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21st Century Literature From The Philippines And The World > Poetry: Gabu > Flashcards

Poetry: Gabu Flashcards

1
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Who is the author of the poem

A

Carlos A. Angeles

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State at least two pieces of information about Angeles

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Graduated from Rizal High in 1938
Various universities in Pre Med and Pre Law

-One semester in Ateneo De Manila
- two at Up in 1941(Member of the Up Writers Club)

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Genre of Gabu

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Philosophical (Existentialist) Lyric Poem

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Existentialist

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Personal emotion/feelings

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Persona

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(First person)

Probably someone on the beach at Gabu watching the rough sea, contemplating life.

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Life can be as restless as the sea,

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Temporal but desires permanence

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What is Gabu?

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A place in Ilocos Norte near the sea. Often where typhoons occur, places like these are affected.

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Explain the first stanza:

The battering restleness of the sea
Insists a tidal fury upon the beach
At Gabu, and its pure consistency
Havocs, the wasteland hard within its reach

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The sea is restless and can be destructive

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Battering

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Destructive

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Restleness

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Impermanent

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Sea

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Symbolizes life

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12
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Havocs

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Destroy

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13
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Give you ideas about the 2nd stanza

Brutal the daylong bashing of its heart
Against the seascape where, for miles around
Farther than sight itself, the rocks stones part
And drop into the elemental wound

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The turmoil of the sea is continuous and powerful

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Brutal bashing

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Symbolizes life chaos

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Elemental wound

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Depth of the sea

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Write your statement for the 3rd stanza:

The waste of centuries is grey and dead And neutral where the sea has beached it’s brine, where the spilt salt of its heart lies spread
Among the dark habiliments of time.

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Time bears the “spilt salt” (badluck) of life

17
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Waste of centuries

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Past

18
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Spilt salt

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Badluck

19
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Saltiness of the sea

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Describe its darkness/deadness

20
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4th stanza: what is your opinion

The vital splendor misses
For here at Gabu where the ageless tide recurs
All things forfeited are most loved and dear

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The brilliance necessary for life is not there because in life even the most important things are lost

21
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Vital splendor

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Brilliance, necessary of life

22
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Misses

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Isn’t there, absence

23
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All the things most loved and dear

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The most important things

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Last line : What can you say about it?

It is the sea that pursues a habit of shores.

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-Waves show that the sea is constantly moving, but always towards the shore

-Life is bounded by time, always moving, but we all desire a stable and eternal ending

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Forfeited

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Lost

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Pursues

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Constantly moving

27
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A habit of shores

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Always toward the shore

28
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Shores

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An after life: eternal life

29
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7 types of imagery:

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Visual imagery- nakikita
Auditory imagery- naririnig
Gustatory imagery- tema
Tactile imagery- nahahawakan
Olfactory imagery- naamoy
Kinesthetic imagery- gumagalaw
Organic imagery- internal emotions

21st Century Literature From The Philippines And The World (3 decks)

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