LIT 1/GEC 322: Philippine Literature/Panitikan

ACTIVITY 13

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Instructions: Read and make an analysis of the literary works below. Answer the questions that follow.

Prayer of a Student
Trinidad L. Tarrosa-Subido

To learn, dear Lord, about these em’rald leaves,

These tendered-petalled blosssoms laved in dew.
From where they came, and how and why they lived;
Or yet to know why ocean waters lash
Their atomed selves against the granite rocks
That senseless lie along the shores; to know
Why rainbows fling their ribboned souls athwart
The eastern skies when sunrays flick the west;
Why lightning furies rage when storm winds still
The thunder echoes hurtling through the dark;
To learn about the earth, about the moon,
The sun and lesser stars and other worlds
That span the cerulescent firmament.
To learn great facts about the little things
And then, while knowing these, not to unlearn-
Never, O God, to unlearn the child-learned truth
That thou art in reality the source,
The Why, the How, the Wherefore, of all things.

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COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS: (5 pts.each)

1. What is the poem about?

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2. What child-learned truth is referred to in the poem? Did you learn this when you were still a child?

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3. What message does the poem convey?

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WHEN I SEE A BARONG BARONG

By: Maximo Ramos

When I see a barong-barong neighborhood in the heart of war-torn Manila;

When I behold beside the Pasig sudden lean-tos defended against sun and rain with salvaged sheets of tin;

When I take a truck ride through Suburbia and find nipa huts clustered within the shell-punched walls of former
mansions of stone –

I do not look away in shame or throw up my hands despairing for my people.

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I fill my chest with the bracing breeze of this my country and say:

Though my race has been pushed around in his own land for nearly half a thousand years,

Though my people have been double-crossed again and again by foreigners,

Though my race has been pitted against themselves down the centuries;

I joy to discover that they are whole and remained unbroken in spirit;

Building them makeshift huts of nipa and salvaged tin and standing straight with heads against the stars.

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:

1. Enumerate the symbol/s found in the poem. Support your answer.

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2. Who is the persona in the poem? Support your answer.

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3. Determine the local color of the poem. Expound your answer.

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4. Determine the shade of the poem. Elaborate.

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