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Hendrik Marsman
Hendrik Marsman (30 September 1899, in Zeist – 21 June 1940, in Gulf of Biscay) was a Dutch poet and writer. He died while escaping to Great Britain, when the ship he was sailing on, the "S.S. Berenice", either suffered a fatal engine-room explosion, or was torpedoed by a German submarine which mistook "Berenice" for another vessel.
Biography.
Marsman studied law and practised in Utrecht, but after 1933 he travelled in Europe and devoted himself to literature
Teeuw also notes that Anwar's early works heavily show the influence of Hendrik Marsman, while other works harken back to Rainer Maria Rilke, J. Slauerhoff, and Xu Zhimo. Muhammad Balfas notes that Anwar was an "intellectual poet", with his works being "detached".
Style.
Teeuw writes that Anwar used everyday language in his poetry, which is emphasized by using it in an unusual manner. Anwar also exploited the morphology of Indonesian, using prefixes and suffixes to make the language more dynamic and give a