Subject: LIFE, WORKS AND WRITINGS OF RIZAL

Week: 5
DEADLINE: February 21, 2021 (Sunday) 5:00 PM

Introduction: Poetry analysis is examining the independent elements of a poem to

understand the literary work in its entirety. Analyzing poems line by line allows you to
break poems down in order to study their structure, form, language, metrical pattern, and
theme. TASK: Analyze the poem and answer the poetry analysis worksheet below.

TO MY FELLOW CHILDREN/YOUTH – by JOSE RIZAL (English version)

Whenever people of a country truly love

The language which by heav'n they were taught to use
That country also surely liberty pursue
As does the bird which soars to freer space above.

For language is the final judge and referee

Upon the people in the land where it holds sway;
In truth our human race resembles in this way
The other living beings born in liberty.

Whoever knows not how to love his native tongue

Is worse than any best or evil smelling fish.
To make our language richer ought to be our wish
The same as any mother loves to feed her young.

Tagalog and the Latin language are the same

And English and Castilian and the angels' tongue;
And God, whose watchful care o'er all is flung,
Has given us His blessing in the speech we claim,

Our mother tongue, like all the highest that we know

 Had alphabet and letters of its very own;
But these were lost -- by furious waves were overthrown
Like bancas in the stormy sea, long years ago.
NAME: Carl Edward B. Feliciano
POEM TITLE:
What does the title suggest the poem is about?
QUESTION
Paraphrase: What is the persona
saying? What is the literal meaning
of the poem? Does it seem
different from what the poet is
saying?
Connotation: What are the layers
of meaning in the poem? Diction,
figurative language, imagery,
rhyme, rhythm, stanza structure,
conventional forms, symbolism,
point of view.
Attitude: What is the tone of the
poem? What creates the tone?
Does the speaker have one
attitude and the poet has a
different one?
Shift: Does the persona seem to
change during the course of the
poem? Is there a change in tone?
What is the change? Where does it
occur? Look for transition words,
punctuation, stanza
division, changes in line
length, irony, changes in
rhyme or diction.
Title: Look at the title again – does
your reading of the poem change
your original analysis? How?
Do you notice any new
significance?
Theme: What is the theme of the
poem?
WORKSHEET IS BELOW:
RECORD YOUR ANALYSIS HERE
Rizal is saying that language is important. It is the
bridge and intermediary connecting people's
countries to each other.
The whole poem tells about the love for language and for
the love for his motherland. The language, the rhythm and
the structure of this poem are smooth that the readers will
easily understand in tagalog ii is really deep but you can
get the meaning after reading.
Rizal are encouraging the youth of his country that's why I
feel the eagerness in every words, that someday his poem
will inspire many Pilipino and it is happening right now.
He also showed love for his motherland by being proud of
its mother tongue.
Yes, I think the tone was changed when he was in the 3rd
stanza because in this stanza you will feel the real
message of his poem cause he uses words that will wake
up the readers and in this stanza there is angriness that
you will feel because he’s saying here that whoever dont
love his/her language are worst than any best or evil
smelling fish.
Yes, because he didn't say in her title what words he was
going to tell and focus instead he directly told the title of
his poem that it is for his fellow youth or for the rising
youth of his country.
The love, pride, and importance for our own language.
Prepared by:

(Sgd) JHUN F. FERNANDO, LPT

Noted by:

Coordinator of COLA and Dean of COGE