LITERATURE REVIEWER

Pagkat Lalaki Ka Michael Coroza

Second Person POV
Speaker is female
Kapag lalaki ka matigas ang
kalooban mo.
Personification pagtanggal ng
mga mikrobyo sa isip, puso at
buong pagkatao.
Tatlong na advice na ibinigay ng
nagsasalita sa tula:
1. Matuto kang umiyak
2. Matuto kang magsisi
3. Matuto kang pumatay
Babel, Piramide, Koliseo, Ziggurat,
Templo, Imperyo
Personification maskuladong
pahina ng istorya
Babae ay parang basyong walang
silbi
Ang babae ay parang mother
nature
Ang halaga lang daw ng babae ay
sa kumot
Binura ang kasaysayan nila
Lalaki kang magbabago ng kulay
put an end to the cycle of violence
against women.

THE SPOUSE Luis Dato

Third Person POV
Rural setting
The poem is one of the earliest
literary attempts in English
The wife was crying (weeping)
The rose is an object left by her
husband.
They had an affair the night before
(wakens love from sleeping)
The Form behind the furrow is her
husband.
Her husband is her Mind, Motion,
Time, and Space.
There is a Sphinx beside the river
Nile River Cradle of Civilization
The secret answer is the mystery
of love.

TUNGKUNG LANGIT AND ALUSINA
PANAY A VISAYAN FOLKTALE
Adapted by F. Landa Jocano
Third Person POV
Characters are Tungkung Langit
and Alunsina
Tungkung Langit Pillar of the Sky
Alunsina The Unmarried One
Tungkung Langit Industrious,
Kind, Loving. His chief concern
was to impose order over the
whole confused set-up of things.
Regular cosmic movement.
Alunsina Lazy, Jealous, Selfish
Breeze spy of Alunsina
Ungodly of Alunsina to be jealous
Tungkung Langit, because of
anger, removed Alunsinas powers.
Necklace stars
Comb moon
Crown sun
Rain tears of tungkung langit
Myth of Creation

ANG BABAING NANGARAP NANG
GISING Virgilio Almario
POV Third Person
Rioalma anagram
Sandok na bali Mahirap
Planeta-t bitwin madaling araw
palang
Natukso sa lungson at bughaw na
layon.
Aksesorya imahe ng kahirapan
Pagpikit nang nabuksan ang pinto
takot, bangungot
Saliw ng byolin

BABAING NAMUMUHAY NANG MAG-ISA
Joi Barrios
First person POV
Siya ay:
1. Hiwalay sa asawa
2. Matandang dalaga
3. Kerida
4. Puta
Batik at pilat tanda ng kanyang
pag-iisa
Pagsusulit na di nakayanan
Failure
Pagkukulang feeling incomplete
Tanso ang pagkatao Fake
Gusto ng speaker na magkaroon ng
pantay na pagtrato ang babae sa
mga lalaki
Alisin ang double standard

BREAKING THROUGH Myrna Pena
Reyes
First person POV
Apostrophe
Speaker is the daughter
Addressee is the father
Parcel central imagery
Small box is a symbol
The speaker is the box
Tied tight and well, because the
box will go on a long journey
Snapping the knots into place
kind of upbringing
This undoing is what binds us
paradox

BRINGING THE DOLLS Merlie M.
Alunan
First Person POV
2 Dolls
One is missing an arm and a leg
The other is blind in one eye
No room for sentiment or memory
The daughter still brought the doll
They were in a boat turning
seaward
Clean white years symbolized
innocence.

