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Phil Lit
(1941 – 1945)
CHAPTER 6
Historical Background
• Philippine literature in English came to a halt.
• Almost all newspapers in English were stopped by the
Japanese.
• It produced an advantageous effect on Filipino literature.
Filipino Poetry during the Japanese Period
• Common theme of most poems was:
• nationalism
• country
• love
• life in barrios
• faith
• religion, and
• arts.
Filipino Poetry during the Japanese Period
• Three types of poems:
• Haiku
• a poem of free verse, and made up of 17 syllables divided into three lines
• allegorical in meaning, is short, and covers a wide scope in meaning
• Tanaga
• is short but it had measure and rhyme
• each line has 17 syllables and also allegorical in meaning
• Karaniwang Anyo (Usual Form)
• the usual and common form of poetry
Filipino Poetry during the Japanese Period
HAIKU
By Gonzalo K. Flores
TUTUBI Dragonfly
(Dragonfly)
Hila mo’y tabak . . You’re pulling a saber
Ang bulaklak nanginig The flowers shivered
Sa paglapit mo. When you approached.
Filipino Poetry during the Japanese Period
HAIKUS
by Rodolfo S. Rosales
POETRY DEATH
Corporeal, Uneavaporeal Never, forever
blood, bold, a rusty hinge,
on the hand of time. a fiery fever to become.
Filipino Poetry during the Japanese Period
JUSTICE SOME POEMS
Flip a coin crown or king. Too much catsup, spice, sauce
Coin, neither crown nor king, hypocrisies:
“Not guilty!” hiding what is not there.
BEAUTY PROGRESS
A wind unseen, a sound unheard: You chill comrade dragonfly
a broken guitar . . . then please you
bones and skulls. put a tiger in your tongue.
LOVE
Pill in the evening
black coffee in the morning
and headaches at noon.
Filipino Poetry during the Japanese Period
TANAGA ni Ildefonso Santos
(Liwayway, Oktubre 10, 1943)
PALAY PALAY
• Journalists include Salvador P. Lopez, Leon Ma. Guerrero, Raul Manglapuz and
Carlos Bulosan.
• Nick Joaquin
• produced The Woman Who Looked Like Lazarus
Philippine Literature in English (1941 – 1945)
• Fred Ruiz Castro
• wrote a few poems
• Carlos Bulosan
• works include The Laughter of My Father (1944), The Voice of Bataan (1943), Six
Filipino Poets (1942)
• Alfredo Litiatco
• published With Harp and Sling
• Jose P. Laurel
• published Forces That Make A Nation Great
Philippine Literature in English (1941 – 1945)
• The Commonwealth Literary Awards gave prizes to meritorious
writers. Those who won were:
• Like the Molave – by Rafael Zulueta da Costa (Poetry)
• How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife – by Manuel E. Arguilla
(Short Story)
• Literature and Society – by Salvador P. Lopez (Essay)
• His Native Soil – by Juan Laya (Novel)
Philippine Literature in English (1941 – 1945)
• President Manuel L. Quezon
• His autobiography “The Good Fight “was published