3. Contemporary
Story
creates imaginary characters & situations
that depict our world & society. It focuses
on themes of growing up and confronting
personal & social problems. This genre
portrays characters coming to understand
themselves & others
4. OF A CONTEMPORARY STORY
Characteristics
Reality-based stories with strong
characters and a believable story.
Settings usually keep to the current or
modern era.
Contemporary writers not
only experiment with
various degrees of fiction
and non-fiction. They also
experiment with how to
express their ideas, and
they rely less on
traditional narrative forms
or genres.
7. Local Contemporary Stories
·Stupid is Forever - by Miriam Defensor
Santiago
·Noli Me Tangere - by Dr. Jose Rizal
·Florante at Laura – by Fancisco Balagtas
·Ibong Mandaragit – by Armando V. Hernandez
·PO- ON – by F. Sionil Jose
·The Woman who had two navels – by Nick
Joaquin
·Banaag at Sikat – by Lope K. Santos
·Illustrado – by Miguel Syjuco
·Dekada ’70 – by Lualhati Bautista
·ABNKKBSNPLAKO? – by Bob Ong
·Bata Bata Pano ka Ginawa?
8. Contemporary
Poetry
contemporary poetry is poetry written after
the start of the 1920s, especially poetry
having to do with modern literary genres
such as modernism and post-modernism
9. OF A CONTEMPORARY POEMS
Characteristics
a specific series of traits and literacy tools
inconsistent “meter variations upon standard rhyme”
ideas rather than overtly stating ideas and is grounded in
the image
11. Foreign Contemporary Poems
·Black Ice and Rain - by Michael Donaghy
·A Century Later – by Imtiaz Dharker
·The Shout – by Simon Armitage
·Text – by Carol Ann Duffy
·Rain – by Don Paterson
·The Dollhouse - A.E Stallings
·Dunt: A poem for Dried- Up- River –
by Alice Oswald
·Webcam the World – Heather Mchugh
·Prayer- Ian Hamilton
·Home- by Warsan Shire
12. Local Contemporary Poems
·The Return – by Edith Tiempo
·Exhibition Notes – by Chonchita Cruz
·Naming the Ruins – by Dina Roma
·Pali- Palitong Posporo- by Benilda Santos
·Flowing On (1998)
·Love Woman (19980
·Lady Polyster: Poems Past and Present (1993)
