LESSON IV:

SPANISH COLONIAL
LITERATUTE
SPANISH COLONIAL LITERATURE

During the Spanish colonial era, literary works by Filipino

poets and writers were not highly recognized by the
colonizers. It was until Jose Rizal wrote his novels and poems
that Filipino literature was noticed. Although Rizal wrote
mostly in Spanish and Filipino, his works have been
recognized by scholars around the world and hence, have
been translated into different languages. In select stanzas
from this last poem, also written in Spanish as “Mi Ultimo
Adios”.
SPANISH COLONIAL LITERATURE

Fernando Bagonbanta was one of the early

native versifiers of the seventeenth century
and was known as a ladino, the name given
to natives who mastered the Spanish
language. Ladino was also used to designate
those literary works which were actually
Spanish romances and poems.
 SONGS

Songs are short poems set to music or

meant to be sung. Folk songs are songs
that originate in traditional popular
culture or that written is such a style.
EXAMPLE OF FOLK SONGS AND EACH MESSAGE
LESSON IV:
POETIC DEVICES
Poets and song writers use
many poetic devices to
express their idea and images.