Lunes, Agosto 5, 2013

Philippine Literature




I. Introduction

Philippine literature is the literature associated with the Philippines and includes the legends of prehistory, and the colonial legacy of the Philippines. Most of the notable literature of the Philippines was written during the Spanish period and the first half of the 20th century in Spanish language. Philippine literature is written
 in SpanishEnglishTagalog, or other native Philippine languages.

Religious drama
  • The Panunuluyan– Literally, seeking entrance, the Tagalog version of the Mexican Las Posadas. Held on the eve of Christmas, it dramatizes Joseph's and Mary's search for Bethlehem.
  • Cenaculo – Was the dramatization of the passion and death of Jesus Christ.
  • Salubong – An Easter play that dramatizes the meeting of the Risen Christ and His Mother.
  • Moriones – Refers to the participants dressed roman soldiers, their identities hidden behind colorful, sometimes grotesque, wooden masks.
  • The Santacruzan – Performed during the month of May which have the devotion for the Holy Cross. It depicts St. Elena's search for the cross on which Christ died.
  • Pangangaluwa – An interesting socio-religious practice on All Saint's Day which literally means for The Soul.
Secular dramas
These were generally held during the nine nights of vigil and prayers after someone's death, on the first death anniversary when the family members put away their mourning clothes.
  • The Karagatan – comes from the legendary practice of testing the mettle of young men vying for a maiden's hand. The maiden's ring would be dropped into sea and whoever retrieves it would have the girl's hand in marriage.
  • The Duplo – A forerunner of the balagtasan. The performances consist of two teams; One composed of young women called Dupleras or Belyakas; and the other, of young men calledDupleros or Belyakos.
  • The Comedia – It is about a courtly love between, a prince and a princess of different religions. It is about a Christian-Muslim relationship
Modern literature (20th and 21st century)
The greatest portion of Spanish literature was written during the American period, most often as an expression of pro-Hispanic nationalism, by those who had been educated in Spanish or had lived in the Spanish-speaking society of the big cities, and whose principles entered in conflict with the American cultural trends.[citation needed] Such period of Spanish literary production—i.e., between the independence of Spain in 1898 and well ahead into the decade of the 1940s—is known as Edad de Oro del Castellano en Filipinas. Some prominent writers of this era wereWenceslao Retana and Claro Mayo Recto, both in drama and essay; Antonio M. Abad and Guillermo Gomez Wyndham, in the narrative; Fernando María Guerrero and Manuel Bernabé, both in poetry. The predominant literary style was the so-called "Modernismo", a mixture of elements from the French Parnassien and Symboliste schools, as promoted by some Latin American and Peninsular Spanish writers (e.g. the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, the Mexican Amado Nervo, the Spaniard Francisco Villaespesa, and the Peruvian José Santos Chocano as major models).


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III. OWN cOMPOSITION




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Contrast Poem

Turn Around Poem

Haiku Poem

Short Story
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IV. Filipino Contemporary Writers

NCR


1.Edilberto K. Tiempo



Amador Daguio (1906-1983) since I started this blog several months ago
but never got around to write about him until now. See, there’s a time
for everything
.



Starting January 2012, every third Sunday of the month, Mel U of The Reading Life
(whose blog has been an inspiration in my book blogging experience) and
I engage in a joint venture that involves featuring Filipino writers
venture. We hope you could participate in this endeavor.
and their works. We welcome anyone who is interested to join us in thi
s

So far, we have featured the following writers and their works:

1. Dead Stars and A Night in the Hills by Paz Marquez Benitez
2. Servant Girl and Magnificence by Estrella Alfon

Today,
we talk about Amador Daguio and his short stories. I was supposed to
write only about his “The Woman who Look out of the Window”, which I
of his memorable poems, simply because I utterly admire the author. If
will, but I will also talk about his “The Wedding Dance” and a couple
I’m asked for my top five favorite Filipino short story writers, Daguio
will most likely rank my first
.


