21 Century Literature From The Philippines and The World: Literary Periods
21 Century Literature From The Philippines and The World: Literary Periods
21 Century Literature From The Philippines and The World: Literary Periods
Riddles
Folk Songs
Proverbs
Oral Literature
Forms of Folk Tales
Lullabies
Ilocano on “guilt”
“Ti agutak, (He who cackles)
Isut nagitlog.” (Laid the egg)
These are folk lyrics that are usually
chanted.
These usually contain ideas on
aspirations, hopes, everyday life and
expressions of love for loved ones.
Folk Songs It is bounded by the learning of good
morals.
It is easy to understand because it is
straightforward and not figurative in
nature.
Lullabies
These are locally known as Hele.
Sung to put babies to sleep
Folk Songs The content varies but usually they are
about how hard life is and how parents
hope that their child will not experience
the hardships of life.
Drinking Songs
These are locally known as Tagay.
Sung during drinking sessions
Folk Songs
Religious Songs
These are songs or chants that are usually
given during exorcisms and thanksgiving
during good harvest.
Love Songs
To many Filipinos, these are known as Harana.
It can also be called as courtship songs.
Used by young men to capture the heart of the girl
they love.
Folk Songs
Songs of Death
These are lamentations that contain the roll/list of
good deeds that the dead has usually done to
immortalize his/her good image.
Example of a lullaby:
Ilocano
Maturog, duduayya (Go to sleep, dear little one)
Maturog kad tay bunga, (Will my child please sleep)
Folk Songs Tay lalaki nga napigsa (This strong boy)
Ta inton dumakkel tay bunga, (So when the child grows
big)
Isunto aya tay mammati (He will obey)
Tay amon a ibaga me. (Everything that we will say)
Mga kwentong bayan
Stories of native Filipinos
These deal with the power of nature and
submission to a deity (Bathala), and how this
Folk Tales deity is responsible for the blessings and
calamities.
These also tackle about irresponsibility, lust,
stupidity, deception, and fallibility that
eventually leads to instilling good morals.
Usual Themes:
Ceremonies needed to appease the deities
Pre and post apocalypse
Life and death
Folk Tales Gods and goddesses
Heroes and heroines
Supernatural beings
Animals
Myths
These tackle the natural to strange
occurences of the Earth and how things
Folk Tales were created with an aim to give an
explanation to things.
Additional info: Bathala is for Tagalogs and the
Gueurang for the Bikolanos. Paradise is known as
Maca, while Hell is Kasanaan.
Legends
Through these, natives understood mysteries around them.
Usually comes with a moral lesson that give credit to
supernatural powers, occurrences, and other out-of-this-world
native imagination.
Folk Tales
Fables
Short or brief stories that cater the native Filipino children
Usually bounded by good manners and right conduct
Use animals as characters to represent a particular value or
characteristic
Epics
These are lengthy narratives that are
based on oral traditions.
Folk Tales
Contain encounters of fighters,
stereotypical princes or heroes that save a
damsel in distress.
Examples:
Myths
The Story of Bathala
Ang Pag-aaway in Dagat at Langit
Legends
The Legend of Maria Makiling
Folk Tales The Legend of Pinya
Fables
Ang Koneho at ang Pagong
The Grasshopper and the Ants
Epics
Hinalawod
Biag ni Lam-ang
Spanish Period
1565 - 1898
Spanish colonization of the Philippines
started in 1565 during the time of Miguel
Lopez de Legaspi, the first Spanish
Spanish governor-general in the Philippines.
Literature started to flourish during his
Period time.
The Filipinos were then called “Ladinos”,
meaning they were latinized.
Filipinos were called two things: “Taga-
bayan” and “Taga-bukid” or “Taga-
bundok”
A taga-bayan is considered urbane and
Spanish civilized and were easy range of the
Period church and state.
A taga-bukid or taga-bundok “Bruto
Savage” (Savage Brute) or Indio, and
were the ones who lived far from the
center of the Spanish power.
Religious Literature
Pasyon
Senakulo
Komedya
Forms of Secular or Non-Religious Literature
Literature Awit
Korido
Prose Narratives
Propaganda Literature
Revolutionary Literature
Religious Revolves around the life and death of
Literature Jesus Christ
Pasyon
It is about the passion (journey and suffering) and the death
of Jesus Christ.
Senakulo
Religious It is the re-enactment of the Pasyon.
Literature
Komedya
It depicts the European society through love and fame, but
can also be a narrative about a journey.
Considered religious because it usually depicts the battle
between the Christians and the Saracens or the Moros.
Secular or Non- Revolves around tales of valiance and
Religious adventure.
Literature
Awit
These are tales of chivalry where knight saves a princess.
Florante at Laura is a good example.