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Author:

Gloria Garchitorena Goloy, poet, short story writer and journalist, passed away on Dec. 28 at the age of
93.

A journalism graduate of the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, she was
associate editor of the premartial law Sunday Times Magazine and supplements editor of The Manila
Times. She later contributed articles to the magazines Express Sports Weekly, Sunburst, People (Times
Journal) and Mr. & Ms., as well as to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Analysis

The poem, “Bus Riders”, Gloria Gatchitorena-Goloy, is a symbolic poem written in free verse, the central
theme of hardship can be found in the poem’s use of imagery, language and connotation of every word
by which the meaning is implied. In her poem, these three fundamentals of writing smoothly work
together to create a piece that represents the exhaustion and depressing characteristic of commuting by
a public transportation like the bus.

These ruminants on the run, when they travel,

travel a mobile mental mileage metered

by depth and distance of their dreams…

On the first reading, the poem begins with the image of the commuters, when she describes them and
compare to an even-toed, hoofed mammals (ruminants) that are always on the run when they are about
to ride to this public transportation, the bus. She also stated an image where the mental state of the
commuters is based and measured by the depth and distance of their dreams, which means that for us,
the level of experience. It could be more stressful or less stressful; important or not to them of the
commuting via this public transportation.

In the next lines, it literally this would suggest or describes commuters inside the bus where:
…a stern silence isolates their brotherhood

from each to each even where a truant thigh

kneads against its sudden mate. (How well the guise is glared.)

Means that inside the bus you are about to experience the silence of the people got in. Because they
just to be quiet for the sake of others, perhaps they just want to avoid adding stress or annoyance
inside. And it states here also that the commuters don’t noticed or felt their contact to others. They just
ignore if they bump each other’s body.

Goloy also uses a variety of imagery to illustrate the state or atmosphere inside the bus.

The vehicle screams an overweight, less of flesh, more of mood

ferried burdensomely with heavy fettered

lives sitting out a fleeing trap by the windows of the mind.

First, she describes the bus an overweight, less of flesh, more of mood which means that inside the
vehicle people experienced a state where the exhaustion maybe stress lingers throughout the entire
bus. Just because of the people inside are like being chained to their feet and trap by this vehicle. This
imagery describes how hard it is to travel in this situation.
GIFT

Alfredo O. Cuenca, Jr. was born on April 2, 1937 in Tondo, Manila. He finished at Torres High and studied
comparative literature and journalism at the Far Eastern University, University of the East, and Silliman
University. He attended writing workshops in UP and UE. When his Selected Poems came out in 1961, he
had only a year to go at FEU.

His works have been collected into Selected Poems (1961), which won second prize in the 1970 Palanca,
Age of Barbarians (1965), Ways to Become Christ and Other Poems (1973), and Second Selected Poems
(1981).

The first stanza of the poems tells us about the concept of marriage. The gift that was referred to in the
poem is like a ring that sealed their love forever. But in the 4th stanza it seems like their love is gradually
fading. Their love went cold. Each day their will have weakened and this affects their faithfulness
adversely to one another. This causes the gift to slowly lose its brightness until a little of it is left as what
I understood on the 5th stanza. The only thing that holds its brightness or the force that keeps them
together is trust that will later on become rusty according to the poem.
P
ower abuse is an issue that most of us have experienced at
some time, whether we acknowledge it publicly or not.
Controversy and debate around this subject continues to
gain ground and interest, especially in the workplace.
Abusive people gain and maintain power over their victim
with controlling or coercive behavior, and proceed to
subject that person to psychological, physical, sexual or
financial abuse. As we have seen from the media coverage
of high-profile cases, abuse can go on for years, often
ignored, and worse encouraged by those who surround the
abuser. Inaction to stop abuse, is a form of abuse itself.
Often the channel to address the issue leads to the legal
department, but law firms can be a breeding ground for
bully protection. Those with money or positions of power
often have the greater access to lawyers. They can exhaust
the victim’s ability to afford legal support very quickly, and
they know it. The power abusers are often in a position to
control the legal outcomes.

As a result, these cases often go unreported, undetected and

unchallenged, because the victim feels that the threat of
action could be worse than the original form of abuse. This
creates a vicious cycle where the perpetrators feel that by
getting away with the crime, they are empowered to
continue their abusive behavior.
The thought of death