A. Samad Saids Writing Styles A. Samad Said is a renowned writer who had contributed a lot in Malaysian Literature.

He had written lot of poems, short stories, novels, and even plays. He described his works as a record of the past. It is also a type of measurements of a civilization of a race, specifically the Malay. As a man of literature, all of his works are written in Malay language, but in a normal way. He uses an Indonesian variation, which has more impact as it has a sense of ascetics from the rhythm and pace of his writings. For his poems, A. Samad Said focuses on the form of his poems. Most of his poems rhyme at the end of each line such as in the poem Gagak Parit. His writing also has influences of words from other languages. He also borrows words for other foreign language to further boost the effects of his poems. For example, linka (The Czech and Slovakian word for line), chandni (Hindi word for moonlight), kaudu (Estonian word for oral), qalbu (Arabic word for heart), Ramadhan (Arabic word for fasting month) and redha (Arabic word for completely agree). The most interesting thing about his poems is that each line of his poem has the same number of syllables and he mentioned during our interview that he will not publish the poem until he is satisfied with the number of syllables and the rhymes. This can be seen in his latest poem, Elergi Suria Dan Bumi. Each line in the poem is exactly 15 syllables to be exact.

ELEGI SURIA DAN BUMI Di dewan yang syahdu aku terdengar kali ini gerak rentak gelegak minyak Suria dan Bumi. Aku terdengar jeritan gendang lagu simpati, tapi, sekedar terdengar gersik wang ihsan nanti. Aku fahami luka murbawan pilu dikisah, mendengar jelas gugus syair kempen nan terindah; cuma amat samar bayang tarikh bagi pengundi pemilik kod 71 yang bangat dikasihi. Yang lara khabarnya bakal tetap disimbah harta, senyaring suara, sejitu kata, semontel dana. Inilah antara janji anugerah terhebat

di tengah kabus tarikh mengundi yang sarat pekat. Antara bajet kerdip permata dan bajet Jingga, kita rombak akar undi agar murni semula. Kita nyanyi senandung Gebengelegi yang resah, sambil menjeritkan slogan angkuh ke Putrajaya. Kita sedang daki Titiwangsa berimba asli, cemas turuni lurah yang banyak tertarah kini. Benar, di hadapan udang kini bertimbun batu. Nyata dana royalti yang akan tersonglap dulu. As for his novels, he uses his own life experience as a subject in his novels. This is explained during our interview with him. He uses his own experience to make the writing more realistic and believable. This also rises his way of writing of placing antihero in his writings. This is due to his way of writing was influenced by realism. This sort of writing was from the authors that he likes to read coming from mostly English, Russian, and German writers in his younger age. This also shows that he does not want to use the typical Malaysian genre of writing styles as he loves to experiment. This can be seen in his novel, Salina. As for the novel Daerah Zeni, he experimented by using the philosophy Existentialism. Finally, his plays were mostly made up not by his own will, but as a request by others who are close to him. The way he seeks inspiration for his plays is by traveling and watching how people do with their daily life.