Aesthetic Quality in Elementary School Students' Poetry Resulting from Artificial Intelligence Formulation

Abstract

This study aims to describe and analyze the quality of aesthetic elements in poems written by fifth-grade elementary school students produced through the assistance of Artificial Intelligence formulations. Amidst the rapid integration of technology in education, debates have arisen regarding the originality and aesthetic quality of literary works involving algorithms. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach with formal objects in the form of 20 student poems with nature, social, and family themes. Data analysis focused on four main aspects of poetics, namely: diction, imagery, style (figures of speech), and musicality. The results show that the poems formulated by AI have aesthetic qualities that remain grounded in the characteristics of child psychology. First, a dialectic of diction was found between students' affective honesty (spontaneity) and AI's lexical enrichment that strengthens the descriptive-aesthetic aspect. Second, the use of multisensory imagery (visual, auditory, and tactile) demonstrates AI's ability to concretize students' operational imagination. Third, the dominance of personification reflects children's natural animism, combined with the technologically enhanced poetic sentence structure, creating profound ecological and social empathy. Fourth, the musicality of the text is maintained through the regularity of rhyme and the use of onomatopoeia, which maintain the identity of children's play. The conclusion of this study confirms that AI technology does not diminish the authenticity of students' feelings but rather serves as a scaffolding that enhances the aesthetic quality and expressiveness of students' poetry. This research has implications for the need to adapt collaborative literary pedagogy with digital technology at the elementary school level.