21st Century Literature from the Philippines

Activity (Week 3 file#1)

1) What do you think are the importance of Ladinos in history

and Literature?

Answer: Ladino is an exonym invented during the colonial era to refer to Spanish
speakers who are not Peninsulars, Criollos or indigenous peoples. This development marked the
beginning of Indio literacy and thus spurred the creation of the first written literary native text
by the native. These writers, called ladinos because of their fluency in both Spanish and Tagalog
(Medina, pp. 55-56), published their work, mainly devotional poetry, in the first decade of the
17th century.

2) Why is it that in Komedya or Moro-Moro, the Christians always won against

the Muslims? How do you think the latter reacts to this?
Answer: The christian always wins because it's popolar. Christians always win over
muslims because they think that all Muslims are rebels who shouldn't be the same as Christians
who are still christian or the good and not the evil (Muslims then stand counter-terrorism in
moro-moros).

3) Name other personalities of the Pre-Colonial, Colonial, and Contemporary

Literature that are not mentioned earlier.

Answer: Ancestors. The Pre-Colonial People Is Our Ancestors
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Answer the following questions: (File #1)

1. How did you feel upon reading the poem? How do you think the
author feels while writing the poem?
Answer: For me, poetry has beauty when it enriches, simultaneously, my
intellectual and emotional awareness. It manages to do this primarily by using powerful
imagery to advance metaphorical language that offers much more than the images
themselves.

2. What do you think drives Andres Bonifacio to write the poem?

Answer: Proficiently written in the vernacular, Bonifacio’s literary works served
as a catalyst for the nationalist awakening through the Katipunan, spurring on the Filipino’s
political development and popularizing Tagalog poetry during the late 19th century.

3. Comment on the structure and style of the poem. Are they still being
applied in today’s way of poem writing? Why do you say so?
Answer: I don't know if it's still used as a structure and style of the poem this
season but there are also a handful of users.

4. Look for some words that are not familiar to you. Substitute them
with words that we use today.
Answer: 1. (limbag-print) 2. (talastasing pilit- tinalastas) 3. (nukal-
shine oh kintab) 4. (imbit- to catch or take something from) 5. (kumatha-
Gumawa, may akda, may gawa, lumikha)
5. Read the poem again and share how you feel now.
Answer: it was a very deep poem that I liked because I learned so many
words that were deeply used in the past. there are so many profound words there in that poem
so interesting he