, symbol, God