Sa Poetry

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Sa Poetry

BY: ROLANDO TINIO


Group of:
Magallanes
Rosales
Soguilon
Villanueva
Rolando Tinio
Short Biography
 Rolando (Santos) Tinio is famous for being a playwright, poet and
translator. He was born in Tondo.
 Date of birth: March 5, 1997.
 Died in Manila in on July 7, 1997.
 Belonged to the anti-Romantic group of Tagalog poets known as
the Bagay (Object) group who describe things and avoid giving
interpretations.
 He is better known as a playwright and translator of plays, founding
and artistically directing the Teatro Pilipino (1975-92).
 His first book of poems in Tagalog, Sitsit sa Kuliglig (Cricket Gossip),
was published in 1972; there were two others and in 1994, a
selection of his poems in English and Tagalog.
 Among the most popular of his poems are a handful of poems not
wholly in Tagalog, but in a code-switching combination of Tagalog
and English.
Sa poetry, you let things take shape,
Para bang nagpapatulo ng isperma sa tubig,
You start siyempre with memories,
'Yung medyo malagkit, kahit mais,
Na mais: love lost, dead dreams,
Rotten silences, and all
Manner of mourning basta't murder.

Papatak 'yan sa papel, ano.


Parang pait,
Kakagat ang typewriter keys.
You sit up like the mother of anxieties.
Worried na worried hanggang magsalakip
Ang odds and ends ng inamag mong pag-ibig.
Jigsaw puzzle. Kung minsan, everything fits.
Pero sige ang pasada ng images
Hanggang makuha perfectly ang trick.
At parang amateur magician kang bilib
Sa sleight-of-hand na pinapraktis:
Nagsilid ng hangin sa buslo, dumukot,
By golly, see what you've got -
Bouquet of African daisies,
Kabit-kabit na kerchief,
Kung suwerte pa, a couple of pigeons,
Huhulagpos, be-blend sa katernong horizon,
You can't say na kung saan hahapon.
Analysis
 Paragraph 1: It describes on how to start making poems, the poet is
thinking of a certain topic from what he remembers on point even if
it is non-sense, corny, or interesting.
 Paragraph 2: The poet is describing how difficult it is to connect the
ideas to make it complete and meaningful.
 Paragraph 3: Upon finalizing the needed things to be fixed and
aligned with the ideas he has proposed. He may be surprised by the
actual result that he worked on. If he is lucky enough, his work may
be more beautiful and meaningful.
Symbolism
 1. “isperma sa tubig” the water resembles the paper and the
isperma resembles our mind or our thoughts
 2.

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