In one of his poems, Chairil Anwar said of himself,
I am a wild beast
Driven from the herd
But at the end of the poem, he was more optimistic:
I want to live a thousand more years!
However, in the final year of his life, he realized that what he wanted was impossible: Life is just delaying defeatbefore we finally succumb.
Chairil died in 1949 at the young age of 27. His life was full of suffering and paradox. Yet, poor as he was, the thin man with a t...