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    The poem describes the yearly devastation caused by typhoons in a rural area. It depicts the typhoon's ferocious winds that tear roofs and topple walls, choke drains and canals, and leave crops helpless. Though the children shut their eyes in fear during the typhoon's final rumbling destruction of the land, they wake to find the sun has expelled the armies of the night.

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    The poem describes the yearly devastation caused by typhoons in a rural area. It depicts the typhoon's ferocious winds that tear roofs and topple walls, choke drains and canals, and leave crops helpless. Though the children shut their eyes in fear during the typhoon's final rumbling destruction of the land, they wake to find the sun has expelled the armies of the night.

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    Typhoons (An Excerpt) Rio Alma

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    Esther Edaniol
    The poem describes the yearly devastation caused by typhoons in a rural area. It depicts the typhoon's ferocious winds that tear roofs and topple walls, choke drains and canals, and leave crops helpless. Though the children shut their eyes in fear during the typhoon's final rumbling destruction of the land, they wake to find the sun has expelled the armies of the night.

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    Typhoons (An Excerpt)

    Rio Alma
    (translated by Marne Kilates)

    The typhoons ‘episodes of terror are yearly:


    Berserk wind and shattered glass
    Streaming from the mouths of a thousand serpents,
    Smoke of dark crystal billowing
    From beyond the ancient shoulders of the bristling land.
    The heavens crawl with crackling electricity
    And the verdicts of thunder are without forgiveness or pity.
    There were nights
    When we were children watching
    And listening for the keening
    And whiplash of wet, demented monsters:
    Turning wildly they tore every roof,
    They toppled and smashed every wall and post;
    The drains and canals choked,
    The distressed bamboo begged for mercy.
    We shut our eyes
    At the final rumbling rape
    Of our prostrate crops, the helpless land.
    Tightly we shut our eyes,
    Tightly, ever tightly…
    Only to wonder in the morning
    What power of sun expunged
    And expelled these armies of the night.
    PROCESSING QUESTIONS:
    1. What is the event that the author was talking about in his poem?

    2. Where do you think did the story happen? Ex. City or rural area, etc.

    3. Can you give some details of how strong the typhoon was based on the poem?

    4. What happens when the morning comes?

    5. Can this story happen in real life?

    6. What do you do when there is a typhoon?

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