Quiz no.

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Mendez, Clazther John C.
ABM A

a) What kind of emotion/feeling do you sense in the first 3 stanzas of the poem? Was
there a change of feeling after? Where does the change happen?

When I was reading the first three stanzas of the poem, I felt sadness and fear. Sadness in a
way that the lines in the first three stanzas of the poem implied to us that whatever thing or
action you can offer for the person you love might be deemed useless and worthless, if that
person we are discussing about, already gave up on life and does not believe any more in the
thing we called love. I also felt fear in a way that this type of situation can also happen to us,
for that is the reality in our world; when one wishes to love, one should also be ready to suffer.
Yet, in the latter part of the 3rd stanza, starting from the ngunit wag kang mag-alala the
flow of feelings suddenly changed.

b) What new emotion/feeling is the speaker now expressing to the addressee? Why does
the speaker have a change of heart?

The sadness and fear from the first three stanzas were slowly converted to joy and hope,
two emotions/feelings that the speaker wants to newly express in the poem. She wants us to
realize that despite all hardships we experienced in our love life, there is still that glimmer of
hope that we can change something, that we can still return back to the old times and once
again experience the happiness and joy of love. For love is truly meant for us, and just like how
she ended the poem, love is our proven cure for our loneliness. So, she insists that we should
love. For true and joyful love is not just a dream, because if a person is truly committed in
fulfilling his love, whatever circumstances or setbacks that love will have for him, he will still
push through with it. For, the true worth of loving someone is when we can finally feel the
happiness bursting out of that love we have worked for. And that is what pushed the speaker to
have a change of heart; for love is not impossible with patience and dedication.