Of Hurting and Healing: A Stylistic Study of Non-Regular Students^ New Culture through Emphatic Digital Sanative Poetry Writing Andreas Akun, Wiwik Andreani, Fredy Purnomo, Reni Agias Putri, Keenan Ario, Ikhsan Bella Persada
Bina Nusantara University
Abstract
Covid-19 has forced humans to transform their learning culture into digital culture where learning challenges and opportunities are widely contested. Online learning seemed to be the only choice when the pandemic started in early 2019 and this has brought a new culture, especially for the Non-Regular students. The aims of this study are to trace students^ learning difficulties and opportunities in their new learning culture through their poetry writing focusing on hurting and healing words, their relationship to academic self-esteem and anxiety, and to find out the more preferred platform in expressing and coping with learning challenges. Stylistic analysis of the metaphorical expressions found in the poems is done and verified. Data is gathered through each students^ poem, its metaphorical textual analysis, questionnaire (DASS=Depression Anxiety Stress Scale and RSES=Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale), and deep interview with the students. The results show that students^ learning difficulties stem from low self-esteem, higher depression and anxiety regarding their learning and future pressures and fears. The more preferred poetic expression is done through digital poetry writing application than manual/traditional one, due to its practicality, emphatic and creative assistance. The research implies that sanative poetry writing may be proposed as an alternative coaching medium to therapeutically assist non-regular students to better succeed their study.
Keywords: Digital sanative writing, empathy, non-regular students, poetry, stylistics
