Angela Manalang-Gloria

Angela Manalang-Gloria (1907–1995) was a Filipino female poet in the English language.

Early life

Angela Caridad Legaspi Manalang was born on August 2, 1907 in Guagua, Pampanga However, their family later settled
in the Bicol region, particularly in Albay. Caring—as she is fondly called—studied at St. Agnes Academy in Legaspi, where
she graduated valedictorian in elementary. In her senior year, she moved to St. Scholastica's College in Malate, Manila,
where her writing started to get noticed.

Angela Manalang was among the first generation female students at the University of the Philippines. Angela initially
enrolled in law, as suggested by her father. However, with the advice of her professor C.V. Wickers, who also became
her mentor, she eventually transferred to literature.

Writing

It was also during her education at the University of the Philippines that she and poet, Jose Garcia Villa developed a life-
long rivalry. Both poets vied for the position of literary editor of The Philippine Collegian, which Manalang eventually
held for two successive years. In her junior year, she was quietly engaged to Celedonio Gloria whom she married. She
graduated summa cum laude with the degree of Ph.B. in March 1929.

After graduation, Manalang-Gloria worked briefly for the Philippine Herald Mid-Week Magazine. However, this was cut
short when she contracted tuberculosis.

Achievements

She was the author of Revolt from Hymen, a poem protesting against marital rape, which caused her denial by an all-
male jury from winning the Philippine's Commonwealth Literary Awards in 1940. She was also the author of the poetry
collection , Poems, first published in 1940 (and revised in 1950). The collection contained the best of her early work as
well as unpublished poems written between 1934-1938. Her last poem, Old Maid Walking on a City Street can also be
found in the collection. This book was her entry to the Commonwealth Literary Awards, losing to Rafael Zulueta y da
Costa’s verse Like the Molave.[1]

Personal life

On March 11, 1945, her husband Celedonio and her son Ruben were attacked by a Japanese patrol in Alitagtag,
Batangas. Though her husband died, Ruben was able to survive, yet his trauma had been so severe that he could not
bring himself to recount the attack. This event left Manalang-Gloria a young widow with three children to support, which
forced her to abandon writing and enter the abaca business, which she successfully managed.

Death

Angela Manalang-Gloria died in 1995.

REACTION:

She considers her husband her earth. The Earth that nourishes her, the Earth that gives her everything in order to
live.The Earth that provides for her. Her husband is also the air she breathes, the orbit that sets off her directions in
life.Not only does the Earth provides for her living, it also gives her resting place by the time she rejoins her Almighty
Creator.
It may seem that her Earth is the only thing that she needs but no! She also needs her Sky, her Almighty Creator. But
that Doesn't mean that she loves her Earth any less.

Her love for her Earth might be great but it is not comparable to the ocean. Not because her love wasn't real or great or
what, but because in reality, only the Almighty Creator can love as great as an ocean. But she compares her love to the
waves.

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Angela Manalang Gloria's poem, "To the Man I Married," metaphorically portrays her love for her husband by comparing
her need for him to her need for the earth.

Angela Manalang Gloria’s "To the Man I Married" is a combination English/Italian sonnet: it consists of an octave with
the rime scheme ABABCDCD and in the sestet EFEFGG. The overall rime-scheme is that of the English sonnet, but instead
of three quatrains and a couplet, it features the octave and sestet. Part II consists of two rimed quatrains with the rime
scheme ABAB, ACDC.

In the octave, the speaker makes the bold claim addressing the man she married: "You are my earth and all that earth
implies." The speaker’s claim alerts the reader to a metaphorical comparison: the addressee is her earth.

And just what does "earth" imply? Because the person is her earth, he supplies her necessities for life:

"air" that she breathes, the fertile soil where her food is grown.

"gravity that ballasts me in space,"

He gives her direction by his "orbit" that "marks [her] way / And sets [her] north and south, [her] east and west."

As most octaves in Italian sonnets do, this octave has offered a thought that will receive a twist in the sestet. While the
octave implies a very close and sustaining relationship between the speaker and her husband, the sestet asserts that
that closeness does not completely satisfy all of the needs of the speaker as an individual: "If in your arms that hold me
now so near / I lift my keening thoughts to another one."

Even as she acknowledges her close, nurturing relationship with her husband, she finds that she needs "another one,"
because of her "keening thoughts." And then she metaphorically compares herself to a tree whose roots though "long
rooted to the earth" raise their "leaves and flowers to the sun."

She needs the earth, but she also needs the sky, just as the earth does, just as trees need the sun. That does not
diminish her love for and attachment to her husband, who is her earth. The speaker wants to make that fact quite clear
so she repeats her claim

"You who are earth, O never doubt that I / Need you no less because I need the sky."

Metaphor

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Metaphor is the concept of understanding one thing in terms of another. A metaphor is a figure of speech that
constructs an analogy between two things or ideas; the analogy is conveyed by the use of a metaphorical word in place
of some other word. For example: "Her eyes were glistening jewels".
Metaphor is or was also occasionally used to denote rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via
association, comparison or resemblance (e.g., antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy and simile, which are then all considered
types of metaphor). Aristotle used both Language 1992 pp.653">The Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992)
pp.653–55: "A rhetorical figure with two senses, both originating with Aristotle in the 4c BC: (I) All figures of speech that
achieve their effects through association, comparison and resemblance. Figures like antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy
and simile are [in that sense] all species of metaphor. [But] this sense is not current, ..."</ref>

The word metaphor derives from the 16th century Old French métaphore, in turn from the Latin metaphora "carrying
over", which is the romanization of the Greek μεταφορά (metaphorá), “transfer”,[1] from μεταφέρω (metaphero), “to
carry over”, “to transfer”,[2] itself a compound of μετά (meta), “between”[3] + φέρω (pherō), “to bear”, “to carry”.

BALLAST

1
: a heavy substance placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or
the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine)

2
: something that gives stability (as in character or conduct)

3
: gravel or broken stone laid in a railroad bed or used in making concrete

4
: a device used to provide the starting voltage or to stabilize the current in a circuit (as of a fluorescent
lamp)

DEVOUR

transitive verb

1
: to eat up greedily or ravenously

2
: to use up or destroy as if by eating <we are devouring the world's resources>

 FINITE

1
a : having definite or definable limits <a finite number of possibilities>b : having a limited nature or
existence <finite beings>

2
: completely determinable in theory or in fact by counting, measurement, or thought <the finite velocity of
light>

3
a : less than an arbitrary positive integer and greater than the negative of that integer

 CREST
: something suggesting a crest especially in being an upper prominence, edge, or limit: as
a : PEAK; especially : the top line of a mountain or hill b : the ridge of a roofc : the top of a wave

3
a : a high point of an action or process and especially of one that is rhythmicb : CLIMAX, CULMINATION <at
the crest of his fame>