Daguio
(1912-1966) is a poet, fictionist, essayist, critic, and playwright. He
was born in Laoag, Ilocos Norte. (Mel U has been to Vigan, which is
Vigan! It’s my dream holiday, for crying out loud!) Anyway, Daguio wa
near Laoag, a fact that naturally got my mind green with envy. I mean
,s not raised in Laoag but grew up in Kalinga, formerly a subprovince (now a
his short stories.
separate province) of Mountain Province, which became the setting of most o
f

Remarkably,
while living there, Daguio was in close contact with the place, the
people, and the language. It is no wonder he wrote perceptively and
Dance and The Woman who Looked out of the Window. For him, the Filip
intimately about people in the mountains in his stories The Wedding ino
ife, customs, traditions, and folklore, for “
writer should draw inspirations from native elements, like the Filipino
lwe
might be able to achieve something at least more worthy of ourselves
that what is merely a ridiculous aping of what is foreign to our own
”. Here’s one of his poems, Man of Earth, as an example (which has been taken up well in my high school):
feeling and though
t


Pliant is the bamboo;
I am man of earth.
They say that from the bamboo
We had our first birth.

Am I of the body,
Or of the green leaf?
Do you have to whisper?
Do I have to whisper
My every sin and grief?

If the wind passes by,
Must I stoop, and try
To measure fully
My flexibility?

“in the suffering and miseries of his lonely and repressed boyhood...
and the struggles of poor people [around him]”. His ultimate dream was
think I really like the works of this writer because I share with him
“to translate the beauty, immensity, and depth of the Filipino soul”. I
his love for our country.

Here’s one of his poems I like, To Those of Other Lands, which is written in the context of events that happened during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines:

Though I may speak the English language,
Let me tell you: I am a Filipino,
I stand for that which make my nation,
The virtues of the country where I was born.

I may have traces of the American,
Be deceived not: Spain has, too, her traces in me,
But my songs are those of my race

Would you prove the courage of our blood?
The frank disdain of the man who is free?
We might have had chains, but of the spirit never;
Beyond us we see time, leveler of all.

Mistake not our seeming softness to you.
If we bow, it is not that we are slaves,
If we feed you, our hearts are in the offer,
Our giving not mere service of the lips.

Simple our manners? Our fathers gave the graces,
Our hearts pure as the hills, clear as the seas,
I tell you not of greed nor of accumulation,
We have washed off these stains of the West.

Look through us then, beyond what you think,
Know us, understand us; we, too, have our pride.
If you give us flowers, we exchange pearls;
We greet you sincerely; acclaim what we have.

Technically,
Daguio belongs to the “emergence period” (1935-1945) in Philippine
literature when the period said to have been the more productive,
in English. During this period, writers were already consciously and
producing distinctive work in the half century of Filipino writing
purposefully write stories that reflect the Filipino way of life,
nd the environment. At the same time, Filipino writers were able to gai
including our values and traditions as well as the tropical climate
an full control of of the English language, using it successfully as an
would have loved to go back to the past and see the period for myself.
effective literary medium. There were writing groups and awards formed. I

However,
most unfortunately and very sadly, the Japanese occupation  in
1941-1945 brought the flowering of the literary creativity in the
Philippines to an abrupt close. There was so much fear during the
ut of course, good ‘ol Daguio joined the resistance and secretly wrote
occupation that writers could not think; survival was a priority.
Bpoems, later compiled into a publication called Bataan Harvest. To Those of
friend of another writer in resistance, Manuel E. Arguilla, who is fro
Other Lands is one of his works during the Japanese occupation. He was a clos
em La Union and who wrote another of my favorite short story, How my Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife. I hope Mel and I could feature him
in the succeeding readings in Philippine literature
.


The first work by Daguio that I’ve read is The Wedding Dance
when I was in college and I’ve read it twice again within the past
seven years. It’s a bittersweet story of how culture, traditions, are
more important to a man than his love for his wife. It is more like a
e second wedding dance of the man where the dramatic conversation betwe
necessity for the man to leave his wife. The Wedding Dance refers to t
hen him and the wife he is about to leave for another woman who could bear
o experience the climax and taste the bitter end.
him sons. Ah, that’s the crux of the matter, and you should read the story
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2.Bienvenido Santos




