4 Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Kehidupan

Ilustrasi Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Kehidupan. Foto: Unplash/Thought Catalog

Kali ini Inspirasi Kata akan membagikan beberapa puisi spesial, yaitu puisi bahasa Inggris tentang kehidupan yang sangat menarik. Nah, sebelum lebih lanjut, apa yang kamu tahu tentang puisi?

Menurut buku Puisi Baru, Rina Ari Rohmah, (2020:4), puisi adalah sebuah bentuk karya sastra yang berisi gagasan emosional dari hati penyair yang di dalamnya terdapat makna, bait, irama, rima, dan matra.

4 Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Kehidupan

Ilustrasi Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Kehidupan. Foto: Unplash/Debby Hudson.

Yuk, intip kumpulan puisi bahasa Inggris tentang kehidupan dalam artikel berikut, yang dikutip dari situs aconsciousrethink.com dan inspirationfeed.com.

1. A Psalm of Life

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell me not, in mournful numbers

Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers

And things are not what they seem

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal

Dust thou art, to dust returnest

Was not spoken of the soul

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow

Is our destined end or way

But to act, that each to-morrow

Find us farther than to-day

Art is long, and time is fleeting

And our hearts, though stout and brave

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

Funeral marches to the grave

In the world’s broad field of battle

In the bivouac of life

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no future, howe’er pleasant!

Let the dead past bury its dead!

Act,—act in the living present!

Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time

Footprints, that perhaps another

Sailing o’er life’s solemn main

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother

Seeing, shall take heart again

Let us, then, be up and doing

With a heart for any fate

Still achieving, still pursuing

Learn to labor and to wait

2. If

by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you

But make allowance for their doubting too

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue

Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you

If all men count with you, but none too much

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run

Yours is the earth and everything that’s in it

And—which is more—you’ll be a man, my son!

3. Life

by Sarojini Naidu

Children, ye have not lived, to you it seems

Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams

Or carnival of careless joys that leap

About your hearts like billows on the deep

In flames of amber and of amethyst

Children, ye have not lived, ye but exist

Till some resistless hour shall rise and move

Your hearts to wake and hunger after love

And thirst with passionate longing for the things

That burn your brows with blood-red sufferings

Till ye have battled with great grief and fears

And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years

Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife

Children, ye have not lived: for this is life

4. Later Life

by Christina Rossetti

Something this foggy day, a something which

Is neither of this fog nor of today

Has set me dreaming of the winds that play

Past certain cliffs, along one certain beach

And turn the topmost edge of waves to spray

Ah pleasant pebbly strand so far away

So out of reach while quite within my reach

As out of reach as India or Cathay

I am sick of where I am and where I am not

I am sick of foresight and of memory

I am sick of all I have and all I see

I am sick of self, and there is nothing new

Oh weary impatient patience of my lot!

Thus with myself: how fares it, friends, with you?

Nah, itulah beberapa puisi bahasa Inggris tentang kehidupan yang bisa kamu jadikan motivasi di kehidupanmu. Semoga bermanfaat, ya!