Laughter - Maningning Miclat

Laughter by Maningning Miclat shows a lot of irony. Her poem's mood or tone is bitterness, she was left behind by her lover so she wanted her readers will feel the same way. She also wanted the people to feel her laughter in a way to hide her feelings. The irony of the poem. I think the scenario in the poem is maningning with her lover is on a fight and having a misunderstanding. Her laughter is an irony of her tears when her lover left her.

Tanaga

Purple clouds stretch and shelter
As I live on my shadow
My sunshine sets forever
with an island to borrow.

Agents of Socialization - (NSTP011)

This picture shows a family, because for me my family influenced me of what i am now. My family are the ones who taught me first how to socialize with others. My family contribute a lot to mold my attitude and beliefs.They are the most effective agent of socialization.

Servant girl by ESTRELLA ALFON

Servant Girl by Estrella Alfon's story is about a servant whose name is ROSA , a healthy, down to earth girl that is very conscious on her physical attractions between her opposite.
First, in the story the servant Rosa is always beaten by her mistress. When Rosa met her cuchero, whom she called Angel, due to the fact that he met that guy without knowing his name, so the girl named her as her angel. The story is about fantasy and longing for a knight and shining armor to save her from her mistress.

Nick Joaquin & Carlos Bulosan

Carlos Bulosan

"Filipino writers in the Philippines have a great task ahead of them, but also a great future. The field is wide open. They should rewrite everything written about the Philippines and the Filipino people from the materialist, dialectical point of view -- this being, the only WAY to understand and interpret everything Philippines." -- Carlos Bulosan

(SOURCE:mrzine.monthlyreview.org)


Carlos Bulosan was an uneducated Filipino who hopes to find a better life in America. But he met racism as soon as he arrived at Seattle. After many years of starvation and sickness he was undergo surgery due to his tuberculosis. He was confined at about 365 days and each day he he took advantage and read one book per day. He became a prolific writer and protective voice concerning the struggles Filipinos were forced to live in.

(SOURCE:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Bulosan)

Nick Joaquin

"the only Filipino writer with a real imagination--that imagination of power and depth and great metaphysical seeing--and which knows how to express itself in great language, who writes poetry, and who reveals behind his writings a genuine first-rate mind." --J.C. Villa

He is knowned as the best postwar author in our country. In his short story "The Summer Solstice" he refined the culture in our country and in that short story the main character wants to be adored not loved and respected anymore.

(SOURCE:pinoylit.webmanila.com/filipinowriters/njoaquin.htm)

(SOURCE:http://fil.wikipilipinas.org/images/thumb/c/c2/Nickjoaquin.jpg/150px-Nickjoaquin.jpg)

hum014 LITERATURE: What it is? Why is it important?

Literature is an eye opener or a mind opener that sees everything and change the way of your understanding of something like poems, stories, novels, etc. . It help's us widen our imagination and realize what the true meaning is.