REPRESENTATION AND THE PHILIPPINE CANON – LESSON 2 (21ST CENTURY LITERATURE)

DRAMATIC SITUATION – is the combination of settings, characters, and action in a poem which is supposed
to engage the reader.
PERSONA – is the speaker or teller of the poem, rarely themselves
ALLEGORY – refers to the symbolic representations of truths or generalizations about human existence
CANON – refers to the collection of works determined by a society to have significant value and importance
PERSONIFICATION – is a figure of speech where a non-human object is given human qualities.
CANONICAL – belonging to a collection of works considered to be valuable to the Philippine society. This
collection of works, called Canon, is determined by various institutions seen as capable of deciding which
works carry value or not.
OPPRESSION - a theme that is common in Philippine Literature

JOSE RIZAL -> “Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo”

Hermenegildo -> Hibik ng Pilipinas sa isang espanyol
MARCELO H. DEL PILAR -> sagot ng espanya sa Hibik ng Pilipinas
AURELIO TOLENTINO -> Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas
JOZE CORAZON “BATUTE” DE JESUS -> Sa Dakong Silangan

NATIONAL ARTIST
Filipino citizens whoa regiven rank and title in recognition of their “significant contributions to the development
of Philippine Arts and letters”.

PRESIDENTS OF THE PHILIPPINES

“The National Artist” title is bestowed by this person in the field of music, dance, theatre, visual arts, literature,
film and broadcast arts, and architecture or allied arts.

THIRD WORLD GEOGRAPHY

A work by Cirilo F. Bautista about the Marcos government
IMAGERY AND ALLEGORY
*Third World Geography aimed at creating solid impression on the reader
PHILLIPINES
*What does the country pertain to third world geography?
FORMER PRES. FERDINAND MARCOS
*What does the man watcher over it pertain to?
BOLD INK AND SHARP COLORS
*Refers to our country’s own image which holds it down from rising
CIRILO BAUTISTA
Born in 1941, National Artist for Literature
AB LITERATURE DEGREE
_Cirilo Bautista graduated with this degree from University of Sto. Tomas (Magna Cum Laude) in 1968.
MA LITERATURE DEGREE
-Cirilo Bautista graduated with this degree (Magne Cum Laude) from St. Louis University in Baguio in 1965.
DOCTORS OF ARTS IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
-Cirilo Bautista graduated with this degree from De La Salle University in 1990.