Abellada,Mhiamar L.

The opening line of the poem expresses Rizal's desire for us to cherish our native tongue and to
be thankful for it as a gift from the divine. The readers are made to feel sympathetic by the opening two
lines, which highlight their ardent love of language. Being bestowed with a nationality like other peoples
is a blessing. He tells us to cherish our language since it is a step toward freedom. It has the desire to fly
anywhere it wants to go and whatever it wants to do, as Rizal compared it to a bird that may freely soar
over the sky.
The next lyric argues that a country that values its God-given language also values freedom. A
Filipino who cherishes his native tongue would undoubtedly battle for it like a bird that "lumilipad nang
pagkataas-taas para sa mais malawak na liliparan," a person who keeps the signs of its liberty, as man
preserve his independence. Language serves as more than just a means of communication; it also serves
as a means of expressing one's self-awareness, social consciousness, and sense of self. There could not be
a true feeling of nationhood without a shared identity. True patriotism included the love of and usage of
one's home speech.
The guy who doesn't like his native speech is compared by Rizal to a rotten fish in the next
stanza. Similar to how a fish, which normally originates from water, smells if it leaves its natural habitat.
Like several of the Filipinos we saw, we could tell that when individuals travel to a different nation and
adopt the language and culture there, they often lose their own. They would be arrogant enough to loathe
and mock their own fellowmen since they created that lifestyle. Despite the fact that it is rather obvious,
they conceal and obscure their unique identity as Filipinos. By doing so, they will only make a fool of
themselves. Rizal also addressed all of us with the final lines of the third stanza, emphasizing the need of
cherishing and preserving our own language because it is a priceless asset of our own nation.
The final line suggests that the Filipino people, like other existing nations, have unique features
of which we may be immensely proud. These traits are such a part of who we are as Filipinos that they
cannot be erased, including the culture, blood that flows through our veins, and our status as Filipinos. All
linguistic varieties over the world are referred to as "angels' tongues." These sentences demonstrate how
our mother tongue shares the same value as all other languages. God has endowed us with the ability to
speak our original tongue, the final verse of the poem reminds us. Our native language must be valued
because it was created simple for us to speak, according to the subtext of this story.