PHILIPPINE POETRY:

ITS FORM, LANGUAGE, AND

SPEECH
OBJECTIVES

 Identify representatives texts and authors from each

region
 Emphasize the region I come from through the process of
research and a performance
 Analyze the figures of speech and other literary
techniques and devices in the text.
 Identify common figures of speech used in Philippine
poetry
 Explain the relationship of the context with the text’s
meaning, how they enhance the text meaning and enrich
your understanding
WHAT IS POETRY?
 POETRY
 a type of literature based on the interplay of words and
rhythm
 is a style of writing that uses a formal organization and
that is often divided up into lines or stanzas, or it refers to
something beautiful
 literature that evokes a concentrated
imaginative awareness of experience or a specific
emotional response through language chosen and
arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.
3 MAIN KINDS OF POETRY
 Philippine Poetry
Not different from other counterparts around the
world
In the early 1900s, Filipino poetry celebrated
romanticism and several poems about love
flourished.
Became more Formalist – emphasis of the
property is more on the form and language that
the poet used, rather than the theme itself.
SOME ELEMENTS OF POETRY
 SENSES AND IMAGES
Used by writer to describe their
impressions of their topic or object
writing.
The writer carefully chosen and
phrased words to create an imagery
that the reader can see through his her
senses.
KINDS OF SENSE IMPRESSIONS IN
POETRY
VISUAL IMAGERY - What the writer wants you to see
OLFACTORY IMAGERY - What the writer wants you
to smell
GUSTATORY IMAGERY – What the writer wants you
to taste
TACTILE IMAGERY – what the writer wants you to feel
AUDITORY IMAGERY – What the writer wants you to
hear
 DICTION
The denotative and
connotative meaning of
the words in a sentence,
phrase, paragraphs , or
poems
 RHYME SCHEME
The way the author arranges words,
meters, lines and stanzas to create a
coherent sound when the poem is
read out loud.
May be formal or informal, depending
on the way the poem was written by
the poet.
 Idea of a Speaker
The speaker in the poem is the voice that talks to the
reader.
Sometimes, it refers to itself as “I” or “me” or,
sometimes in the third person (she, he, his, her).
You should also note that the speaker is not
necessarily the poet. The poet may have a different
persona in mind while writing the poem and may not
have taken the situations in the poem from his or her
life experiences.
 Structure
The arrangement of words and
lines, either together or apart.
Also refers to the way the
interdependent parts of it are
organized to form a whole poem.
 Word Order
The natural or unnatural
arrangement of words in a poem.
A poet may use a word
grammatically or not – often called
as poetic license – and may
invent words, too.
 CARLOS ANGELES
 Born on 25th of May 1921 in Tacloban, Leyte
 Finished his undergraduate degree in University of the
Philippines
 His work has been included in poetry anthologies in the
USA.
 His poetry collection , Stun of Jewels, won the Republic
Cultural Heritage Award in Literature back in 1964.
 Won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in poetry in
the same year
 Active member of Filipino –American press clubs in US,
where he currently resides
 His poem “GABU”, is said to be one of the most well-loved
Filipino poems written in English
 REFLECT UPON
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN
YOU FEEL RESTLESS
WITHIN?
IF YOU WERE THE “SEA” IN
THIS POEM, WHY DO YOU
KEEP PURSUING THE
 BEYOND WALLS 2.2 GO ONLINE
Research about Ilocos and its beaches, and try
to guess which one Carlos Angeles is talking
about in “Gabu”.Use the poem’s imagery as
clues to pinpoint the beach mentioned here.
Afterward, draw your visual imagery of GABU
as described in the poem and share your
output with the rest of the class.
RUBRICS FOR POEM DRAWING ASSESSMENT

Creativity/Originality (x 8 pts.) 0 1 2 3 4

Effort/Perseverance (x 7 pts.)
Craftsmanship/Skill (x 5 pts.)
Cooperation/Attitude (x 5
pts.)

Your score _____/100 = ____%

CLOSE READING OF FILIPINO
POETRY
 Organic Unity
 Established by the New Criticism school of thought.
 It says that all the interdependent parts of a literary selection
must add up to create one whole.
 In literature, all the parts and aspects of a literary selection
must contribute to one whole so crucially that if one part or
aspect went missing, the literary selection cannot be complete
or may not have the same meaning anymore.
 To understand the organic unity of a poem, you must use the
process of close reading.
WHAT IS CLOSE READING?
 CLOSE READING
A way for you to analyze
the poem by carefully
reading and rereading a
text until you have found
its interpretation.
WHEN YOU CLOSE READ A POEM,
WHAT MUST YOU LOOK FOR?
Context of the poem – when it
was written, the setting in which
it was written, the reason why it
was written
Interdependent elements
Persona
How do you communicate with
GOD? What are some things
that you see in your daily life
that you associate with your
faith and your relationship with
GOD?
BEYOND WALLS 2.4 APPLY IT IN
REAL LIFE
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