Analysis on Seklusyon

Base in what I have seen and in what I understand on the film, the
was extraordinary that encompasses two elements – religion and war.
Seclusion means a state of being private and away from other people.
The film was set on a post-WWII Philippine period. It starts with a
deacon named Miguel. He is seen confessing his sins with a priest.
Just before he finishes the confession, the priest asked him whether he
still has something more to confess. It seems that he’s keeping some
secret to himself. And yes, he keeps an embarrassing secret that we
will learn later on when he’s on the secluded house already. I thought
that the seklusyon is like the Call of Moses or the Flight of Elijah to
Horeb where they were lead to the wilderness and there encounter an
angel. But instead of encountering God’s messenger, Miguel and the
rest would encounter another kind of “angel”. I almost forgot to
mention that Miguel was told by his confessor that the seklusyon is
for him to be protected from demons since their attack is at its peak
when a deacon is due for ordination. Whether it is a spiritual or
physical attack, it was not mentioned how the demons would be able
to do that to Miguel. When Miguel arrives to the secluded house
where he would be staying for a week, he asked Sandoval the
caretaker why there’s a need to lock the gate. Miguel was told that it’s
not to prevent outsiders to enter but rather to prevent the deacons
inside from escaping the house. Recalling this dialogue, it made me
think that sin is also a “seclusion”. Sin doesn’t only “separate” one
from God, himself, and from others; it too “secludes”. Miguel is later
joined by other deacons who like him is undergoing the seclusion.

My Question:
Who really is Anghela (Sta. Ana)
Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” represents the death of Annabel Lee.
The poem describes the underlying love the speaker has for Annabel Lee,
which began many years ago in an unnamed “kingdom by the sea.” In his
poem, Poe makes use of a lot of poetic devices to enhance the reader’s
understanding of his deep affection for his beloved Annabel Lee, thus making it
the best poem in the world.

In this poem, the rhyming structure plays a big role. Poe’s main purpose for
using rhythm/rhyme is to introduce a new method of expressing the speaker’s
grief. The name “Annabel Lee” is an important part of the rhyming scheme
throughout the poem. Poe further enhances the rhythm of the poem with
alliteration in “[b]ut we loved with a love that was more than love” (Poe),
which emphasizes to the reader, the strong relationship between the two
lovers. There is a rhyming link in “chilling” and “killing” (lines 25 and 26) which
exaggerates the horror of Annabel Lee’s death. The poem’s rhyme scheme
begins with an ababcb pattern but as the poem moves along, it gets more
complicated, ending with the pattern lbmbnnbb in the last stanza. As the lines
increase in length and number in the last stanza, its dramatic pitch also
intensifies. His grievance for Annabel Lee also escalates, thus depicting Poe’s
unconditional love for her. The final stanza has an internal rhyming scheme,
which mimics the rhythm of the waves ultimately serving as Annabel Lee’s
sepulchre, and the speaker’s mental condition. The rhythm of the poem is
mostly written in iambic and anapestic feet, alternating between tetrameter
and trimeter. However, the word “chilling” in lines fifteen and twenty-five is
used to disturb the rhythm and startle the reader by highlighting the death of
the speaker’s loved one. Thus, Edgar Allan Poe’s use of rhythm is very
important in understanding the essence of the speaker’s love for Annabel Lee.
 Analysis of Annabel lee

Summary:
Long ago, "in a kingdom by the sea," lived Annabel Lee, who loved the narrator. Both she
and the narrator were children but knew love more powerful than that of the angels, who
envied them. A wind chilled and killed Annabel, but their love was too strong to be defeated
by angels or demons. The narrator is reminded of Annabel Lee by everything, including the
moon and the stars, and at night, he lies by her tomb by the sea.

Analysis:
The poem's setting has several Gothic elements, as the kingdom by the sea is lonely and in an
undefined but mysterious location. Poe does not describe the setting with any specificity, and
he weaves a hazy, romantic atmosphere around the kingdom until he ends by offering the
stark and horrific image of a "sepulchre there by the sea." The location by the sea recalls the
city of "The City in the Sea," which is also located by the sea and which is conceptually
connected to death and decay. At the same time, the nostalgic tone and the Gothic
background serve to inculcate the image of a love that outlasts all opposition, from the
spiritual jealousy of the angels to the physical barrier of death. Although Annabel Lee has
died, the narrator can still see her "bright eyes," an image of her soul and of the spark of life
that gives a promise of a future meeting between the two lovers.
As in the case of a number of Poe's male protagonists who mourn the premature death of
beloved women, the love of narrator of "Annabel Lee" goes beyond simple adoration to a
more bizarre attachment. Whereas Annabel Lee seems to have loved him in a
straightforward, if nonsexual, manner, the protagonist has mentally deified her. He blames
everyone but himself for her death, pointing at the conspiracy of angels with nature and at the
show of paternalism inherent in her "highborn kinsmen" who "came and bore her away," and
he remains dependent upon her memory. While the narrator of the poem "Ulalume" suffers
from an unconscious need to grieve and to return to Ulalume's grave, the narrator of
"Annabel Lee" chooses ironically to lie down and sleep next to a woman who is herself lying
down by the sea.
The name "Annabel Lee" continues the pattern of a number of Poe's names for his dead
women in that it contains the lulling but melancholy "L" sound. Furthermore, "Annabel Lee"
has a peaceful, musical rhythm which reflects the overall musicality of the poem, which
makes heavy use of the refrain phrases "in this kingdom by the sea" and "of the beautiful
Annabel Lee," as well as of the repetition of other words. In particular, although the poem's
stanzas have a somewhat irregular length and structure, the rhyme scheme continually
emphasizes the three words "me," "Lee," and "sea," enforcing the linked nature of these
concepts within the poem while giving the poem a song-like sound.

Elijah Khey A. Relativo

Gr. 9 – St. Luke
Sir Patrick Ventura