Literature

• Bond between the Philippines and

the americans still continues even
after the declaration of
independence day in 1946. in the
field of poetrry during the
contemporary period, young poets
to campus journals emerged.
•The "Bagay" movement which
is a kind of poetry that uses
colloquial language and is built
on concrete images which tend
to describe experiences also
took the scene.
 • bagay poetry
• Paksiw na Ayungin
• by Jose F. Lacaba
•
• Ganito ang pagkain
• ng paksiw na ayungin:
• bunutin ang palikpik
• (para sa pusa iyan
• at ang matirang tinik),
• at ilapat sa labi
• ang ulo, at sipsipin
• ang mga matang dilat:
• pagkatapos ay mismong
• ang ulo ang sipsipin
• hanggang sa maubos ang
• katas nito.
• Saka mo
• umpisahan ang laman.
•
• Unti-unti lang, dahan-
• dahan, at simutin nang
• husto--kakaunti iyang
• ulam natin, mahirap
• humagilap ng ulam.
• Damihan mo ang kanin,
• Poets, JOSE F. LACABA, ROLANDO TINO,
BIENVENIDO LUMBERA, ANTONIO SAMSON
and EDMUNDO MARTINEZ started the bagay
movement.

• An example of bagay poetry is the

Valediction sa hillcrest which is written by
Rolando Tino which employs taglish
• later on national consciousness was inserted
into bagay poetry

• Another form of poetry was introduced by

Amado V. Hernandez through his work
Bayang malaya, it is a long narrative
piece about a peasant leader its themes
are oppression and fighting for human
rights. His influence was evident to
Filipino poets
• Social protest and social realism
became the themes of the poems
protest poetry prolifirated. National
spirit of writers arose because of the
martial law
• During the contemporary period,
American and British poets influenced
the english poems of the Philippines
• Edith teimpo,Emannuel torres and Dominador Ilio
were the poets who were influenced by the
western poets their works revolve on subjects like
seach for love and identity, oppression and
subjects containing the poets private worlds. This
poetry was followed by poems containing social
issues.
• The rise of nationalistic poetry discussing poverty,
inequality,political turmoil and other social
problems started during the Marcos era.
• In the area of novels, the production of novels with
socio political themes continued after the word war II.
English poets and short story writers focused on the
search for identity
• In the area of essay and criticism, literary criticism was
produced after the word war II aiming to analze the
philippine writtings , informal essay on the other hand
also took the scene which was developed by women
writers. The contemporary philippine literature was a
mixture of a variety of subjects and a product of
different innovative techniques of writters