Philippine Lit

Midterm Group
Spanish Colonial Period
 Spanish occupied Philippines
in early 15th century. The First
Filipino alphabet is Alibata –
when Spanish colonized
Philippines they changed
alibatas into Roman alphabet.

Spanish banned the use of

Alibata because they believed
that it is a work of evil. So
Spanish fully introduced the
Spanish literary language using
many Spanish terms.
The European literature was
brought by the Spaniards
and are assimilated in
Filipino songs and
indigenous themes.

The early printing press in

the Philippine is run and
monopolized by the
Spaniards friars.
During Spanish colonization
Filipinos felt that they being
harassed by the Spaniards.
Then the Birth of the
Propaganda movement and
La Solidaridad.

Then Filipino fought and

introduced Tagalog to be
the language of revolution of
the nationalist movement.
 literature
LITERATURE
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under
Spanish Colonial Period
Spanish Colonial Period
 ORAL
LITERATURE

SONGS

RELIGIOUS
DRAMA

DRAMA
SONGS
A song is a composition
for voice or voices,
performed by singing. A
choral or vocal song
may be accompanied
by musical instruments,
or it may be
unaccompanied, as in the
case of a cappella songs.
The lyrics (words) of
songs are typically of
a poetic, rhyming nature,
though they may
be religious verses or
free prose.
SONGS
LERON LERON
SINTA
This song depicts
humbleness. It's the
story of a man who
tries to show what he
got to win the heart of
his beloved one.
SONGS
SARUMBANGGI
a Kundiman which
means “one night” or
“one evening” in Bicol. A
kundiman is a Filipino
love song
traditionally sung by a
man wooing the woman
of his dreams.
 RELIGIOUS DRAMA
The religious drama, as setting forth
events recorded in the Bible or moral
lessons to be drawn from religious
teaching, is distinctively medieval in
character, and in origin is closely
connected with the services of the
Church.
 RELIGIOUS DRAMA
Panunuluyan

(Tagalog for "asking for lodgings") is a

Philippine Christmas dramatic ritual
narrating the Holy Family's search for a
place to stay in Bethlehem for
Jesus Christ's birth through song.
DRAMA
Drama is the
specific mode of fiction represented
in performance. The enactment of
drama in theatre, performed
by actors on a stage before
an audience, presupposes
collaborative modes of
production and a collective form of
reception.
DRAMA
Bakit Babae ang Naghuhugas ng Pinggan

“Why Women Wash the Dishes” is a play

that depicts a betting game between couple
whom either one would not like to wash the
dishes. The play is filled with
humor and antiques.
 WRITTEN
LITERATURE

SHORT
STORIES

POETRY
POETRY

Poetry is an imaginative awareness of

experience expressed through
meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices
so as to evoke an emotional response. Poetry
has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but
this is by no means necessary. The very nature
of poetry as an authentic and individual mode
of expression makes it nearly impossible to
define.
POETRY

FLORANTE AT
LAURA

The story is about the love and

determination of the Duke Florante
and the Princess Laura of Albania
while being pursued by the usurper
Count Adolfo.
SHORT
STORIE
S
SHORT
STORIE
S
 RIZAL AND HIS
CONTEMPORARIES

JOSE
RIZAL

MARCELO
ANDRES DEL PILAR
BONIFACIO
SELECTED JOSE RIZAL
WORKS OF
He is considered one
of the national heroes of
the Philippines. Studying in
Europe, he was the most prominent
advocate for reform in the
Philippines during the Spanish
colonial era. He was wrongly
implicated as the leader of the
Katipunan Revolution, and that led
to his execution on December
30, 1896, now celebrated as Rizal
Day, a national holiday in the
country.
SELECTED
WORKS OF
MI ULTIMO
ADIOS

A poem written by Philippine national

hero Dr José Rizal on the eve of
his execution on 30 December 1896.
This poem was one of the last notes
he wrote before his death; another
that he had written was found in his
shoe but because the text was
illegible, its contents remains a
mystery.
SELECTED
WORKS OF
He was a celebrated figure in the
Philippine Revolution and a
leading propagandist for reforms
in the Philippines. Popularly
known as Plaridel, he was the
editor and co-publisher of La
Solidaridad
(The Solidarity).

MARCELO H.
DEL PILAR
SELECTED DASALAN AT
WORKS OF TOCSOHAN
This is a satire on the
friars' hypocrisy, licentiousness
and greed, which consists of
parodies of the Sign of the
Cross, the Act of Contrition, the
Lord's Prayer, the Hail Mary,
and the catechism. Rizal
considers this as a model of
classical prose and an excellent
MARCELO H. example of Tagalog humor, wit,
DEL PILAR and sarcasm.
He was a founder and later
Supremo of the Katipunan
movement which sought the
independence of the Philippines
from Spanish colonial rule and
started the
Philippine
Revolution.
This poem which
was first published in the
Diariong Tagalog. As the title
indicates, the theme is directed to
the Filipinos in order to arouse
their spirit of
nationalism
and
self-dependence.
AMERICAN COLONIAL PERIOD
 Philippine literary
production during the
American Period in the
Philippines was
spurred by two
significant
developments in
education and culture.
One is the introduction
of free public
instruction for all
children of school age
and two, the use of
English as medium of
instruction in all
Free public education
made knowledge and
information accessible
to a greater number
of Filipinos. Those who
availed of this
education through
college were able to
improve their social
status and joined a
good number of
educated masses who
became part of the
country’s middle
The use of English as
medium of instruction
introduced Filipinos to
Anglo-American modes
of thought, culture and
life ways that would
be embedded not only
in the literature
produced but also in
the psyche of the
country’s educated
class. It was this
educated class that
would be the
Philippine literature
in English, as a direct
result of American
colonization of the
country, could not
escape being imitative
of American models of
writing especially
during its period of
apprenticeship.
 LITERATURE
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AMERICAN COLONIAL PERIOD

 LITERATURE
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AMERICAN COLONIAL PERIOD

Tagalog Romantic Short

Beginning of
Novel Poetry Stories
Phil Lit
in English
A novel is a
TAGALOG
long prose narrativ
e NOVEL
that describes
fictional characters
and events in the
form of a
sequential
story, usually. A
Tagalog novel is a
novel written in, of
course, Tagalog.
Banaag at Sikat
is one of the first
literary novels written
TAGALOG
by Filipino author Lope
K. Santos in NOVEL
the Tagalog language in
1906. As a book that
was considered as the
"Bible of working class
Filipinos", the pages of
the novel revolves
around the life of
Delfin, his love for a
daughter of a rich
landlord, while Lope K.
Romantic Poetry
Romantic Poetry
 SHORT
STORIES
 SHORT
STORIES
 Philippine literature in
English By 1901, public
Beginning education was
of institutionalized in the
Philippines, with English
Philippine serving as the medium of
Literature instruction. That year,
around 600 educators in
in the S.S. Thomas to
English replace the soldiers who
had been serving as the
first teachers.
 "How My Brother Leon
Brought Home a Wife"
Beginning
A story about an occasion
of that would be a big day
Philippine in the life of any family,
Literature the day one of the sons
of the family brings hope
in the woman he intends to
English marry. The story is told
in the first person by
Leon's younger brother.