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Prayer of a Student

Written by Tarrosa Subido. The poem tells about the transitional road of a student specifically in learning. The second phrase of the very first line of the poem speaks of the Lord that honors his power and his guidance. The first four lines of the poem express its simple imagery that also tells or is compared to that of student’s stage in learning marking the start as the student open her/his mind to reality.  In common terms we might associate it as elementary. Then after that it the fire starts to ignite as the student learns and feeds up his/her mind and reasoning.  Then the learning provides spaces of the question of why’s and how’s that enough reasoning cannot suffice and even start questioning of deeper how’s and why’s and associate angles that are pointed. The enough theories that were gathered become the student’s reality with hopes as the student learns more it’ll not shake him/her. As the poem ends with indefinite cause of it the student may remind himself/herself the very first line of the poem.  

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Isang Dipang Langit

The poem’s imagery speaks of a man inside a prison. It talks about the hopes and the lack of faith often what a prisoner would feel especially when he doesn’t have to be there since does not committed the crime. If I were to write a pitch about this the main idea would be injustice. There are certain measures that the defendant could’ve won the case himself however magic behind the courts may play their card well.

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Plighted Words

Better death than dishonor. With great privilege in contrasting affection for a father’s satisfaction to own promised hectares of land corrupts the offspring’s own happiness. This story entails about phases of love, sacrifices, honor and fear. The terrifying Japanese is spread throughout their province and that’s one reason.

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Tibag

Literally means to excavate. This ritual was brought by the Spaniards to remind the people about the search of St. Helena for the Cross on which Jesus died.  It is a dramatic performance for the purpose of manifesting devotion for the holy cross.

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The Usual Form

The usual and common form of poetry

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Claro M. Recto

The Filipino statesman, Claro M. Recto is the son of Don Claro Recto Sr. and Doña Micaela Mayo born on February 8, 1890 at Tiaong, Quezon. In thear 1905 he studied at Ateneo de Manila University obtaining the most outstanding scholastic grades and graduated in the 1909 with Bachelor of Arts, maxima cum laude. He took up law at the University of Santo Tomas and graduated in the year 1913 and took up the bar exam the same year. He also pursued his Maters of Laws in the same university. In the same year he also entered the government service and appointed secretary of Vincente Ilustre of the Philippine Commission. He also ran as the representative of the third district of Batangas under the party Democrata and become the minority floor leader and was reelected in the years 19222 and 1925.

He was selected to supervise the drafting of the Philippine Constitution and personally presented the commonwealth Constitution to President Roosevelt. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1935-36), appointed as Commissioner of Education, Health and Welfare (1942-43) and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (1943-44) were few of his service for the country. He was accused and charged for treason for his connection with the Japanese but he pleaded not guilty and along with his defense he had written two books the Three Years of Enemy Occupation and the Law of Belligerent Occupation. He was acquitted and was elected as Senator. In the year 1955, joining the liberal party as a guest candidate he won the sixth place, he also ran for presidency in 157 but he lost over Ramon Magsaysay. He was appointed Cultural Envoy with the Rank of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary on a cultural mission to Europe and Latin America on August 24, 1960. He suffered fatal heart attack in Rome on October 2, 1960 and died at San Camillo de Lellis Hospital. “It is terrible to die in a foreign country” as he said this words to his wife in his last breath. He died in a foreign country contrasting to that of his great love for his country.

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Graciano Lopez Jaena

Graciano Lopez Jaena -The son of Placido Lopez a general repairman and Maria Jacoba Jaena a seamstress.  He was born on December 18, 1856 at Jaro, Iloilo. His mother being religious believed that priesthood would be the best course Graciano will take so he was sent ot a seminary at Semenario de San Vicente Ferrer in Jaro. Aside from being a seminarian he aslo serve as a secretary of his uncle Claudio Lopez who was the honory voice consul of Portugal in Iloilo. His ambition to become a physician made him convinced his mother that is the better course. His application was denied in Unibersidad de Santo Tomas due to lack of the required Bachelor Arts degree, however he was directed to San Juan de Dios Hospital For apprenticeship. The lack of finances brought him back to Iloilo and practice medicine with the knowledge he got. With this he is constantly visiting the poor and began his knowledge for the injustices that is common to them. He made this as an inspiration to write the “Fray Botod” depicting a fat and lecherous priest. The friars knew that it was directed to them however they cannot justify that Graciano wrote it himself. When he attested that prisoners died in the hands of the Mayor in Pototan he got into trouble and receives several threats as he agitated for justice. So, he fled to Spain and become the leading literary and oratorical spokesperson for Filipino freedom.

Among the Filipino propagandist triumvirate Marcelo Del Pilar and Jose Rizal as historians dubbed them he was the first one to get there and Jaena was also dubbed as the Genesis of the Propaganda Movement. He pursued medical studies in the University of Valencia but did not finish the course. Instead, he moved in to the field of journalism. He was regarded to be faulty and lazy being indulge in the café of Barcelona but his eloquence in the Spanish language and talent in oration provided good sugarcoat to his not impressive qualities. His propagandist comrades would often describe that after Jaena would speak the crowd would applaud this literary politician as Rizal noted “his great love is politics and literature. I do not know for sure whether he loves politics in order to deliver speeches or he loves literature to be a politician.” Indeed, he is remembered for his literary contribution to the propaganda movement as he founded th La Solidaridad. When the publication office was moved to Madrid from Barcelona the editorship was handed to Marcelo Del Pilar. Unfortunately, Jaena died of tuberculosis on January 20, 1896. His death was followed by the death of Marcelo del Pilar on July 4 and Jose Rizal’s death on December 30 of the same year this marks and hence the end of the Filipino Propaganda Triumvirate.

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Kumintang

-          War song

-          Pair of words with  different meaning but has the same rhyme