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    I Have Begrudged The Year

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    The poem "I Have Begrudged the Years" by Angela Manalang-Gloria explores a persona's fear of declaring their love out of fear of rejection. By keeping their love secret, the persona feels deprived of both happiness and sadness that expressing their love could bring. The uncertainties of whether their love would be reciprocated or accepted keep this precious feeling unspoken. The poem discusses how love left unsaid can feel like a loss despite attempts to preserve it from the "dictatorial years" and inevitability of time.

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    The poem "I Have Begrudged the Years" by Angela Manalang-Gloria explores a persona's fear of declaring their love out of fear of rejection. By keeping their love secret, the persona feels deprived of both happiness and sadness that expressing their love could bring. The uncertainties of whether their love would be reciprocated or accepted keep this precious feeling unspoken. The poem discusses how love left unsaid can feel like a loss despite attempts to preserve it from the "dictatorial years" and inevitability of time.

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    The poem "I Have Begrudged the Years" by Angela Manalang-Gloria explores a persona's fear of declaring their love out of fear of rejection. By keeping their love secret, the persona feels deprived of both happiness and sadness that expressing their love could bring. The uncertainties of whether their love would be reciprocated or accepted keep this precious feeling unspoken. The poem discusses how love left unsaid can feel like a loss despite attempts to preserve it from the "dictatorial years" and inevitability of time.

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    I Have Begrudged The Year

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    The poem "I Have Begrudged the Years" by Angela Manalang-Gloria explores a persona's fear of declaring their love out of fear of rejection. By keeping their love secret, the persona feels deprived of both happiness and sadness that expressing their love could bring. The uncertainties of whether their love would be reciprocated or accepted keep this precious feeling unspoken. The poem discusses how love left unsaid can feel like a loss despite attempts to preserve it from the "dictatorial years" and inevitability of time.

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    I HAVE BEGRUDGED THE YEARS

    Angela Manalang-Gloria (1915-1996) had her roots in Guagua,Pampanga. She is essentially a lyric poet and a pianist who

    voices her moods and desires through musical, singing stanzas. A practical woman reshaped by the realities of life, she

    had found that life is not all love, that love is not the only way to one's goal. In this particular poem, the persona evades

    declaring his/her love in fear of being rejected and the unbearable pain it may bring in the process. By keeping the love a

    secret, he /she is deprived from the feeling of happiness and sadness. I consider this poem very significant because it

    converses about a love from the walls of fear. The uncertainties keep a precious feeling unspoken.

    Shirlyn Karen Reinares

    I HAVE BEGRUDGED THE YEARS

    Angela Manalang-Gloria

    Perhaps the years will get me after all,

    Though I have sought to cheat them of their due

    By documenting in beauty’s name my soul

    And locking out of sight my revenue

    Of golden rapture and of sterling tears,

    Let others give to Caesar Caesar’s own:

    I have begrudged the dictatorial years

    The right usurious to tax me to the bone,

    Therefore behold me now, a Timon bent

    On hoarding each coin of love that should be spent

    On you and you, and hushing all display

    Of passionate splendour lest I betray

    My wealth, lest the sharp years in tithes retrieve

    Even the heart not worn upon my sleeve.

    Source: Dimalanta, Ophelia A., Virginia M. Mata. Philippine Contemporary Literature in English: Tradition and Change(

    From the 20’s to the Present). University of Santo Tomas: UST Publishing House, 2001.

    http://pinoylit.webmanila.com/filipinowriters/amgloria.htm

    posted by darvin's species at 8:06 pm


    3 comments:
    darvin's species said...

    I believe that love is untrue when it is kept and left unsaid. There are things in life that have to wait

    or be kept, even if it hurts so much, even if it means being dishonest to yourself and to the whole

    world. Love, in this poem, is one that is true..although not reciprocated. It does not ask for anything

    in return.

    (Ma. Daphne Regina T. Toledo)

    December 12, 2004 at 5:46 PM

    anonymous said...

    Not being able to express what you truly feel for a person is a sign of cowardice. If you love

    someone, tell him, show him. You shouldn't be afraid of rejection because nothing will happen if you

    are too scared to admit what you really feel. If you get rejected, then just accept it even if it hurts

    because love can really be painful at times.

    December 16, 2004 at 11:18 PM

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