Marginalisasi Profesi Dukun Bayi dalam Puisi “Nini?Nini Dukun Bayi” Karya Iman Budhi Santosa

This research aims to reveal (1) referential meaning of a poem entitled “Nini?-Nini Dukun Bayi”; (2) ungrammaticality, symbolic meaning, and opposition pairs of the poem. Semiotic? structural theory of Riffaterre and library research method are conducted in this research. Poetry has an indirect expression with two layers meaning (referential and semiotic). The analysis shows (1) referential meaning of “Nini-?Nini Dukun Bayi” poem that illustrates marginalization of dukun bayi ‘traditional midwife’ by bidan ‘midwife; (2) ungrammaticality, symbolic meaning, and opposition pairs of “Nini?Nini Dukun Bayi” in modernity and traditional matters.