SOCIETY AND LITERATURE

(1st SEM A. Y. 2018-2019)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TOPICS PAGES

I. Understanding Poetry

A. Ang Pagiging Bakla ay Pagkabayubay rin sa Krus ng Kalbaryo (Rolando A. 1-2

Bernales)

B. Nalpa'y Ti Namnama (Leona Florentino; see Isagani Cruz's translation) 3-5

C. Chicago (Carl Sandburg) 6-8

D. Tonight I can Write the Saddest Lines (Pablo Neruda) 9-11

E. My Heart Leaps Up (William Wordsworth) 12

F. If There Be Sorrow (Mari Evans) 13-14

G. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (William Shakespeare) 15-16

H. 400-Meter Freestyle (Maxine Kumin) 17-20

II. Understanding Short Story

A. The Visitation of Gods (Gilda Cordero-Fernando) 21-33

B. The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe) 34-39

C. A Temporary Matter (Jhumpa Lahiri) 40-54

D. Stress Management (Glenn L. Diaz) 55-67

E. Young Goodman Brown (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 68-79

F. No Name Woman (Maxine Hong Kingston) 80-90

G. The Story of an Hour (Kate Chopin) 91-94

III. Novel

A. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) 95-129

B. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 130-140

C. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas) 141-181

D. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) 182-186

IV. Drama

A. Sepang Loca (Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio) 187-189

B. A Street Car Named Desire (Tennessee Williams) 190-198

C. Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand) 199-202

V. Essay

A. On Chastity (Modesto de Castro) 203

B. On Good Manners (Modesto de Castro, translated by Maria Kalaw Katigbak) 204

C. I Have a Dream (Martin Luther King) 205-209