 3.Alejandro Roces 



4.Nick Joaquin




5. Jessica Hagedorn


6. Gilda Cordero-Fernando 




7. Linda Ty Casper  


8. Lualhati Bautista

9. Manuel Buising



sample works


10. Edgardo M. Reyes


sample works


REGION 1


1.Juan S.P. Hidalgo, Jr
biography




2.Jose Maria Sison




3.Gregorio C. Brillantes



4. Pedro Bucaneg



5. Salvador P. Lopez 



6. Manuel Arguilla



7.Carlos Bulosan




8. Amador Daguio



9.Isabelo de los Reyes


10. F. Sionil Jose


REGION 11

1. Fernando M. Maramag


2. Leona Florentino  


3. Gregorio Aglipay 
                               
biography       

  
4. Emmanuel F. Lacaba 

         
  biography  
          
               

   5. Ines Taccad Cammayo                                                
             
  biography 
    

6. Alfred Yuson 
  


7. Norman Wilwayco 



  8. Naya S. Valdellon                                    




                     
9. Ana Marie Villanueva-Lykes 
                                                  
10. Amado Vinuya    

           
biography           

       



REGION 111

1. Francisco Balagtas


  biography      
                                                                                                    

2. Zoilo Galang        
                                       


3. Angela Manalang Glo
 biography   

        
sample work        
                           
4. Rony V. Diaz


5. Virgilio S. Almarino



 biography         


                                    
6. Carlo J. Caparas 
    
biography                               


7. Nicanor Abelardo 
                                  


8. Marcelo H. del Pilar 


                                                      
9. Rene Villanueva
                                
 biography          


10. Jessica Zafra



Region IV


1. Alejandro G. Abadilla 

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2. Jose Rizal 

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3. Jose Dalisay, Jr.

                                                BIOGRAPHY 

                                                
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4. Paz M. Latorena 

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5. Paz Marquez Binetez 

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6. Maximo M. Kalaw 

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7. Horacio dela Costa, S.J

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8. N.V.M Gonzalaes 

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                                              SAMPLE WORK



9. Mars Ravelo 

                                             BIOGRAPHY



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10. Diosdado G. Alesna

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Region V


1. Ricardo Lee  
                                              BIOGRAPHY

                                          SAMPLE WORK     


2. Diana Agbayani 

                                  BIOGRAPHY and Its WORK 



3. Abdon M. Balde Jr.

                                            BIOGRAPHY



                                          SAMPLE WORK



4. Donato Mejia Alvarez

                                            BIOGRAPHY 



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Region VI
1. Dominador I. Ilio 
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2. Antonio S. Gabila 
                                              BIOGRAPHY 

                                           SAMPLE WORK

3. Merlie M. Alunan 
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4. Stevan Javellana 
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5. Peter Solis Nery 
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6. John Iremil Teodoro 
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                                          SAMPLE WORK 


7. Bryan Mari Agros

                                              BIOGRAPHY 



                                           SAMPLE WORK



8. Mark Anthony A. Grejaldo 

                                  BIOGRAPHY and Its WORK 



9. Daisy H. Avellana

                                  BIOGRAPHY and Its WORK 

Region VII

1. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
                                                BIOGRAPHY
                                                               
                                             SAMPLE WORK
                                                 


2. Estrella Alfon

                                                BIOGRAPHY

                                         
                                             SAMPLE WORK


3. Simeon Dumdum Jr. 

                                                BIOGRAPHY



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4. Gemino Henson Abad

                                               BIOGRAPHY 



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5. Temiskoles Adlawan

                                              BIOGRAPHY



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6. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

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7. Peter Bacho

                                               BIOGRAPHY 



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8. Marjorie Evasco

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9. Emeniano Acain Somoza Jr, 

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 10. Ernesto Superal Yee 
                                      BIOGRAPHY 

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Region VIII
1. Francisco Soc Rodrigo 
                                           BIOGRAPHY 

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2. Carlos A. Angeles 
                                           BIOGRAPHY 

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3. Ramon Escoda 
                                           BIOGRAPHY 

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Region IX

1. Martha Cecilia 
                                               BIOGRAPHY 
                                         
                                             SAMPLE WORK


2. Cesar Ruiz Aquino

                                              BIOGRAPHY 



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Region X

1. Joey Ayala 
                                            BIOGRAPHY 

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2. 

