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TEARS

Would you come home if I cried
Black colored tears with great pain?
Or stay there, until it dried
And left me hanging again

Analysis on Maningning Miclat's Laughter

Laughter

He left me
when he could
no longer stand the laughter

that I gave him
while he begged me not
to keep memories

alive in poems
to hurt myself
and make those
who read

sad. I laughed
when he shared
his life with me
while holding him

to make it easier
and maybe
less painful
to live on.

Laugh! I told
him, but
could not get
his attention.

Laugh! I asked
him, but
he left in
anger.

And left
before he understood
the courage
that held my laughter.

I love the poem. Although it's not about happiness. Even if we see the words laugh and laughter, it contradicts Maningning Miclat's feelings.The irony of the word laughter means her sadness and sorrow. I think her only way to forget her sorrows is laughter. Because in the poem I laughed when he shared his life with me while holding him to make it easier and maybe less painful to live on.I think her laughter here is the man. But since the man don't understand and left her, she really is sorrowful.

Reaction on Estrella Alfon's Servant Girl

__________I think Estrella Alfon's Sevant Girl is ok. I don't see it very interesting. The protagonist here is the servant named Rosa. She's living in the house of her mistress. The mistress here is very moody, because it was said that if she's in a good mood she won't mind Rosa even if she's singing. But if not in the good mood she would scold Rosa. I don't like Sancho in the story. He is not a gentleman. I find the cochero mysterious at first. I think Rosa is in love with the cochero named Pedro. At the first part of the story, we can see Rosa here is very patient. Even if her mistress is always scolding her she still serves there. But in the middle of the story, we can see that she can't take the things her misterss is doing to her. She even attempted to leave the house and never come back. But everything changed when she saw the cochero again, and decided not to leave the house.


__________I think the lesson here is every person has their own limit. But every circumstances in our lives depends on our decisions.

Francis Macansantos

English, Literature, Philippine and Comparative Literature are the subjects that he is teaching for being a professor at MSU, SU and UP Baguio.He also taught Literature at Graduate school of Baguio Colleges Foundation (University of Cordilleras). G. Macansantos is a panelist in Dumaguete Writers Workshop where in he became a fellow on year 1972.He also became Local Fellow for Poetry at UP ICW at year 1999. He is a proud member of PLAC. His poems are consecutively getting awards at Palanca Literary Awards.

Because of his epic Womb of Water, Breasts of Earth, he won the Writers Prize from NCCA. His poems can be read in anthologies like A Habit of Shores, Kamao and Versus. His poems were also featured as a personal and critical essay at Flippin’ Filipinos published in U.S.,at Bulawan of NCCA and in most of the Philippine magazines.

(Source: Panitikan.com.ph: Your Portal to Philippine Literature. 2005. Web. 22 June 2009. <http://panitikan.com.ph/authors/m/fmacansantos.htm>.)

ESTRELLA ALFON

Estrella Alfon is a well-known storywriter, playwright and journalist; and though a Cebuana, she wrote almost exclusively in English. She became a member of the U. P. Writers Club and was given the privileged post of National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U. P. Creative Writing Center. Her first story, Grey Confetti, was published in graphic in 1935. She was the only female member of the Veronicans, an avant garde group of writers in the 1930s led by Francisco Arcellana and H.R. Ocampo, she was also regarded as their muse.

She is also reportedly the most prolific Filipina writer prior to World War II. She was a regular contributor to Manila-based national magazines; she had several stories cited in Jose Garcia Villa’s annual honor rolls. She also served on the Philippine Board of Tourism in the 1970s. A collection of her early short stories, “Dear Esmeralda,” (1940) won Honorable Mention in the Commonwealth Literary Award. Four of her one-act plays won all the prizes in the Arena Theater Play Writing Contest: (1961-1962) “Losers Keepers” (first prize), “Strangers” (second prize), “Rice” (third prize), and “Beggar” (fourth prize). Won top prize in the Palanca Contest for “With Patches of Many Hues.”Second place Palanca Award for her short story, "The White Dress"(1974). National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U.P. Creative Writing Center at 1979.

Palanca Awards:

Forever Witches, One-act Play (Third place, 1960), With Patches of Many Hues, One-act Play (First place, 1962), Tubig, One-act Play (Second place, 1963), The Knitting Straw, One-act Play, (Third place, 1968), The White Dress, Short Story (Second place, 1974)

(: Panitikan.com.ph: Your Portal to Philippine Literature. 2005. Web. 22 June 2009. <http://panitikan.com.ph/authors/a/estrellaalfon.html>.)

HUM014 What is Literature and its Importance?

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Literature is like - ' A Gold'

- it is malleable and ductile
- very dense
- highly sought
- tradionally considered ' Attractive'
- rich in content
- precious
- high value (valuable)
- simple and ordinary yet beautiful and priceless
- long lasting and unaffected by the passage of time
- stable and constant
- pure
- considered 'The Most Desirable'
- symbolic
(symbol of PURITY,VALUE,ROYALTY,WEALTH,PRESTIGE)