1.

Artistry
2. Intellectual value
3. Suggestiveness
4. Permanence
5. Universality
6. Spiritual Value
7. Style
GOOD STANDARDS OF LITERATURE
CANONICAL WORKS
Canonized Literary Texts
 “Stories are wild creatures. When you let them loose, who
knows what havoc they might wreak?”

“Conor! Speak the truth.”

“Many things that are true feel like a cheat.”

- The Monster, A Monster Calls

SOUNDS FAMILIAR?
A sanctioned or accepted
group or body of related
works

WHAT IS A CANON?
 matriarch of Filipino women poets writing in English
 August 23, 1907 in Guagua, Pampanga
 firstgeneration female students at the University of the
Philippines
 initially enrolled in law, as suggested by her father
 transferred to literature, advice of professor C.V.
Wickers

ANGELA MANALANG-GLORIA
It was a sacrilege, the neighbors cried,
The way she shattered every mullioned pane
To let a firebrand in. They tried in vain
To understand how one so carved from pride
And glassed in dream could have so flung aside
Her graven days, or why she dared profane
The bread and wine of life for some insane
Moment with him. The scandal never died.

SOLEDAD
ANGELA MANALANG-GLORIA
But no one guessed that loveliness would claim
Her soul’s cathedral burned by his desires
Or that he left her aureoled in flame…
And seeing nothing but her blackened spires,
The town condemned this girl who loved too well
And found her heaven in the depths of hell.

SOLEDAD
Create a timeline showing the
possible order of events in the
scandal that happened to
Soledad.

ON SOLEDAD – THINK. PAIR. SHARE.

Gender Inequality

THEMES
Hypocrisy in
religious institutions

THEMES
Society

THEMES
How is the persona related to the character?

How does she feel towards the character?

PERSONA
For you, who is Soledad
in our society?

Soledad = Solitude

Solitude – being alone because you

want to be
Everyone can be
Soledad.

What would you do

if you encounter
one?
“There is not always a good guy. Nor
is there always a bad one. Most
people are somewhere in between.”

SOLEDAD