 He holds a Ph.D.
in English
He Who Sleeps on my Lap
By Ronald Baytan
My friend
who sleeps on my lap
loves someone else.
He says he is a man
and a man needs a woman
and I disagree.
We argue until he grows
tired of talking
and sleeps on my lap
on this chilly night.
And I sigh,
knowing he loves
someone else
but still sleeps
gently on my lap,
innocent, not knowing
that I am here
slaughtering
one wicked wish
that when he wakes up
I shall be his dream.
Analysis
1. Background of the author
 Ronald Baytan is an associate
professor in the Literature
Department and the director of
the Bienvenido N. Santos
Creative Writing Center at De
La Salle University.
Studies from the University of
the Philippines, Diliman.
 He teaches queer/gay/gender
studies, creative writing,
poetry, creative nonfiction, and
Philippine literature.
 He is the author of The Queen
Sings the Blues: Poems, 1992 -
2002(Anvil, 2007) and The
Queen Lives Alone: Personal
Essays(UP Press, 2012). He is
the editor of Lit Matters: A
Manual for Teaching
Philippine Literature(Anvil,
2014).
2. Subject matter
About a gay who has a hidden
feelings with his friend.
3. Theme
Hidden love to his friend
4. Poetic devices
Refrain
Green
Polysyndeton
Blue
Run on line
Lines
Alliteration
Red
Symbolism
Purple
 but she does not hear, she will not listen.
The Other Woman - Poem by Francisco
I call to her but she does not come.
Arcellana
The Lord is my shepherd but I want.
I have watched her in stillness,
how still and white and long.
I have followed her about with my eyes, Analysis
1. Background of the author
how silent and swift and strong.
When she is still, it is musical. Zacarias Eugene Francisco Quino

When she moves, it is a song. Arcellana (September 6, 1916 — August 1,

I have looked at her fearlessly, 2002) was a writer, poet, essayist, critic,

openly, and without shame: journalist, and teacher and one of the most

it is quite true that I desire you, important progenitors of Filipino short

it is quite true that lust is my name. stories in English. In 1990, he was

I know, I always know where she is, declared National Artist of the Philippines for

when she is around and about: Literature.

it is in my body like a shout. 2. Subject matter

Erotic Love
soft hair, white brow, eyes young 3. Theme

nose fine, sweet lips, sweet mouth, tongue Hidden love to his friend
proud chin, neck white, graceful, long 4. Poetic devices

downy nape, smooth, shoulders strong Polysyndeton

under the arms soft, arms long Red
sweet and exquisite, white and strong
Metaphor
wrist small and supple
hands neat, exquisite Blue
fingers - petals of the lotus Alliteration
breasts like apples
Purple
white body shining, sweet and long
hips broad and ample, wide and strong Symbolism

thighs like pillars, white and long Underlined

legs like cedars, firm and strong Simile
feet that are sweet
Green
toes like the rose
Transport Epitet
Yellow
I know her name, I have called to her
Bonsai
Edith Tiempo
All that I love
I fold over once
And once again
And keep in a box
Or a slit in a hollow post
Or in my shoe.
All that I love?
Why, yes, but for the moment-
And for all time, both.
Something that folds and keeps easy,
Son’s note or Dad’s one gaudy tie,
A roto picture of a queen,
A blue Indian shawl, even
A money bill.
It’s utter sublimation,
A feat, this heart’s control
Moment to moment
To scale all love down
To a cupped hand’s size
Till seashells are broken pieces
From God’s own bright teeth,
And life and love are real
Things you can run and
Breathless hand over
To the merest child.
Analysis
1. Background of the Author
 Edith L. Tiempo, poet, fictionist,
teacher and literary critic is one of
the finest Filipino writers in
English whose works are
characterized by a remarkable
fusion of style and substance, of
craftsmanship and insight. She
was born on 22 April 1919 in
Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.
 Her poems are intricate verbal
transfigurations of significant
experiences as revealed, in two of
her much anthologized pieces,
"The Little Marmoset" and
"Bonsai". As fictionist, Tiempo is
as morally profound. Her
language has been marked as
"descriptive but unburdened by
scrupulous detailing."
2. Subject matter
Love of a Mother
3. Theme
Handing moral values thru
generations
4. Poetic devices
Polysyndeton
Red
Metaphor
Blue
Paradox
Purple
Refrain
Green
To the Man I Married
Angela Manalang-Gloria
I
You are my earth and all the earth implies:
The gravity that ballasts me in space,
The air I breathe, the land that stills my cries
For food and shelter against devouring days.
You are the earth whose orbit marks my way
And sets my north and south, my east and
west,
You are the final, elemented clay
The driven heart must turn to for its rest.
If in your arms that hold me now so near
I lift my keening thoughts to Helicon
As trees long rooted to the earth uprear
Their quickening leaves and flowers to the
sun,
You who are earth, O never doubt that I
Need you no less because I need the sky!
II
I can not love you with a love
That outcompares the boundless sea,
For that were false, as no such love
And no such ocean can ever be.
But I can love you with a love
As finite as the wave that dies
And dying holds from crest to crest
The blue of everlasting skies.
Analysis
1. Background of the Author
 Lyric poet, pianist, and editor, had
her roots in Guagua, Pampanga,
but her ancestors went to Albay
and prospered. When she was
about eight years old, she became
fascinated with books, read
avidly, and in consequence her
eyesight was seriously impaired.
She loved music (played the piano
very well), nature and things
dainty and beautiful.
 She started her early schooling with
the Benedictine Sisters in Albay,
and in Manila continued under the
tutelage of the same religious order.
She then transferred to another
girls' school, Sta. Scholastica, and
graduated salutatorian in 1925. In
school she continued pursuing her
interest in music in hopes of
becoming a great pianist. After
graduation from high school she
proceeded to UP and started taking
pre-law subjects, at the same time
going into painting. C. V. Vicker, a
member of the UP faculty, noticed
her creative work and advised her
to change her program of study.
She shifted her course to the liberal
arts and graduated summa cum
laude with an A.B. in philosophy in
1929.
2. Subject matter
How much dhe love her husband
3. Theme
The world of the girl is dependent to
her husband
4. Poetic devices
Metaphor
You are my Earth
Allusion
Hellecon=Power
Simile
 As finite as the wave that dies Crest to crest
Refrain

