CW Report Lesson 3

Liezel O.
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Creative writing lesson 3 but it is a lesson 1 introduction to poetry
All of us experienced strongest emotion it can be anger, happiness, or fear and sometimes mixed of different
things. By the help of poetry that emotion that we don’t know how to label helps us flesh out or put that feeling
into words. This examples *I am in love. *I feel anxious. *I’m excited. *I’m feeling happy. *I am hopeful.
Each poet saw it fit to use a particular situation or image to represent this emotion. But in the other side there has
also ways of showing grief that does not given by the examples.
What is poem? We can assume that all sentimental writing is poetry by William Wordsworth it is a “spontaneous
overflow of feeling”. He goes on to say that poetry is “emotion recollected in tranquility meaning these feeling that
one attempts to put into words have been processed and meditated on as represented by the word “tranquility”.
The poem is experience itself it is the “moment lived” as Gemino H. Abad would say. Like Ezra Pound writes in
his poem “In a Station of the Metro” which the act of reading the poem is the actual moment.
What is the difference of prose and poetry?
Obviously, visually it seems
Like poetry. But in fact, delineation
Is not the only element of a poem.
The text above is a prose but written like a poem. But prose is written or spoken language in its ordinary form,
without metrical structure.
The other elements of poetry are meter, sound, imagery, and structure..
Philippine poetry in english
Poet and anthologist Gemino H. Abad classified the Philippine poetry in English into three strains. That is
Romantic, the Formalist and the Open Clearing. Here is a brief history of Philippine poetry in English as outlined
by Abad:
The Romantic Spirit: From Fernando M. Maramag to Jose Garcia Villa
The beginning of poetry in English written by Filipino authors like Fernando M. Maramag and Luis G. Dato writing
poems that represented our way of life. However writers such as Jose Garcia Villa and Angela Manalang-Gloria
have slowly claimed English language as their own and began molding the language to fit their needs. On 1912
there is a poem called Moonlight on Manila Bay by Maramag.
This Romantic poetry is the poetry of sentiments, emotions and imagination. It is the poetry of the Romantic era
an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th
century.
The Formalist Strain: From Edith L. Tiempo to Cirilo F. Bautista
Iowa Writing Program graduates like Edith and Edilberto Tiempo, pushed for the use of this critical lens
prioritizing organic unity, metaphor and emotional restraint. Filipino poets has been more creative in the use of
english. There is an example by Carlos A. Angeles called “Gabu”
It was a late-twentieth century development in American poetry. Formalism' in poetry refers to poetry written in
verse, with meter and often with end rhyme. ‘New formalist' is sometimes used.to distinguish modern formalist
verse from traditional poetry.
The Open Clearing: From the 1970s to the Present
From the 1970s onwards Abad sees Filipino poetry in English as having mastered the colonial language. Until
1999 when A Habit of Shores the anthology by Abad. The sample text that Abad gives as exemplifying this open
space is Tiempo’s “Bonsai”. Abad observes that there is a marked difference in style from the time Tiempo wrote
“Lament for the Littlest Fellow’ in the 1950s to this poem written in 1972.
This difference is marked by the influence of new critics such as Tiempo, who, together with her husband
Edilberto , pioneered the Dumaguete Writers Workshop now known as the Silliman University National Writers
Workshop, after the well-known Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
An open clearing form of poem does not follow traditional patterns or structures. These poems are more
commonly known as free verse poems. It is just another way name for a narrative poetry.

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Liezel O.

Creative writing lesson 3 but it is a lesson 1 introduction to poetry

What is the difference of prose and poetry?

Obviously, visually it seems

Like poetry. But in fact, delineation

Is not the only element of a poem.

Philippine poetry in english

The Romantic Spirit: From Fernando M. Maramag to Jose Garcia Villa

The Formalist Strain: From Edith L. Tiempo to Cirilo F. Bautista

The Open Clearing: From the 1970s to the Present

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