PHILIPPINE LITERATURE

GROUP 3 2AD7

TOPICS

Patalim

The Day the Dancers Came

PATALIMCirilo F. Bautista

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA

• Born in 1941• A poet, fictionist, critic, and writer of nonfiction.• Recived a degree in AB Literature in the

university of Santo Tomas and graduated a cum laude in 1963.

• In 1968, Re received a defree on MA Literature in St. Louis University, Baguio City and also graduated a cum laude.

• In 1990, Bautista received a Doctor on Arts In Literature from De La Salle University- Manila.

BIOGRAPHY

• In 1968-1969 He received a fellowship to attend the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and was awarded an honorary degree.

• He is a co-founding member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC) and a member of the Manila Critics Circle, Philippine Center of International PEN and the Philippine Writers Academy.

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA

BIOGRAPHY

• His awards include the Palanca, Free Press, National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle, Gawad Balagtas, the Pablo Ro man Prize for the Novel, and the highest accolades from the City of Manila, Quezon City, and Iligan City.

• In 1993, Bautista was hailed as Makata ng Taon by the Komisyon ng mga Wika ng Pilipinas.

• In 1998, the last part of his epic trilogy The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus , entitled Sunlight on Broken Stones , won the Centennial Prize for the epic.

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA

BIOGRAPHY

Summer Suns

The Cave and Other Poems

The Archipelago

Charts

Telex Moon

Sugat ng Salita

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA

WORKS

Kirot Ng Kataga

Sunlight On Broken Stones

Tinik Sa Dila: Isang Katipunan

Ng Mga Tula

The Trilogy Of Saint Lazarus

Believe and Betray: New and

Collected Poems

Poetry

Stories (1990) Galaw ng Asoge (2004)

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA

WORKSFiction

Breaking Signs (1990)Words And Battlefields: A Theoria On The

Poem The Estrella D. Alfon Anthology Vol. I - Short

StoriesBullets And Roses: The Poetry Of Amado V.

Hernandez

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA

WORKSLiterary Theory and Cultural Studies

PATALIM

Araw-arawsinusubok naming mag-asawa

ang talimng aming balaraw

halimbawakung umiyakang bunsong anak

at hindi kumilos angsintang mahalsasaksakin ko siya sa likod

at patawang pagmamasdanhabang duguangpasususuhin niya

ang bunso

PATALIM

Kung pundi ang bumbilya sa aming kusina

at ako'y abalasa paglikha ng tula

hindi niya ako titigilanng saksak sa batok

hanggang ang ilaw ay dinapapalitanPatas lang ang aming labanan

lagot kung lagot walangdayaan

PATALIM

kayasa katapusan ng araw

magbibilang kaming

sugatat tila mga gulanit na kaluluwa

at magtatawananat magsusuntukan pa

Ganito kami lagi sapagkatlabis ang pag-ibig naming sa

isa't isa

SYMBOLISMS

• Patalim – metaphor used by the author to depict their love for each other

• Talim ng aming balaraw – tamis ng ating pagmamahalan

• Hindi niya ako titigilan ng Sasak sa batok - di titigil sa kakangawa

GUIDE QUESTIONS

1. How is love depicted in the poem?

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2. Explain the metaphor of dagger to signify the couple's undying love for each other.

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3. Why does the author use an edged weapon to represent love instead of more common representations like a rose, a heart, or a kiss?

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4. a. Explain the line. "Araw-araw, sinusubok naming mag-asawa ang talim ng aming balaraw."

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b. Represent this with the last line, "Ganito kami lagi sapagkat labis ang pagibig namin sa isa't-isa."

GUIDE QUESTIONS

5. Do you believe that true love is cut to the measure of great conflicts? Substantiate your answer.

SYMBOLISMS

THE DAY THE DANCERS CAMEBienvenido Santos

Bienvenido Santos

BIENVENIDO SANTOS

• Born on March 22, 1911 in Tondo, Manila• In 1932, he obtained his BA from the University

of the Philippines and became an elementary and high school teacher

• In 1941 he pursued an MA in English at the University of Illinois, Columbia University and Harvard University.

• In 1946 he returned in the Philippines, taught school and became a school administrator.

BIOGRAPHY

BIENVENIDO SANTOS

• In 1958 he was a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the Writers Workshop in the University of Iowa where he later taught as a Fulbright exchange professor. He has received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature.

• In 1981, he honorary degrees in Letters and Humanities from UP and Bicol University

BIOGRAPHY

BIENVENIDO SANTOS

• In 1973-1982, Santos became a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Wichita State University and was awarded an honorary degree in humane letters upon his retirement.

• In 1973-1982, Santos became a visiting writer and artist at the De La Salle University in Manila after he retired

• Bienvenido Santos passed away in 1996

BIOGRAPHY

The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor

Brother My Brother The Praying Man The Volcano Villa Magdalena What the Hell For You Left Your Heart in San

Francisco

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA

WORKSNovels

Dwell in the Wilderness Scent of Apples The Day the Dancers Came You Lovely People

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA

WORKSShort Stories

o Distances: In Timeo The Wounded Stag: 54 Poems

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA

WORKSPoetry

Memory's Fictions: A Personal History

Postscript to a Saintly Life Letters: Book 1 Letters: Book 2

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA

WORKSNon-fiction

Exposition The plot centers on the short story’s two main protagonists, Filemon Acayan, a fifty year-old, naturalized Filipino citizen and Antonio Bataller, a former Pullman porter who is suffering from a rare skin disease.

PLOT

Rising ActionThe dancers came, but they were perhaps too young and too elegant to accept an invitation from an old, stalker-like man. The day the dancers came, Fil felt inferior and poorer than ever. He felt as if he was directly detached from his roots in the Philippines and alienated by the young Filipinos and Filipinas who have arrived in his new found land in Chicago.

PLOT

Nevertheless, Fil still pursued his love and admiration for the young dancers. He recorded the dance troupe’s performance on his old portable tape recorder in hopes of inspiring Tony, who was not as excited as he was the day the dancers came.

ClimaxFil returns home later that evening after the concert of the dancers. He takes a nap, weary from his travel and disappointment. When he wakes up, he realizes that Tony had just come home (from a visit to the doctor) and he takes out his portable tape recorder which he plays to listen to sounds that he recorded during the concert.

PLOT

Tony suddenly insists that Fil turn the thing off. Fil panics and wanting to know how Tony’s visit to the doctor went, he suddenly presses many buttons on the recorder to the point that he accidentally deletes everything – the other sounds he used to record, and the sound of the concert that he had just done so.

GUIDE QUESTIONS

1. Why does Fil cling to old memories of home through an evening with the dancers who came to Chicago?

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2. Why does Fil consider TIME and MEMORY as villains?

GUIDE QUESTIONS

3. How does the erased recording of the dancers' performance present a metaphor for Fil's feeling of exile and homesickness?

GUIDE QUESTIONS

4. After the encounter with the dancers from the Philippines and the erased recording, how would you describe Fil's understanding of the migrant's sense of loneliness, specifically as Santos' ends his story: "Biting his lips, Fil turned towards the window, startled by the first light of dawn. He hadn't realized till then the long night was over.

GUIDE QUESTIONS

5. How does Bienvenido Santos picture the feeling of alienation by the first generation of immigrants to America? How does it parallel or present a different picture when compared to the experience of contemporary Filipino migrants in America and anywhere in the world today?

SYMBOLISMS

• Tape recorder – connection to the past

• Filipino Dancers – the only thing that reminds Fil of the Philippines