21st Century Literature From The Philippines and The World: Lesson 3 Week 4

21st Century Literature from the
Philippines and the World

LESSON 3 WEEK 4
Mood
 Mood is one element in the narrative structure of a piece of literature. It can also
be referred to as atmosphere because it creates an emotional setting enveloping
the reader. Mood is established in order to affect the reader emotionally and
psychologically and to provide a feeling for the narrative. It is how a reader feels
after reading a story. Example: Horror movie gives the suspense mood to the
audience because of the nature of the story, the music used and the plot. It gives
the feeling of suspense to the viewers.
Activity 6
 Discuss with three or four of your classmates what you like about the following: a. Poem b. Its subject c. The
mood the poem puts in you d. What it makes you remember e. What it makes you think about Share your
findings with the class.
What I like about
Group’s Name Title
of the poem Its
subject
the mood the poem puts you in What
it makes you remember
What it makes you think about Its

impact to you
The next example of a narrative poem is that of Dr. Paolo Manalo, a professor in UP Diliman. His
work which is shown below is a narrative poem with a different structure and form compared to that of
Rio Alma‘s more traditional poetry style.
PAOLO MANALO is a poet born in Manila and an assistant professor of

English, literature and creative writing at the University of the Philippines-
Diliman. Until recently, he was the literary editor of the Philippines Free Press.
His first book of poems, Jolography (University of the Philippines Press, 2003)
received the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (2002) and
the UP Gawad Chanselor (2004). He was a student at the 15th New York State
Summer Writers Institute (2001), a fellow of the UP ICW National Writers'
Workshop when it was revamped (2006) and an artist-in residence at The
MacDowell Colony (2006). At took his postgraduate studies at the University of
St. Andrews in Scotland.
Critics say that poetry is as alive as ever, albeit with reduced readership, with contemporary
writers taking on varied experimental approaches. Thus works like Jolography (from the word jolog,
which originally referred to Pinoy hip-hop), where poems by Paolo Manalo are in ―textese‖ or
Taglish (Tagalog plus English), written in the premise that, in Manalo‘s words, ―the language that
we‘re using is flawed, damaged, corrupted, sold out, negotiated… and yet it‘s still beautiful.”
Jolography, which won First Prize in the 2002 Palanca Awards, has apparently sparked interest,
where other young writers even attempted to follow suit. Below is an example
Below is an example of a 21st Century poem written by Paolo Manalo
from his collection Jolography.
CoÑotations (An Excerpt)
Paolo Manalo
1. I‘m like tripping right now I have suitcase fever.
2. Dude, man, pare, three people can be the same.
3. Except he‘s not who he says he is, pare. He‘s a sneeze with Chinese blood: Ha Ching!
4. Naman, it‘s like our Tagalog accent, so they won‘t think we‘re all airs; so much weight
it means nothing naman.
5. Dude, man, pare, at the next stop we‘ll make buwelta. So they can see we know how to look
where we came from.
6. It‘s hirap kaya to find a connection. Who ba‘s puwede to be our guide?
7. Dude, man, can you make this areglo naman?
8. Make it pabalot kaya in the mall. So they can‘t guess what you‘re thinking. That‘s what I call a
package deal.
Processing
1. Who do you think are the characters in the poem?
2. Using the urban dictionary, define ―CoÑo”.
3. What do these characters talk about?
4. Is there a story that you can derive from the poem?
5. What are some events or situations mentioned in the poem?
6. What language/s did the author use in the given selection?
7. Have you tried using the same language while talking to friends or other family members?
8. Can you easily understand the meaning of the lines from the poem based on the language used?
9. Who do you think are the types of individuals that use these kind of language?
Code-switching and code-mixing are present in this poem, for example lines 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12, where Filipino and English words are used in the same
sentence. Repetition of the words ―dude‖,
―man‖, ―pare‖ and ―he‘s‖ also plays a significant role in this poem.
Even when the poem is somewhat ambiguous, it does not confuse coherent reading. It
actually enables one to think profoundly and absorb the creativeness of the writer even if
the poem is unpredictable in some way.
Activity 8
Using your own words and understanding, retell the some of the lines from the poem
―CoÑotations”. Write your interpretation per line on the space provided.
1. I‘m like tripping right now I have suitcase fever.
2. 2. Dude, man, pare, three people can be the same.
3. 3. So they can see we know how to look where we came from.
4. 4. Dude, man, can you make this areglo naman?
5. 5. Make it pabalot kaya in the mall?

Activity 9 My Own Jolography
Create a short stanza poem depicting your own Jolography. Think an appropriate title.
Activity 10 My Narrative Poem
Write a short narrative poem from one of your life’s experiences. Make use of the different figures
of speech. Be able to formulate a title of it.

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What it makes you think about Its

PAOLO MANALO is a poet born in Manila and an assistant professor of

2. 2. Dude, man, pare, three people can be the same.

3. 3. So they can see we know how to look where we came from.

4. 4. Dude, man, can you make this areglo naman?

5. 5. Make it pabalot kaya in the mall?

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