The Torch

I'm a torch that needs Your fire

Fire that removes emptiness

In this world of weariness

Draw me closer to Your Fire

K.L.A.B.

Laughter by Maningning Miclat

The person speaking in the poem is a girl who has a boyfriend. In this poem the speaker is involved in the action happening in the poem. The situation happening in the poem is that the girl speaking is trying to hide her pain by his laughter. The boy does not want anymore the girl that is why he is leaving. It seems that the boy is not happy anymore with the relationship he has with his girlfriend. It is very ironic because the title suggests a positive idea but when you read the poem itself you will see that the title is opposite of the content of the poem. That is how i see the poem Laughter by Maningning Miclat.

Nick Joaquin and Carlos Bulosan

Carlos Bulosan

"One of the million Filipinos who found themselves in the United States in the two decades before and after World War II, Carlos Bulosan, his entire life and works, represents the heroic struggles and sacrifices of the Filipino community as a colonized and an emergent national agency in world history." -E San Juan Jr., 1999. We can obviously see his works were all about the struggles he and many Filipinos had experienced in America. His health condition has made him determined to writye great works. Despite of his illness, he still managed to write his experiences and other Filipinos abroad.

Nick Joaquin

Nick Joaquin is a poet, fictionist, essayist, biographer, playwright, and National Artist. For me, Nick was a great writer of his times. He contributed a lot to the development of Philippine Literature. "Joaquin has proven the truism, that to understand the present, you have to first know the past. And by presenting the present as a continuation of the future, he has traced the roots of our rotting society to our moral confusion." said by Alejandro Roces. He published lots of written works condsidered now as Literature. He also received many awards and prizes. He is a gifted Filipino with high imagination and who really knows how to write his works in English.


(Source:Pinoylit.webmanila.com: PinoyLit, A Philippine Literature Page
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(Source: Bulosan.org: Carlos Bulosan Memorial Exhibit
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Perception about Literature

I chose this picture as the representative of my perception about Literature because for me Literature means an expression of someone's feelings, thoughts, emotions and ideas done through writing.