ROMANTIC

SPIRIT
 The Romantic Spirit:
From Fernando M. Maramag to Jose Garcia Villa. The
beginning of poetry in English written by Filipino
authors like Fernando M. Maramag and Luis G. Dato
writing poems that represented our way of life.
However writers such as Jose Garcia Villa and Angela
Manalang-Gloriahave slowly claimed English language
as their own and began molding the language to fit their
needs. On 1912there is a poem called Moonlight on
Manila Bay by Maramag.
 The Formalist Strain: From Edith L. Tiempo to Cirilo F. BautistaIowa
Writing Program graduates like Edith and Edilberto Tiempo, pushed for
the use of this critical lensprioritizing organic unity, metaphor and
emotional restraint. Filipino poets has been more creative in the use of
english. There is an example by Carlos A. Angeles called “Gabu”It was a
late-twentieth century development in American poetry. Formalism' in
poetry refers to poetry written inverse, with meter and often with end
rhyme. ‘New formalist' is sometimes used to distinguish modern
formalistverse from traditional poetry.
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