RIA ELRICA P.

DAYAG

Subject Code: English 204

Subject Title: LITERATURE OF THE PHILIPPINES Semester: Second Semester
Term: FINALS EXAMINATION SY: 2019-2020
I. Make your own poem on your experience and learning on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Consider the elements in poetry
Out of Hands
Silly little laughs, hugging with your friends
Holding each others hand seems not to end
Together we eat, story telling if we must,
This I thought will never last

A sudden change had happened

People don't know what to do
I as a medical student had my head up high because I knew
I thought I know enough, I thought I I can
But things got out of my little hands

Corona virus had broken, killed a million lives

I panicked, I cried, I feared I won't survive
I focused on the outside that I forgot what's inside
I thought I'm surviving but I am dying inside

Got requirements to do, deadlines to meet, sighing

My hands automatically writing, without me learning
I thought I know enough, I thought I can,
But learnings got out of my little hands

I felt alone, as if everyone left me

It seems I'm the only one busy
Will this end? Can i still go outside?
But I still want to lose what's killing me inside
RIA ELRICA P. DAYAG

Subject Code: English 204

Subject Title: LITERATURE OF THE PHILIPPINES Semester: Second Semester
Term: FINALS EXAMINATION SY: 2019-2020

Sadness has succumb me realizing I'm not good enough

Dreams now seem to be really tough
I thought I know enough, I thought I can
But my dreams are shattering out of my hand

It's when I realize my priority before

My studies, my dreams I just need to explore
Though sadness is there, but happiness, too
It is always within us, we just need to explore it too

Things are hard now, harder than before

But I believe we'll have COVID and sadness free galore
I thought I know enough, I thought I can
That's why I am doing everything to achiever my dreams with my hand.
II. The theme of the story “Footnote to Youth” is about teenage pregnancy. Consider the
situation of our teenagers nowadays, have a reaction paper on that particular topic.
Teenage pregnancy has been one of the most alarming issues that the world is facing right
now. With the surging effects of social media that draws the innocence of the youth and exposes
it to different kind of sexual acts because of their access to the internet have been one of the
main reason of the fluctuating number of pregnancy cases in the Philippines.
This scenario has been experienced by Dodong and Teang enabling them to marry at such
a young age. It is just an eye-opening moment when their parents have been supportive of their
strength of facing the consequences of their actions instead of condemning of their deeds just
like how other parents are doing today.
Indeed, parent’s response to the experiences of their children really affect their children’s life
because I believe that parents have really big effect on the different milestone of their children.
Though it is not okay to have teenage pregnancy (if not responded well, parents have such a big
impact to the parents to be.
As it is, “Footnote to the Youth” has become an eye opener on its own for making us see the
reality of the world today. It is a reminder to al of us that we just need to be responsible of the
RIA ELRICA P. DAYAG

Subject Code: English 204

Subject Title: LITERATURE OF THE PHILIPPINES Semester: Second Semester
Term: FINALS EXAMINATION SY: 2019-2020
consequences of our mistake to be not on a rush on everything because we will appreciate things
if we wait for it.
III. Give the lesson/s you can attribute to the following poems/songs:
-Flowers of May
Flowers of May is all about reminiscing the dead sister of the persona in the poem which
is Victoria. It talks about the youthful days of the dead that has gone pass bye. This poem
tells us that there are things that may not be earthly today but there are also things that
will always remind them to us and will forever feel their presence even if they already
departed.
-The Bashful One
The Bashful One has been a tricky literature because a single comma can have a lot of
meaning but can give a striking life lesson. It teaches us that sometimes we need to let of
the things we thought we can’t to see things that we know we can because being shy
prevents us from doing things that we are capable of. We just need to let go of it to see
the full potential that we can.
-The Emperor’s New Sonnet
This literature opens our eyes to the situation of our society today. We are being
manipulated by other people because of the fear that we don’t belong. We are in fear of
talking back because we might be unable to uphold the standards that people expect us to
be. We just need to be brave enough to free us from the blinding standards of other
people.
-The Way My Ideas Think of Me
The way this poem gives the spiritual awakening to us. It reminds us that no matter we
think ideas that will definitely be hell because of the ideas that are sinful and no matter
how much we push God away from us, He is always there, helping us out of the cliffs and
mountains that we fell into.
-Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Tie a Yellow Ribbon teaches us of the life lesson of truly waiting to the person you love
and is accepting the truth of letting go of someone and not forcing them to stay with with
you. The persona of the poem was imprisoned for three years therefore he committed a
sin that made him end up in prison that is why he accepted the fact that maybe, the love
of his life is not waiting for him anymore as a consequences of his actions because he
knows that his love deserves someone better but the song thought us that even the most
flawed person deserves to be waited for and to be loved too.