Week 3 Activity American and Japanese Era

Instruction:
I. Given the chance to interview Jose Garcia Villa, what would you tell or ask him? Read a
brief background about him and write your questions or message to him below:

José Garcia Villa (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was

a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was

awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, as

well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken.

He is known to have introduced the "reversed consonance rhyme

scheme” in writing poetry, as well as the extensive use of punctuation

marks—especially commas, which made him known as the Comma Poet.

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II. Read and analyze the poem written by Jose Garcia Villa during the Japanese era:

When the world shall come to its end

On the world's last Love I'll stand.
O God will try to push me down but I
With all my force will push Him back.

He shall not be able to put out Love at all.

O I'll guard it, guard it, guard it!
And the world cannot die with Love glowing, burning,
O the world cannot die out at all.

Doomsday will be shattered, shattered!

Shattered by my standing there:
God will see whom He is contending with
And, O, He'll revolve the world again.
 Jose Garcia Villa
(Published in “Have Come Am Here,” 1942)

Write your analysis about the poem. What do you think is the theme and message of the poem?

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III. Haiku was the usual and common form of poetry that emerged during the Japanese period. Be
creative and construct your own Haiku, make sure to follow the five-seven-five pattern.

A haiku is comprised of three lines and a total of 17 syllables broken up into a five-seven-five pattern as
follows:

 five syllables on the first line

 seven syllables on the second line
 five syllables on the third line

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IV. Search about the following Palanca Awardees for Literature and National Artist Awardees.
List some of their contribution in the Philippine Literature.

Palanca Awardees Information Contribution

1. Jose Garcia Villa
José García Villa (August 5,
1908 – February 7, 1997) was a
Filipino poet, literary critic, short
story writer, and painter. He was
awarded the National Artist of
the Philippines title for literature
In 1973, Villa received the
National Artist of the Philippines
for Literature award, among
other honors. His poetry and
work questioning conventional
poetic form continue to have an
 in 1973, as well as the
Guggenheim Fellowship in
creative writing by Conrad
Aiken.
2. Nick Joaquin Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin
shortly known as Nick Joaquin,
was born on the 4th of May in
the year 1917. During his time,
he was a known. Journalist and a
creative writer. He writes novels
and short stories through the pen
name Quijano de Manila. His
wife is Salome Marquez Joaquin.
He has received an awards of
Ramon Magsaysay Award for
Journalism, Ramon Magsaysay
Award for Literature, and
Ramon Magsaysay Award for
Creative Communication Arts
and many more!
3. Bienvenido Santos Bienvenido N. Santos was a
Filipino-American fiction, poetry
and nonfiction writer. He was
born and raised in Tondo,
Manila. His family roots are
originally from Lubao,
Pampanga, Philippines. He lived
in the United States for many
years where he is widely credited
as a pioneering Asian-American
writer
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impact on contemporary poetry,
both for poets and other Asian
American writers.
He was well known as a historian
of the brief Golden Age of Spain
in the Philippines, as a writer of
short stories suffused with folk
Roman Catholicism, as a
playwright, and as a novelist.
Joaquin wrote his works in
English. The novel The Woman
Who Had Two Navels (1961)
examines his country's various
heritages.
Lumbera is known for his
nationalist writing and for his
leading role in the Filipinization
movement in Philippine
literature in the 1960s, which
resulted in his being one of the
many writers and academics
jailed during Ferdinand Marcos'
Martial Law regime.