Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Reviewer

Traditions and Locations The Filipino Poem

Poem- is a composition in verse form, and it has rhythmic and metrical pattern.
Songs or Awit- Used extensively by the Pre-Hispanic Filipinos

• Uyayi- lullaby songs

• Soliranin- songs for travelers

• Kumintang- songs for war

• Maluway- songs for collective labor

• Kundiman- songs relating to love and courtship

Image- the use of gurative language to represent objects, events, and actions in a
way that is physically appealing

Meter- basic rhythmic structure of a line poetry

Allusion- gure of speech that is said or written that is intended to make you think of a
particular thing or person

Expansion- the possibility of images to go beyond what they normally mean, to

extend, or grow in meaning so that they not merely literal but become gurative

Figurative Language- when words or phrases go beyond their literal meaning and
convey a di erent set of meanings to the reader

Salvador P. Lopez- writer who developed new themes beyond the popular romantic
themes

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Bugtong- riddle that used talinghaga or metaphor

- It is a type of question that describes something in a di cult and confusing

way and has a clever or funny answer.

Sawikain or Salawikain- It is use to express pieces of wisdom or beliefs that were

important to Filipino society.

Epiko or Epic- The major pre-Hispanic form

- normally about legendary heroes and supernatural creatures and spirits.

Baybayin- Method of writing during the arrival of the Spanish

Pasyon- is a Philippine epic narrative of the life of Jesus Christ, focused on his
Passion, Death, and Resurrection.

- Popularzied by Gaspar Aquino de Belen and perpetrated by Mariano Pilapil

Francisco Baltazar- The most notable poet of the Spanish era

- Known as “Balagtas”

- Florante at Laura

- He belongs to the so called illustrados

Jose Rizal- One of the illustrados

- He wrote the novel El Filibusterismo and Noli Me Tangere

Andres Bonifacio- Father of Katipunan

- He wrote the “Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Bayan”

American

• Free Verse and New Criticism- became the buzzwords of poets during the arrival of
the Americans

• Angela Manalang and Jose Garcia Villa

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Bikol Literature

• Bikolanos is multilingual.

• Screenwriter Ricky Lee

• Marne Kilates- “enfant terrible”

• “An manakot sa doron/Daing aanihon” or “Those afraid of locusts/Will not harvest

anything”.

Mariano Perfecto

• One of the writers from Bikol owned a religious corridos and works

• An Parabareta (the Newsman)

• Imprenta de Nuestra

Señora de Peñafrancia.

Rosario Imperial- Mag-amang Pobre (The Poor Father and Son)

• “An Pagguiao kan mga pastores can pagcamondag ni Jesus duman sa portal sa
belen” (The awakening of the shepherds of Jesus birth)

• “Comedia na dapit sa Dios o magna cahayagan can pagcamondag ni Jesus”

Rawitdawit- a Bicolano penchant for examining and criticizing society

Mayon- Kristian Sendon Cordero

Representation and the Philippine Canon

Oppression

• a familiar word in the Filipino vocabulary

• oppression of the less privileged by the elite, or the oppression of gender by a
patriarchal society.

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• oppression, and the struggle against it, are the common themes in Philippine
literature.

Jose Rizal - Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo were examples of early Filipino
writing expressing itself against oppression.

Literary Expressions:
• Marcelo H. Del Pilar- “Sagot ng Espanya sa Hibik ng Pilipinas”

• Hermenegildo Flores- “Hibik ng Pilipinas sa Inang Espanya”

Aurelio Tolentino y Valenzuela- FIlipino playwright, poet, journalist, and revolutionary.

- “Kahapon, Bukas, at Ngayon”

Jose Corazon “Batute” De Jesus- “Sa Dakong Silangan” a re-telling the history of
the Philippines by way of allegory

Dramatic Situations- the combination of setting, characters, and action in a poem

that is supposed to engage the reader

Persona- the speaker of teller of the poem; rarely the poet himself or herself

Allerogical/Allegory- symbolic representations of truths or generalizations about

human existence

Canon- collection of works determined by a society to have signi cant value and
importance

Personi cation- gure of speech where a nonhuman object is given human qualities

National Artist- Filipino citizen(s) who have been given the title for the recognition of
their signi cant contributions to the development of Philippines Arts and Letters.

Dramatic Monologue- Adding the pronoun “you”

- referring to someone else who may or not be the reader
Symbol- may refer to more than one point of reference

Cirilo Bautista- his poems presents us with a situation that not literal but rather a
representative of other ideas or personalities

Canonical- belonging to a collection of works considered to be valuable to the

Philippines society.

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Philippine Literature: Writing in the Regions

Mount Pinatubo- erupted in Zambales 1991

- the Subic-Clarck-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) is built on top of the rooftops and
houses of the former towns in Pampanga.

Context- “the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs.”

- what is around us that influences us just as we influence it

Essay- “ a short piece of writing that tells a person’s thoughts or opinions about a
subject”
- it can be very pragmatic, or it can be more expressive.

Literary- an essay becomes literary if it is something related to literature

John Jack Wigley- he wrote the effect of the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo on a particular
person’s life

Pampango Literature- is aces in point where the writers are indeed struggling

Pampanga- first province in Luzon to be recognized by the Spaniards