Region XI
1. Leoncio P. Deriada 
                                           BIOGRAPHY 

                                        SAMPLE WORK


2. Danny Sillada 

                                           BIOGRAPHY



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V. Philippine Literature Definition and Samples


Poetry

Poetry (from the Latin poeta, a poet) is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning.

Examples of poetry poem:

Types of Poetry Examples

Learning about the different types of poetry is often easier when you review examples of the different types. Each example gives you the opportunity to see the differences between the style and tone of each type.

Examples Highlight the Poetic Types

Each type of poetry is characterized by its own style. By understanding the various styles, you are better able to learn the variances between each of the different types.

Haiku Poems

The Old Pond by Matshuo Basho is an example of a haiku:
  • “The old pond-- a frog jumps in, sound of water.”
Truth in Advertising by Yahia Lababidi is another example of a haiku:
  • “Morning epiphany, applicable to love and life, in haiku-like purity.”

Free Verse Poems

Because free verse poems are the least well defined, there are numerous examples of free verse poems. This excerpt from This is Marriage, is by Marianne Moore is one such example:
This institution, perhaps one should say enterpriseout of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind about a thing one has believed in, requiring public promises of one's intention to fulfil a private obligation: I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time, this fire-gilt steel alive with goldenness;
This excerpt from Little Father by Li-Young Lee is another example of free verse poetry:
I buried my father in my heart.
Now he grows in me, my strange son,
My little root who won’t drink milk,
Little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night,
Little clock spring newly wet
In the fire,little grape, parent to the future
Wine, a son the fruit of his own son,
Little father I ransom with my life.

Cinquains

A cinquain is a five-line poem inspired by Japanese haiku's. There are many different variations of cinquain including American Cinquains, didactic cinquains, reverse cinquains, butterfly cinquains and crown cinquains
TreeStrong,
TallSwaying,
swinging,
sighing
Memories of summerOak

Epic Poems

An epic is a long and narrative poem that normally tells a story about a hero or an adventure. Epics can be oral stories or can be poems in written form.  The Illiad and the Odyssey are examples of famous epic poems, as is The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.

Ballad Poems

Ballad poems also tell a story, like epic poems do. However, ballad poetry is often based on a legend or a folk tale. Ballad poems may take the form of songs and may contain a moral or a lesson.

The Mermaid by Unknown author

Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below.

Name Poems

While a name verse poem can be as simple as using an adjective to describe a person that begins with each letter of that person's name, these poems can also be far more beautiful works of art. For example, here is a name poem for a person named Alexis:
“Alexis seems quite shy and somewhat frail,
Leaning, like a tree averse to light,
Evasively away from her delight.
X-rays, though, reveal a sylvan sprite,
Intense as a bright bird behind her veil,
Singing to the moon throughout the night.”
As you can see, each line of the poem begins with the letters of the name Alexis. This can be done with any name - for example, the following name poem is a  poem for a person named Taylor:
“Taylor likes each sentiment to be
Appropriate to its own time and place.
Years may roll like waves across her shore,
Leaving none of what there was before,
Obliterating every sign of grace.
Reason not, says Taylor, with the sea!”

Sonnets

The poems of William Shakespeare provide excellent types of poetry examples for sonnets.

Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not
Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Shakespeare was not the only source of sonnets.

Sonnet of Demeter - An Italian Sonnet

Oh the pirate stars, they have no mercy!
Masquerading as hope they tell their lies;
Only the young can hear their lullabies.
But I am barren and I am thirsty
Since she has gone. No hope is there for me.
I will roam and curse this earth and these skies--
Death from life which Zeus sovereign denies.
My heart's ill shall the whole world's illness be
Till she is returned-- my daughter, my blood--
From the dark hand of Hades to my care.
With my tears these mortals shall know a flood
To show Poseidon's realm desert and bare.
No myrtle shall flower, no cypress bud
Till the gods release her...and my despair.

Ode to Job

Job came down
in awoosh, outstretched
and gliding into the horizon.
Blue shadowed
flight arrested by the beckoning marsh.
His greatness bears much
yet not the anguish of ancient prophecy.
Situated grievances weigh feathery
on this long, strong back. 
Unconscious emotion numbs
while time drifts out
another sun salted day.

