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 Spanish, English, Tagalog,
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).
II. Students Output
Contrast Poem
Turn Around Poem
Haiku Poem
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
.
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:
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 coupleI’m asked for my top five favorite Filipino short story writers, Daguio
.
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 thought
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 writingpurposefully 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
closem 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
.
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 then 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
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
4. Emmanuel F. Lacaba
5. Ines Taccad Cammayo
7. Norman Wilwayco
9. Ana Marie Villanueva-Lykes
10. Amado Vinuya
3. Angela Manalang Glo
4. Rony V. Diaz
5. Virgilio S. Almarino
6. Carlo J. Caparas
7. Nicanor Abelardo
8. Marcelo H. del Pilar
9. Rene Villanueva
10. Jessica Zafra
Region IV
4. Paz M. Latorena
5. Paz Marquez Binetez
6. Maximo M. Kalaw
7. Horacio dela Costa, S.J
8. N.V.M Gonzalaes
9. Mars Ravelo
10. Diosdado G. Alesna
Region V
2. Diana Agbayani
3. Abdon M. Balde Jr.
4. Donato Mejia Alvarez
Region VI
1. Dominador I. Ilio
2. Antonio S. Gabila
BIOGRAPHY
3. Merlie M. Alunan
4. Stevan Javellana
5. Peter Solis Nery
6. John Iremil Teodoro
7. Bryan Mari Agros
8. Mark Anthony A. Grejaldo
9. Daisy H. Avellana
Region VII
3. Simeon Dumdum Jr.
4. Gemino Henson Abad
5. Temiskoles Adlawan
6. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
7. Peter Bacho
8. Marjorie Evasco
9. Emeniano Acain Somoza Jr,
Region VIII
1. Francisco Soc Rodrigo
2. Carlos A. Angeles
3. Ramon Escoda
SAMPLE WORK
Region XI
1. Leoncio P. Deriada
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
Examples Highlight the Poetic Types
Haiku Poems
- “The old pond-- a frog jumps in, sound of water.”
- “Morning epiphany, applicable to love and life, in haiku-like purity.”
Free Verse Poems
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;
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
TreeStrong,
TallSwaying,
swinging,
sighing
Memories of summerOak
Epic Poems
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
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
“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.”
“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
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.
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
Fred Muratori
My Blue Heaven
Max Winter
Max Winter
Chicago
Toni Olofsson
Toni Olofsson
A Piece of Black Coal Found Under a Tree
Robert Bly
Robert Bly
Forces
Jay Meek
Jay Meek
Mary Koncel
Psalm
Psalm
Thursday Afternoon: Life is Sweet
Holly Iglesias
Holly Iglesias
Night Fishing
Nin Andrews
Nin Andrews
Pslam for Fay
Philip Dacey
Philip Dacey
Black Box
David Lazar
David Lazar
Tohu
Paol Keineg
Paol Keineg
Adolescence
Nin Andrews
Nin Andrews
The Prodigal Son: Amnesty
Dionisio D. Martinez
Dionisio D. Martinez
Narcissus
Robert Clinton
Robert Clinton
The Goldilocks Compulsion
Russell Edson
Russell Edson
A Village
Michael Martone
Michael Martone
The Body
Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral
Trivial Pursuit
Charles H. Webb
Charles H. Webb
Bachelorhood
Robert Perchan
Robert Perchan
Against the Evidence
A Book Review
A Book Review
Dear Shahid,
Agha Shahid Ali
Agha Shahid Ali
The Obsession
Nin Andrews
Nin Andrews
Warning to the Reader
Robert Bly
Robert Bly
The Accident
John Bradley
John Bradley
In this moment ...
Ales Debeljak
Ales Debeljak
Alphabet Soup
Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek
The Way We Live
Elke Erb
Elke Erb
The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
Lawrence Fixel
Lawrence Fixel
Forever
David Ignatow
David Ignatow
October Lambs
Sybil James
Sybil James
September
Louis Jenkins
Louis Jenkins
Self-Portrait (Kneeling)
Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson
After the Weather
Mary A. Koncel
Mary A. Koncel
Light Singing Before the Earth
Gian Lombardo
Gian Lombardo
Doing Hatha Yoga
Robert Hill Long
Robert Hill Long
The Mussorgsky Question
Morton Marcus
Morton Marcus
Leaving the Roadside Motel
Jay Meek
Jay Meek
La Feria
Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye
Time
Robert Perchan
Robert Perchan
Theseus and Ariadne
Charles Simic
Charles Simic
War Mice
Goran Simic
Goran Simic
Letter From the Cabin
Mark Vinz
Mark Vinz
This
Rosmarie Waldrop
Rosmarie Waldrop
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Peter Wortsman
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:
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
.
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 thought
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,