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An Analysis of a 21st Century Philippine Literature entitled

Pedagogic

by Cirilo F. Bautista

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

for the subject of

21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World                                                                        

The poem “Pedagogic” is by Cirilo F. Bautista a Filipino poet, critic and writer and it is all about how teacher teaching the student everything s/he knows and educate the students whether it positive or negative behavior. When everyone is in the classroom teacher and students recognize that they are responsible for creating a learning community together and learning is the most meaningful and useful.   

In the end of the poem one student asked a question why does the teacher never changed color?

It states that why does the teacher never change his characteristics through generations to generations.

BACKGROUND

•   Authorial information:

                                                                                                                                    

Cirilo F. Bautista is born on July 9, 1941 on National capital region (NCR) in province of manila and died in may 6, 2018 on Libingan ng mga bayani . He is a Filipino poet, critic, Writer of nonfiction with exceptional achievements and significant contributions to the development of the country’s literary arts.

o Education

           He received his basic education from Legarda Elementary School 1st Honorable Mention in 1954 and  he is a Valedictorian on Victorino Mapa High School in 1959l . He received his degrees in AB Literature from the University of Santo Tomas  and he is magna cum laude on MA Literature from St. Louis University, Baguio in 1963, he is magna cum laude in 1968, and Doctor of Arts in Language and Literature from De La Salle University-Manila in 1990. He received a fellowship to attend the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1968 to 1969.

o Family background

   Cirilo Bautista was married to Rosemarie Bautista and had three children

o List of Awards and Year

• First Prize in Epic Writing English Category (1998)

• National Book Award (1999)

• Gintong Aklat  Award (1999)

• Palanca Awards (1995)

• Gawad Balagtas  (1997)

• Who’s Who in the World (1996)

•  Makata ng Taon (1993)

• he Traveler's Guide to Asian Literature (1993)

• Gawad Manuel L. Quezon (1996)

• St. Miguel Febres Cordero Research Award (2002)

• First Annual Dove Award (2001)

• Most Outstanding Achievement Award in Literature (1996)

• Most Outstanding Alumnus Award for Literature (1983)

• Most Outstanding Alumnus Award for Literature (1982)

• Award for Literature (1980)

• Most Outstanding Alumnus Award for Literature (1975)

o  List of works 

• Summer suns (1963)

• The Cave and Other Poems (1968)

• The Archipelago (1970)

• Charts (1973)

• Telex Moon (1981)

• Sugat ng Salita (1985)

• Kirot Ng Kataga (1995),

• Sunlight on Broken Stones (2000)

• Tinik Sa Dila: Isang Katipunan Ng Mga Tula (2003)

• The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus (2001)

• Believe and Betray: New and Collected Poems (2007)

• Pedagogic (2008)

• Textual information:

The pedagogic is published in year 2008.

 

COPY OF THE LITERARY TEXT

“Pedagogic”

    

I walked towards the falling woods

 to teach the trees all that I could

 

of time and birth, the language of men,

 the virtues of hate and loving.

 

They stood with their fingers flaming,

 Listened to me with a serious mien:

 

I knew the footnotes, all the text,

 my words were precise and correct

 

I was sure that they were learning

 till one tree spoke, speaking in dolor,

 to ask why I never changed color.

ANALYSIS

A. Literary Genre

The “Pedagogic” is a poetry with free verse. It is a poetry because it is written in lines and the language is expressed. The situation in the poem is the persona is teaching the students (trees/woods) everything s/he knows. The language used in the poem is still used in the present time. It considered as everyday language because most of the words in the poem are used in day to day conversation of people. It is using many metaphors it cannot be considered as colonial.

B. Analysis Guides

The purpose of teacher is to educate the students whether positive or negative behavior. There is no sound present in the poem because the author wrote it in a free verse style where there is no rhythm and rhyme. It has two lines per stanzas.

Reader Response

    As I started reading the poem, I thought I could not understand the poem. While I was reading the poem, one question that kept running in my mind, how the teachers teaching the students even when it is difficult to teach the students? But in this poem,  realized that even though it is difficult to teach children, teachers still teach it so that children can learn something.

Diction and style 

The words used by an author is informal diction on how the author teaching the students and he share his experiences through writing this poem.

Point of View

   The1st Pov was used in the poem because the teacher that was mentioned in the poem ‘Pedagogic' was the author himself. He wrote the poem ‘pedagogic” that maybe the situations in that poem is the one that author experience while he was teaching.

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Images and Symbols

  The similitude sited in the poem are the words “trees’ pertains to the students ‘fingers flaming" is pertains in the attentive minds of th students who are eager to learn everything that the teacher will share to theme the word “color” symbolize the characteristic of the teacher.

Sound Effects

No sounds effects were present because it is a free verse, it is a free from limitation and has no rhythm or rhyme scheme.

Viewpoint/Tone

    The author is recounted his experiences in teaching students. The author is professor in san Beda college and DLSU.

Theme

 The theme of the poem is all about learning. In the first stanza “I walked towards the falling woods to teach the trees all that I could’. The persona is teaching a trees pertaining to the students everything that s/he knows.

C. Contextual Analysis

o Using a biographical context, it can be concluded that the poem pedagogic is all about how Cirilo F. Bautista a Filipino poet critic, writer of nonfiction teacher, showed himself as a teacher teaching his students all about life and how the students showed their interest in the topic

o Using the sociocultural context, it can be concluded that the poem pedagogic is all about the matters in education that the author experienced while teaching and at the same time being a writer.

SUMMARY

It is all about a teacher teaching his/her students and in the end of the poem one student suddenly asked a question on why does the teacher never change his character and still the same after many generations that have passed.

REFERENCES

       You may just have to provide an introductory sentence here first before actually writing all the information needed below.

       All informations was mostly search on the internet and websites that is listed below. Some of it was our own knowledge about the things that we learned in this previews activities and the previews information given by the teacher.  

WEB LINKS

https://en,wikipediaorg/wiki/Cirilo_bautista

https://cfbautista.tripod,com/poem2,htm

https://www.academiaedu/19620134/Pedagogic