AUTHOURS BACKGROUND

 José Garcia Villa/ Doveglion (pen name) was born in

Manila in Aug 5 1908. And died on February 7 1997.
He attended the University of the Philippines, but he was
suspended in 1929 after publishing a series of erotic
poems, titled “Man-Songs” in the Philippines Herald
Magazine. That same year, he won a short story contest
through the Philippines Free Press and used the prize
money to travel to the United States, where he studied at
the University of New Mexico.
 He Studied at Colombia University (1941-1942), The
University of New Mexico (1032), University of the
Philippines system and UP Integrated School – elementary
 His pen name is Doveglion which means  combination of the words “dove,” “eagle,” and “lion”
and was what he believed was his true persona
  He became the only Asian poet in a community that also consisted of E. E. Cummings, W. H.
Auden, and other modernist poets. In 1933 his Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and
Others (Charles Scribner’s Sons) became the first book of fiction by a Filipino author published
by a major United States-based press.
 He continued to publish in the Philippines, and his poetry collections Many Voices (Philippine
Book Guild) and Poems (The Philippine Writers’ League) appeared in 1939 and 1941,
respectively.
 In 1942 he published his first poetry collection in the United States, Have Come, Am
Here (Viking Press), which was a finalist for the 1943 Pulitzer Prize.
 In 1973 he was named a National Artist of the Philippines, and he also served as a cultural
advisor to the Philippine government. He died in New York City on February 7, 1997.
 Villa was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a
Philippines Heritage Award, a Poetry Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and a Shelley Memorial Award.
 https://poets.org/poet/jose-garcia-villa
CONTRIBUTION OF JOES GARCIA VILLA IN PHILIPPINE LITERATURE

 He introduced the reversed consonance rime scheme, including the comma poems that made full
use of the punctuation mark in an innovative, poetic way. The first of his poems “Have Come,
Am Here” received critical recognition when it appeared in New York in 1942
 He won the 1973 National Artist of the Philippines for literature. His work in both poetry and
challenging traditional poetic style continues to have an impact in modern poetry,
 https://ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/culture-profile/national-artists-of-the-philippines/jose-
garcia-villa/

FAMOUS WORK OF JOSE GARCIA VILLA

 The Anchored Angel, The Emperor's New Sonnet, and Footnote to Youth.
 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/237398/jose-garcia-villa/
 SETTINGS (the fence)

 Old house on the roadside, so brown were the nipa leaves that walled and roofed them that they
looked musty, gloomy
 The setting is reflective of the kind of characters and the situation they would be in. The nipa huts
look desolate and empty, reflective of how their occupants behave and feel for each other. They
have no neighbors and yet the need for each other seems remote and distant.
 https://www.slideshare.net/ilovemelo/the-fence-by-jose-garcia-villa
 https://www.coursehero.com/file/54102832/The-Fence-by-Jose-Garcia-Villa-Story-
Analysisdocx/