Reyes, James Paulo

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Analysis of Linguistic Deviation of “Youth Speaks” by Amador T. Daguio

Linguistic change is a destroying sphere against the divider that bears

literature averages. It frees poets and written editors from the semantic form's

provisional chains of sane rules. More basically, semantic departure enables the

ruling to communicate a case entity that is inexplicable and that would not have

happened possible otherwise.

“Youth Speaks,” by Amador T. Daguio, is the substitute for the classical piece.

Basically “in the poem, the author talks about up-to-date minorities. Understanding

the times, he voices the moral beliefs of young public contemporary (Serrano &

Lapid, 1986:222).” Personally, the skill was a moving connection to the lyric by

which it conceived a lifted feeling in the breast. It is as if the sonnet wants you to

exercise your exemplary, accompanying courage and diligence, to give your

standards despite the majority of the patriarchs holding you back. More basically,

it is the right that the teens lack and on which Youth Speaks stands. The

pronounced classical handbook is plentiful accompanying several semantic

departures that create the ideal object of a rhetorical study. On that note, the

fundamental intention of Youth Speaks will be untangled through the allure of

graphological deviation and pertaining to syntax departure. The epithet, a

foregrounding rhetorical maneuver of the epic, will too be considered in this paper.

If necessary, this rhetorical analysis will hold to the definitions and concepts

determined by Leech (1969) and Khedkar (2013).

The poem "Youth Speaks " shows how the voices of the young are often lost in the

silence of society. It is a powerful reminder of the need for people to speak up and

listen simultaneously. I can compare this poem to one of the Filipino toxic traits

wherein younger ones are labeled as disrespectful if he/ she try to voice out their

opinions. It is considered rebellion when voicing our opinions towards an elder and

submission to patriarchs is an expectation. Reading this writing emphasizes to me

that our voices endure being appeared upon by adults who run our surroundings,

guide our steps, and set rules for correspondence and how these adults poison

our growth and society by thinking that they are doing things for our future. Dr.

Jose Rizal once said “ ang kabataan ang pag asa nang bayan” it means that the

youth are the hope of the nation’s future. Until then we deprived the youth to prove

how each generation differs from one. How the youth is indeed the future of the

nation. How we try to make difference by having it in our own unique ways. As a

part of this younger generation, I can definitely say that we are not just lost our

voices instead we also lost our identity to become the person we want to become

and to the nation that we vision to have because some are already polluted by this
hedonistic implication of their egoistic habitats that behind those personas, they

resemble are lonely children who are deprived to speak and express themselves.

I conclude that this poem speaks for the youth. It shows that at a young age we

also have the patriotism that the lawmakers, money lenders, and governors do.

We care for our nation as adults are doing because we are the ones who will suffer

from the choices of the older generation. That is why we need to listen to the youth

as we tried to listen to our favorite music. We also need to see the youth as a piece

of beautiful yet unique artwork as we are made differently and most importantly,

we must also understand the youth as how we tried to read and understand our

favorite books or poems. Change is indeed constant, however, the good things

that we will always be remembered as the world are constantly changing. Choices

also matter because every one of us is connected like dominos, and one person

affects the other. Therefore, youth must be heard because what the older

generation may do affects the present and of course the future of the youth.