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COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE

VARIOUS 21ST CENTURY


LITERARY GENRES AND OTHER
ELEMENTS STRUCTURE AND
TRADITIONS OF THE PHILIPPINES
Compare and contrast
• Traditional Literature cannot that be defined.
We have many recognized movements in
literature that start around the Renaissance.
And after this era or period, literature cannot
be defined as traditional or modern because
like language, literature can be dynamic and
arbitrary.



• Here’s a comparison of literature before
and now: literature before has a strict
conformity on system, norm, elitism, and
romanticism while literature now can have
free verse, focus on peculiar subjects,
unconventional point of views, and topics
can be about technology and new
knowledge.
• Literature starts way back in prehistory
when everything was in the oral tradition.
But literature before and after 21st century
have oral lore . Before, mythology and epics
were being told to generations and to
generations while our contemporary
literature have spoken word performances,
poetry reading, etc.
• Creative writing were both penchants of
writers before and after 21st century, but the
topics maybe different such as: human
versus god before, while human versus
artificial intelligence now. This is about
difference between 21st century and 20th
century literature or in other words, this is
about classic vs modern literature.
• • If traditional means not-modern and
modern means 21st century… traditional
articles would be in the realm of expected
formats such as sonnets that would follow
designated meters and rhyme schemes
while 21st century literature themes and
rhymes are unconventional and much
more of an avant-garde.



• • Here’sanother difference of 21st century literature, modernists
would be more in lines of free verse, no set rhyme scheme, or
format unlike conventional writers.


• • Again, the difference would be traditional follows expected forms
and formats while modern deviates. Anyways, there are
disadvantages too on modernism. Here’s a related link: Is the
experience of reading literature more important than googiling
information on the internet?why or why not -
brainly.ph/question/612174


• • Ancient literature, if that’s what you mean by traditional literature,
was predominantly oral, didactic and mythical, full of romanticism
and idealism. Modern writers are revolutionary and has this genre
such as Dadaism to publish.
• Some say that the small differences between
ancient and modern literature are actually
hidden in shifts in language.


• • Modern literature has this development of
human consciousness with a freer exchange
of ideas. The literature nowadays has shifted
from bigger and more basic human drive
issues of survival.
• Modern literature is predominantly written or audio-
visual while ancient literatures were spoken.


• • One thing that is very important to remember is
that the term “modern” poetry is used to describe
both recent poems and poetries written during
specific literary period referred to as “Modernism”.
However, here’s a shocker, traditional poets were
not “traditional” at the time. They just known for
inventing the forms we know and study today.
Philippines literature
• The diversity and richness of Philippine literature evolved
side by side with the country's history. This can best be
appreciated in the context of the country's pre-colonial
cultural traditions and the socio-political histories of its
colonial and contemporary traditions.

• The average Filipino's unfamiliarity with his
indigenous literature was largely due to what has been
impressed upon him: that his country was "discovered"
and, hence, Philippine "history" started only in 1521.

• So successful were the efforts of colonialists to blot
out the memory of the country's largely oral past that
present-day Filipino writers, artists and journalists are
trying to correct this inequity by recognizing the country's
wealth of ethnic traditions and disseminating them in
schools and in the mass media.

Japanese literature
• The Japanese language itself also shaped poetic devices and
forms. Japanese lacks a stress accent and meaningful rhymes (all
words end in one of five simple vowels), two traditional features of
poetry in the West. By contrast, poetry in Japanese is distinguished
from prose mainly in that it consists of alternating lines of five and
seven syllables; however, if the intensity of emotional expression is
low, this distinction alone cannot save a poem from dropping into
prose. The difficulty of maintaining a high level of poetic intensity
may account for the preference for short verse forms that could be
polished with perfectionist care. But however moving a tanka (verse
in 31 syllables) is, it clearly cannot fulfill some of the functions of
longer poetic forms, and there are no Japanese equivalents to the
great longer poems of Western literature, such as John Milton’s
Paradise Lost and Dante’s The Divine Comedy. Instead, Japanese
poets devoted their efforts to perfecting each syllable of their
compositions, expanding the content of a tanka by suggestion and
allusion, and prizing shadings of tone and diction more than
originality or boldness of expression.

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