PHILIPPINE LITERATURE UNDER U.S COLONIANISM

By: Rothgen S. Labrigas

NOTABLE WORKS

To The National Hero

Kamay ng BerhinPanulat

A Son Is Born At Ako’y Inanod Ang Pangginggera

A Son Is Born

Pag-ibig

Greta Garbo

NOTABLE WORKS

Footnote To Youth

Ang Lihim ng Isang Pulo

Ang Lihim ng Isang Pulo

Pinaglahuan

Banaag At Sikat

How My Brother Leon

Brought Home A Wife

Though you tell me not

Two faces of America

Malikmata

To The National Hero

This poem is dedicated to our national

hero

This poem considered as the best poem

in praise of hero of Bagumbayan

It is written by: Cecilio Apostol

The classic story of Greta Garbo tells the love story of

Monina Vargas a young beautiful maiden and her love affair Octavio

Razon, one of the country’s most noted pilot

The Greta Garbo story is based on the actress Greta Garbo long time ago, in the character of monina Vargas that everyman adored and

love her because her gorgeousness

Written by: Deogracias A.

Rosario

A SON IS BORN

By: Manuel Arquilla

It relates the story of the Birth of the third son in a poor provincial family.

The Story serves mainly to paint a quaint picture of barrio life by presenting local color and the

rhythms of the lives of simple folk.

Anabella is a nostalgic trip to 30’s a love

story of a boy and a

girl. That the boy is rich

and his mother takes

him away from his

lover.

The story “Si A

nabella’’

was the first

published by

Magdalena Jalandoni in

the book of Corazon

Villareal . Transla

ting the

sugilanon on

(1994 135-141).

AT AKO’Y INANOD

Written by Marcel Navarra

The story is about the two bestfriends that used to

be together all the time in the past but later got

separated because one of them studying .

Story ended with the chick boy and one of

his girls having an argument.

‘’ANG

PANGGIN

GGERA’’

Written on 1912

Ang pangginggera ay tungkol sa buhay ng isang babaeng napariwara dahil sa pagkalulung sa sugal na

pangginge.

Written by Carlos Bulosan

‘’PANULAT’’

Written by

Benigno Ramos

Written on

1930

The poem isa about a writer who believes that

writing is such a powerful tool that

it can be the source of a country’s

downfall or success.

s

‘’PAG-IBIG’’

Written on 1926

Written by Jose Corazon De

Jesus

Ang tulang itop ay isang paalala sa mga kabataang

umibig at masasabing isa sa pinakaromantikong tula sa panitikan

Pilino .

‘’KAMAY NG BIRHEN’’

The poem is about how his love for

women change him for the better.

Written by Jose Corazon De Jesus

Written in the year 1929

The poem said that the hands of virgin have the power to transform even hardened criminals into

good men.

FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH

This story gives

a great moral lesson for the youth and for

the teenager .

Footnote to youth

by Jose Garcia

Villas is tackles the

responsibilities and

realities that come

from the marriage

and the family life.

Written on

year 1993

This story serves

as reminder to all

youths in what s

going on life in

the future.

It was the story of a boy who was only

17 year old when he

decides to marry his love

HOW MY BROTHER LEON BROUGHT HOME A WIFE

It is the story about an occasion

that would be a big day in the life of any family, the

day one of the sons of the family brings hope the

woman he intends to marry.

First published on 1970.

The story explain some ways on what is the meaning of true love how this true love can be shown.

Written by Manuel Arquilla

Banaag At Sikat

Banaag At sikat or from “Early dawn to full light” is one of the first literary novels written by Filipino author Lope K. Santos in the tagalog language in 1906 .As the book that was considered as the Bible of working class

Filipinos

It is also about Delfin and his love for the daughter of a

rich landlord.

The novel is about two friends Delfin and Felipe is

a socialist, while Felipe advocates the works of an

anarchist.

Pinaglahuan was a pioneer novel in Philippine Literature that tackled social realism in

the Philippines, meaning it was one of the first books to focus

on the realistic state of Philippine society.

First published 1907. Considered a major Tagalog

classic on the American occupation and the

accompanying exploitative forces of materialism and

capitalism

It tale of a forbidden love as driven by a

compromising forces in a murky early 20th century

Manila century.

Written by Faustino A. Aguilar on 1907

ANG LIHIM NG ISANG PULO

Written on 1926

Written by Faustino Aguilar pumapaksa ito sa

sinaunang pampulitika’t pangkulturang kalagayan ng mga Tagalog bago pa man dumating ang mga Espanyol sa kapuluan.

KON/K

UNG

The poem shows the

author wants to give

happiness to other

people.

This poem also shows how beautiful nature is, and the good thing it brings to us.

The author uses

simile to use

nature as the main

mover of the said

poem.

Written by Gardeopatra Quijano

“THOUGH YOU TELL ME NOT’’

This poem is about a kind of person who can’t say what he/she feels for someone maybe he/she was shyy or afraid who would be the response of

the person of their love

Written by Evangeline Guirero.

It is all about a simple but silent guy who’s in love

to girl.

The plot of A

merica is

in the heart p

arallels

it’s author

experience.

Written by

Carlos Bulosan

Published on 1946.

The two faces of America boldly reinterprets the American political

tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race

relationship, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of

shifting nations of empire and citizenship.

Malikmata a Tagalog horror

series was aired over ABC-5 in 1972, with Lupita Concio(Kashiwakara) at

the helm.

Written on the year 1972

Written by Jose Corazon De

Jesus

RECREATIONA

L PLAY

And

Wanted:

A

Chapero

n

HJKNUJNKV Kahapo

n ,

Ngayon

at Bukas

‘’KAHAPON, NGAYON AT BUKAS’’

This play defecting the

suppression done by the American

and plan to colonize the Philippines.

Written By Aurelio

Tolentino

It is an anti-imperialist play attacking the

new colonizers.

‘’WANTED:

A CHAPERON

’’

Writte

n by

Wilfredo M

a.

Guerrero

The play is about the traditional way of courting and a companying girls o a party and in other occasion.

Published on

1948

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