SONNET I

POEM BY JOSE GARCIA VILLA

PHILIPPINES

MARIANO MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY

WORLD LITERATURE
EXPLORING AND UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION
THROUGH LITERARY PIECES LAOAG CITY

MIDYEAR CLASS 2016-2017

MARK ANTHONY T. JUAN

INSTRUCTOR III

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PRE-READING: ELEMENTS OF POETRY
STRUCTURE
STANZA
FORM (lyric, narrative, descriptive)

SOUND PATTERNS
RHYME (end, internal)

RHYTHM (sound pattern)

METER (systematic rhythm)

WORD SOUNDS (alliteration, assonance, etc)

MEANING
CONNOTATION/DENOTATION
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/SYMBOLISMS
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PRE-READING
Share your thoughts:
poem

sonnet

seagull
bell

bow

Philippines
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PRE-READING
Literary Genre: POEM (SONNET)
 from Italian ‘sonetto’ meaning little song

contains 14 lines and follows a strict rhyme

scheme and specific structure

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PRE-READING
Author’s Bio: JOSE GARCIA VILLA
 1914-1997
a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story
writer, and painter
he introduced the ‘reversed consonant
rhyme scheme’ in writing poetry
he also introduced the use of punctuations,
especially commas
his penname is DOVEGLION
PHL National Artist for Literature (1973)
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PRE-READING
Country of Origin: Philippines
an archipelago in Southeast Asia
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READING PROPER
Strategy:
Poetry Reading
First Reading
Intellectual Discussion
Second Reading
Aesthetic Discussion
Third Reading
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First, a poem must be magical,
Then musical as a seagull.
It must be a brightness moving
And hold secret a bird’s flowering
It must be slender as a bell,
And it must hold fire as well.
It must have the wisdom of bows
And it must kneel like a rose.
It must be able to hear
The luminance of dove and deer.
It must be able to hide
What it seeks, like a bride.
And over all I would like to hover
God, smiling from the poem’s cover.
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POST READING
Intellectual Discussion
What is animate creatures did the writer use to compare to a poem?
How about the inanimate objects?
Why do you think the author used both the animate and inanimate to illustrate
what a poem is?
SONNET I | Jose Garcia Villa
First, a poem must be magical,
Then musical as a seagull.
It must be a brightness moving
And hold secret a bird’s flowering
It must be slender as a bell,
And it must hold fire as well.
It must have the wisdom of bows
And it must kneel like a rose.
It must be able to hear
The luminance of dove and deer.
It must be able to hide
What it seeks, like a bride.
And over all I would like to hover
God, smiling from the poem’s cover.
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POST READING
Aesthetic Discussion
Describe the structure of the poem/sonnet as to stanza and form.
Identify the rhyming words used and the rhyme scheme.
 What figurative devices are evident? Cite lines.
Paraphrase each couplet. [paraphrase: express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or

something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity]
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ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
The activity will be provided after the discussion of Ars Poetica.