THE GOD STEALER - Francisco Sionil
Jose

Third Person POV
Sam Christie 28 Years Old
Philip Latak 26 Years Old
They were in Baguio going to
Ifugao
Sam Christie is originally from
Boston.
White Label wine that they first
drunk
Philip is expecting rice wine
Sam said that Baguio was like New
England in the spring.
Grecian Urn, Siamese Mask,
Japanese Sword
Sam worked in the Agency because
he loves to travel
Philips grandfather was 80+ years
old.
It was past noon when they
reached the feral fringes of the
Ifugao country.
The trip reminded Sam of the
Alpine roads of Europe and those
of New England.
Chapel, School, Hospital, Residence
four red roofed buildings.
Warm Coca-cola beverage that
sadek gave Sam
Reverend Doone - San Franciscan
priest
Cataclysm what is needed to
regain ones soul





THE WEDDING DANCE Amador T.
Daguio

Awiyao Husband
Lumnay Wife
Madulimay New Wife
Kabunyan God
Awiyao had to re-marry because
he and Lumnay could not bear a
child. It was a tradition that a man
is not a man if he cannot bear a
child. They waited for seven
harvests.
Log houses, pine trees, kabunyan
They are not modern people
Sacrificed chicken and pigs for
Kabunyan to hear their prayers.
Hard, strong, and kind features of
Awiyao
Beads worth twenty fields. They
stand for the love Awiyao has for
Lumnay.

MAY DAY EVE Nick Joaquin
Boys arrived from Europe
At the beginning of the story, the
date was April 30, 1847. The end
was on May 01, 1890.
Author used a telescopic treatment
of time.
The important prop is the Gold-
framed MIRROR.
1847 no devils
1890 no witches
Candle important object to be
able to see her lover.
Anastasia chaperone, St
Anastasia born on Christmas Eve,
virgin and martyr.
Agueda different from the other
girls
When the story did a flash
forward, Dona Agueda was talking
to her daughter.
Devil has scar of sin, Papa has scar
of honor.
Devils moustache was black and
elegant, Papas were dirty and
graying.
The next returned to May 1.
Agueda danced the waltz but did
not do a polka.
Badoy Montiya was drunk. He
called Agueda her Serrana.
Agueda said that they have no
grace like the Parisiennes and no
fire like the Sevillians. They have
no salt- meaning that they are
bland.
When Don Badoy Montiya was old,
over sixty, he joined the
illustrados. He changed. This
makes him a round character.
Agueda did not, thus making her a
flat character.
Agueda had TB (consumptive)
Evil old moon evil new moon.
Badoy was crying because after all
those years, Agueda has not
forgiven him. She thinks of him as
a monster, a devil.

BONSAI Edith Tiempo
Japanese art form that used
natural materials and made it
artificial. Used copperwires to
control its growth. Miniaturized.
Dwarfed.
1
st
person POV
Keeps all that the speaker loves in
a box, hollow post, in shoe.
Sons note, dads one gaudy tie,
roto picture of a young queen, blue
Indian shawl, money bill
something that folds and keeps
easy. Shows how sentimental the
speaker is.
Till seashells are broken pieces
Memories.
PATALIM Cirilo Bautista
First person POV
Male ang sinta niyang mahal ay
nagpapasuso ng bunsong anak.
Speaker is poet.
Sa babae talak
Sa lalaki titig
They dont go to sleep in conflict.

LAJI 97
Whose Face Do I Behold
Muyin Para Ninu
Translated by Florentino Hornedo
First Person POV
By the Ivatans Batanes, Babuyan
Islands
About love
To consume transubstantiation.
Be drunk along with every cup of
water you drink Apostrophe
Death does not mean the death of
love.
THE CONVERSION
J. Neil Garcia

FIRST PERSON POV
Beginning: Flashback
Situational Irony The family that
loved him put him in a metal drum.
Laundry lay caked and smelly,
Dishes soiled with fat and swill,
cousins lost in masks of snot and
dust images that show dirtiness
of environment
Uncles were MUSCULAR
He hid in the corner his dead
mothers cabinet
Girl or Boy the question asked
by the father
He answered Girl at first but then
gave in to the pressure to bring
this diversion to its happy end
Stopped wearing mothers clothes,
holes on ears grew smaller
shows how he changed.
His father died w/in five years
The year after, he got his wife
pregnant.
They have four boys his proof of
masculinity. Another child is on
the way.
Water is still a problem and the
drum is still there, deep and rusty
shows that he was traumatized
by the experience.
My family that loves me for my
bitter breath ungrateful for his
family