 Anwar opined that Amir , through Nyanyi Sunyi , brought a new style to the Indonesian language , with its " compactly violent , sharp , and yet short " sentences . In a 1945 article he wrote ( translation by Raffel ) , " Before Amir ( Hamzah ) one could call the old poetry a destructive force ; but what a bright light he shone on the new language " . 
