ORIGAMI

ORIGAMI
By: Marjorie Evasco

This world unfolds, gathers up wind

To speed the crane’s flight
North of my sun to you.
I am shaping this poem
Out of paper, folding
Distances between our seasons.
This poem is a crane.
When its wings unfold,
The paper will be pure and empty.

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Marjorie Evasco
-An award-winning Filipino poet.
-Born in Maribojoc, Bohol on September
21, 1953.
-writes in two languages: English and
Cebuano-Visayan. Place your screenshot here

-One of the earliest filipina feminist

poets.
-A supporter of women’s rights,
especially of women writers.

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Why Evasco wrote this poem

“Herons, my father named them. They were perfect in flight, and as the child
I was, I must have associated beauty with motion. I must also have
associated magic with the way the hands can call forth things, and the way
names can fix in memory a moment of transient wonder. Many summers
hence, far from my family and away from the island of Bohol, I began to
learn the language of flight, dream and memory I now call poetry.” –
Evasco, 2009.

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ELEMENTS OF THE
POEM

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 Meter
Anapestic meter
Unstressed/Unstressed/stressed

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 RHYME SCHEME

There’s no Rhyme scheme of the poem.

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 THEME

Romance and Nature

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Figures of Speech

The figure of speech used in

the poem is metaphor, because
it is a mode of apprehension
and means of perceiving and
expressing something in
radically different way.

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 “
“This world unfolds, gathers up wind”

“North of my sun to you”

“Folding Distances between our seasons”

“The paper will be pure and empty”

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 Analysis of the Poem
The poet uses the image of an origami shaped in
such a manner that this poem is a crane a winged
symbol with the capacity to reach a faraway person
if only through a poem, to a distant lover.
 The poem’s first three lines manifest that persona misses the beloved, and that this
longing motivates him/her to conjure up a poem for the lover, evident in the
succeeding lines. They are on separate points of the world, experiencing different
seasons, and in the persona’s yearning for them to seem to be near each other,
he/she, in a way an origami practitioner does in order to make things happen out of
potent creativity, composes a poem to unite him/her and the addressee even if only
in thoughts. when the poem consummates its purpose of getting its message across,
as in an analogy when the paper bird finally discharges its mission of the persona’s
keeping in touch with the addressee.

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 The use of the word “Origami” for a title makes perfect sense
because what paper folding is to art, poem is to literature. Both art
and literature, specifically in their concrete forms taken into account
in this paper, origami and poetry, wield power in order to render
things possible; it is not a wild improbability that a poem, highly
imagined as a crane acting as a messenger of the persona to the
addressee, can send messages.

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