The Secret Poem (Igloria, Luisa) Now, I am Christina.

I am told I can make lace
I have learned your speech, Fine enough to lay upon the altar Of a
cathedral in Europe.
Fair stranger; for you
But this is a place
I have oiled my hair
That I will never see.
And coiled it tight Into a braid as thick
And beautiful as the serpent
I cook for tourists at an inn;
In your story of Eden.
They praise my lemon pie
And my English, which they say
For you, I have covered
Is faultless. I smile
My breasts and hidden,
And look past the window,
Among the folds of my surrendered
Imagining father's and grandfather's cattle
Inheritance, the beads
Grazing by the smoke trees.
I have worn since girlhood.
But it is evening, and these Are ghosts.
In the night,
It is fifty years now
When I am alone at last,
Since the day my father
I lie uncorseted Upon the iron bed,
Took me to the school in Bua,
Composing my lost beads
A headman's terrified Peace-gift.
Over my chest, dreaming back
In the doorway,
Each flecked and opalescent
The teacher stood, her hair
Color, crooning the names,
The bleached color of corn,
Along with mine:
Watching with bird-eyes.
Binaay, Binaay
Analysis
1. Background of the Author

 A simple lass from Baguio and

then became an immigrant

2. Subject matter

Abut Change of identity

3. Theme
Trying to get the identity back
together
4. Poetic devices

Metaphor
The bleached color of corn,
Allusion
In your story of Eden.
Simile
And beautiful as the serpent
Symbolism
Watching with bird-eyes.
Ala-Ala ng Quiapo by Jamaica Jane Pascual
Type- Reflective essay
Bground- Won 2nd place of Carlos Palanka in 2009, studies Geology
Purpose- To forsake
To entertain
Structure- Cause and Effect
Unfamiliar words- Sala-Salabid, Pasikot-sikot, Bargain, Ilap, Utakan at barat
Lesson- Learn from the pass be disciplined.

Suson Susong Suson by Jane Mendoza

Type- Reflective essay
Bground- Interdisciplinary studies, Assistant instructor, legal consultant of DAR,
Author of Prinsesa ng Banyera
Purpose- To forsue
To entertain
To inform
Thesis Statement- Having a big boobs is not a hindrance to have a peaceful life.
Lesson- Love not because of appearance.

AngPagbabalik ng Prinsesa ng Banyera by Jane Mendoza

Type- Reflective essay
Bground- Interdisciplinary studies, Assistant instructor, legal consultant of DAR,
Author of Prinsesa ng Banyera
Purpose- To forsake
To inform
Thesis Statement- about what she learned in Manila.
Essay in the Philippines
 Writer shares thoughts and ideas
 A form of prose writings

Classification of an Essay
1. Formal
 Deals with serious and important topic/sxholarly topic
 Impersonal
 Objectives/ no emotion
 Ex. Philosophy
2. Informal
 Topics are personal
 Subjective
 Ex. Casual conversational

First essay in the Phil.

1. Social and Political

 Jose Rizal
 M.H. Del Pilar
 Graciano Lopez Jaena
 Apolinario Mabini
2. English essayist
 Jorge Bacobo (Political)
 Francisco Icasiano
 Salvador Lopez
 I.V. Mallari

Vicente Hilario and Eleseyo Querino- First Essay book published “thinking for
ourselves”
Short Story

Chronology- in order of time

Causal- Chronology with a bit of flashback

Associative- Can get events from the pas and future

Flashback- starts at the middle the back to the first.

Edgar Allan Poe- Father of short story

Degracias Rosario- Father of Phil. Short Story

Origin of short stories

1. Mythology
2. Alamat
3. Kwentong Bayan
4. Fable
5. Parable- New Testament
6. Kababalagan
a) Aswang
b) Kapre
c) Tikbalang
d) Nuno sa Punso
e) Manananggal
f) Engkantada/Diwata
g) Mangkukulam
h) Pugot
i) Tiyanak
j) Buringkantada- higanteng iisa ang mata na mahaba ang pangil
k) Ikugam Higanteng kumakain ng tao
l) Numpa- 1ft lumilipad tuwing kabilogan ng buwan.
m) Lampong- Uri ng duwende na nag-aanyong pusang puti,
nagbabantay ng hayop
n) Sagang- Duwende sa Surigao nagababantay ng mga mina ng ginto