Syair Alif Ba Ta: The poet and his mission

• Main Author: Noriah Mohamad,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2003
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1221/1/Syair_Alif_Ba_Ta-The_Poet_and_His_Mission.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1221/; http://www.ukm.my/sari/index.html

Syair Alif Ba Ta comprises of 72 verses in Jawi and Romanized scripts, side by side. In this work, the unknown writer used the letter A to begin the first word in each verse. As the other writer then, he referred to himself as a poor vagabond with nothing to call his own. But, he was aware that u...