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Gemino Abad
Poetry: The root and crown of languages
Sublime experience
Poetry causes as a
Intense emotion
Poetry is the outpour of
Oral Tradition
Story telling/ song and chant
Pre-colonial
Written Tradition
Baybayin is an example of
Awit bugtong salawikain epiko
Filipino Poetic Forms
Awit
Many forms of multiple purposes
Salawikain
Filipino proverbs/beliefs
Epiko
Long episodic chanted poem
Spanish
Period of altered traditions
American
Period where educational system was established
American
Free verse and new criticism/ freedom of expression
Writers could not earn a living, not yet mastered english, are culturally confused due to colonization
Fr. Miguel A. Bernad, S.J.: “Philippine Literature was perpetually inchoate because:
Romantic Spirit, Formalist and Poststructuralist Period
3 Strains of PH poetry
Romantic Spirit
Apprenticeship stage
Romantic Spirit
Struggle with both language and subject
Formalist Period
Learning stage
Formalist Tradition
1.The achievement of poetic distance and control over language and subject.
2.Organic unity, emotional control, metaphor, irony, and ambiguity
3.Establishment of individual poetic voice.
Poststructuralist Period
has a better grasp of the English language and a greater sense of the poem as an art.
Poststructuralist Period
Filipinos are comfortable to express themselves in English
Merlie Alunan
The Haiyan Dead
Trope
A word phrase or image used in a different way
Remembering and re-membering
Poem is a tool for
Close reading
Careful sustained interpretation of a passage or text
Literal and figurative
Two ways to interpret a poem
Fluidity
Lack of punctuation
Kristian Sendon Kordero
Mayon by
Tigsikan
A game creating witty versified extemporaneous toast during a round of drinking
To see ordinary things with fresh eyes
Defamiliarization
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