Quidilig, Carmella Mae M.

March 20, 2017

BSChE 3 1:00-2:00 MWF

Amador T. Daguio (1912-1966)

A poet, novelist and teacher during the pre-war. He was best known for his fictions and poems. He was born
January 8, 1912 in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, but grew up in Lubuagan, Mountain Province, where his father, an
officer in the Philippine Constabulary, was assigned.
Family Background

Mother: Magdalena Taguinod Daguio

Father: Sixto Daguio
Siblings: Saturnino Daguio
Gerardo Daguio
Pepe Daguio
Wife: Estela Fermin Daguio
Children: Danny Daguio
Jenny Rose Daguio
Francis Rey Daguio
Malinda Brigitte
Education
Elementary: Lubuagan Elementary School (Valedictorian)
Highschool: Rizal High School (in Pasig)
College: University of the Philippines
Stanford University
Romualdez Law School (Leyte)
Scholarships: Fullbright Scholar (Philippine Government Scholarship) at Stanford University
Writings
1. Wedding Dance Awiyao and Lumnay were husband and wife for seven years, but now the husband has to
marry another woman, Madulimay, because Lumnay was not able to give him a child. (In their culture in the
mountains during those times, having a child to follow after the husbands name was a must.)
2. Flaming Lyre The Flaming Lyre is a poem written by Amador Daguio when he first started writing poems.
Though this was written when he was still a student, it was published so many years later, following the advice
he got from his mentor, the Australian professor at UP, Tom Inglis Moore. Though a short poem of 5 stanzas,
The Flaming Lyre is very much applicable to the day by day life of every human being.
3. Man of Earth Amador Daguio's poem, "Man of Earth" compares the Filipino to the bamboo "tree". The
poem alludes to the legend of the first Filipinos and to the flexibility of the Filipino.
4. Hymn to Death After giving a very descriptive ode to death, he ends the stanza with the prophetic line,
Ill someday give my youth to die under a shining April sky. On his tomb at the Manila Memorial Park is
written this poem.