Angelika R.

Sericon
BSEd-Math 3
The Nature of a City
(ANALYSIS)

The Nature of a City written by our very own prominent Cebuano writer, Lawrence
Lacambra Ypil, that it describes people living in socialization, globalization,
modernization, and industrialization era and this happens in a blink of an eye. In the first
stanza, City is rapidly changing and everything seems fast-paced. Every member of the
society contributes to the business of a city. The exhausting daily routine of any one
living in the city was also mentioned and how individual exerts effort to adjust to look for
better opportunities with primary purpose of fitting in this society full of criteria. People
in the city is essential who they are the life and blood of a city.

Moreover, for the second stanza, the afternoon being invention of the passerby who
believing it was important to get food from the market at midday, too late, navigated the
streets that were becoming less river, less stream. While the highway moved and moved
in the mind even as the highways were not made yet. Depending on whether one was
going against the current, meaning going back to the city because one had left the key to
a cabinet that one had been planning to open for a very long time. As the poem goes, it
was evident to describe a city by its nature. As it states that the wealth of the city
depends on the population of people moving its ways towards the center by morning
and away by the night. However, outside that civilization compels with the reality that
those working people had lived in riverside and even stayed at squaters. It is an absolute
irony for an industrialized country to see that those who made them wealthy lived at its
survival.