English

Third Quarter, Week 3

 Objectives:
Identify the divisions of literature

Describe each type of literature

Cite the influences of literature in the Filipino

life and society
What do
the
images
convey/
express?
Three Periods of Literature Before
1940
Pre-Spanish- The Legendary & Epic Age

Period of Spanish Occupation

Period of the American Period

A. Pre-Spanish- The Legendary & Epic Age
 Oral literature
Magical incantations myths
legends folktales
 People believed in the sun, moon

 Tree worship and spirits and other forms of worship

A. Pre-Spanish- The Legendary & Epic Age
 Known Filipino Epics
Biag ni Lam-Ang Ilocanos
Hudhud at Alim Ifugaos
Maragtas Panay
Bantugan Maranaw
Bidasari Adapted by the Muslims of Sulu
Indirapatra and Sulayman
From Maranaw
B. Period of Spanish Occupation
 Christianity was introduced to the people

 The literature produced was religious in nature

Pasyon ( passion- sufferings and passion of Christ)

Moro-moro ( conflict between the Christians & Moros)
Corrido & Awit ( forms of poetry)
Corrido is a long narrative in verse about a legendary hero
( Florante at Laura)
 C. Period of American Occupation

 English language was introduced ( mode of

communication/ instruction & writing)

 a new system of education began

 Literary writers produced works patterned from
American and European models
Period of American Occupation
 Filipinos became known as one of the best writers in Asia

Leon Comber
- former British publisher of the Heinemann Writing in
Asia Series
Period of American Occupation
 Filipinos became known as one of the best writers in Asia

Leon Comber
- former British publisher of the Heinemann Writing in
Asia Series