Prose

Prose is the most typical form of language. The English word 'prose' is derived from the Latin prōsa, which literally translates as 'straight-forward.'

Examples of prose poetry:


from Noir
Fred Muratori
My Blue Heaven
Max Winter
Chicago
Toni Olofsson
Forces
Jay Meek
Night Fishing
Nin Andrews
Pslam for Fay
Philip Dacey
Black Box
David Lazar
Tohu
Paol Keineg
Adolescence
Nin Andrews
The Prodigal Son: Amnesty
Dionisio D. Martinez
Narcissus
Robert Clinton
A Village
Michael Martone
The Body
Gabriela Mistral
Trivial Pursuit
Charles H. Webb
Bachelorhood
Robert Perchan
Against the Evidence
A Book Review
Dear Shahid,
Agha Shahid Ali
The Obsession
Nin Andrews
The Accident
John Bradley
In this moment ...
Ales Debeljak
Alphabet Soup
Stuart Dybek
Sleep
t
Russell Edson
The Way We Live
Elke Erb
Forever
David Ignatow
October Lambs
Sybil James
September
Louis Jenkins
After the Weather
Mary A. Koncel
Doing Hatha Yoga
Robert Hill Long
La Feria
Naomi Shihab Nye
Time
Robert Perchan
Theseus and Ariadne
Charles Simic
War Mice
Goran Simic
This
Rosmarie Waldrop
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Peter Wortsman


Amador Daguio (1906-1983) since I started this blog several months ago
but never got around to write about him until now. See, there’s a time




for everything
.



Starting January 2012, every third Sunday of the month, Mel U of The Reading Life

(whose blog has been an inspiration in my book blogging experience) and

I engage in a joint venture that involves featuring Filipino writers
venture. We hope you could participate in this endeavor.

and their works. We welcome anyone who is interested to join us in thi
s

So far, we have featured the following writers and their works:


1. Dead Stars and A Night in the Hills by Paz Marquez Benitez

2. Servant Girl and Magnificence by Estrella Alfon


Today,

we talk about Amador Daguio and his short stories. I was supposed to

write only about his “The Woman who Look out of the Window”, which I
of his memorable poems, simply because I utterly admire the author. If

will, but I will also talk about his “The Wedding Dance” and a couple
I’m
asked for my top five favorite Filipino short story writers, Daguio
will most likely rank my first
.

Daguio
(1912-1966) is a poet, fictionist, essayist, critic, and playwright. He
was born in Laoag, Ilocos Norte. (Mel U has been to Vigan, which is
Vigan! It’s my dream holiday, for crying out loud!) Anyway, Daguio wa
near Laoag, a fact that naturally got my mind green with envy. I mean
,s not raised in Laoag but grew up in Kalinga, formerly a subprovince (now a
his short stories.
separate province) of Mountain Province, which became the setting of most o
f

Remarkably,
while living there, Daguio was in close contact with the place, the
people, and the language. It is no wonder he wrote perceptively and
Dance and The Woman who Looked out of the Window. For him, the Filip
intimately about people in the mountains in his stories The Wedding ino
ife, customs, traditions, and folklore, for “
writer should draw inspirations from native elements, like the Filipino
lwe
might be able to achieve something at least more worthy of ourselves
that what is merely a ridiculous aping of what is foreign to our own
”. Here’s one of his poems, Man of Earth, as an example (which has been taken up well in my high school):
feeling and though
t

Pliant is the bamboo;
I am man of earth.
They say that from the bamboo
We had our first birth.

Am I of the body,
Or of the green leaf?
Do you have to whisper?
Do I have to whisper
My every sin and grief?

If the wind passes by,
Must I stoop, and try
To measure fully
My flexibility?

“in the suffering and miseries of his lonely and repressed boyhood...
and the struggles of poor people [around him]”. His ultimate dream was
think I really like the works of this writer because I share with him
“to translate the beauty, immensity, and depth of the Filipino soul”. I
his love for our country.

Here’s one of his poems I like, To Those of Other Lands, which is written in the context of events that happened during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines:

Though I may speak the English language,
Let me tell you: I am a Filipino,