On National Teacher Day, meet the 2024-25 Kenan Fellows
E 105 walking free - hyperbole
1. Del Rio, Pat
Eugenio, Arah
Laxamana, Yachel
Robes, Camille
Rodriguez, Ysabel
2. Hyperbole
Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical
device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke
strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but
is not meant to be taken literally. Hyperbole are
exaggerations to create emphasis or effect.
Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
4. EXAMPLES
“The bag weighed a ton.”
“I called you a million times!”
“It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets”
“She is so dumb, she thinks Taco Bell is a Mexican
phone company”
That joke is so old, the last time I heard it I was
riding on a dinosaur.
5. HYPERBOLE POEM
What Am I?
I’m bigger than the entire earth
More powerful than the sea
Though a million, billion have tried
Not one could ever stop me.
I control each person with my hand
and hold up fleets of ships.
I can make them bend to my will
with one word from my lips.
I’m the greatest power in the world
in this entire nation.
No one should ever try to stop
a child’s imagination.
8. Gemino H. Abad
Feb. 15, 1939 –Manila
Also known as “Jimmy”
Poet and literary critic
Born in Cebu to the acclaimed Cebuano poet and Professor
Antonio Abad.
Studied Bachelor Of Arts Degree in English from UP in 1964
Ph.D. in English Literature from University of Chicago in 1970
http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Gemin
o_H._Abad
9. Literary works
Gemino Abad's Published Books:
Poetry
Fugitive Emphasis, 1973
Poems and Parables, 1988
In Ordinary Time: Poems, Parables, Poetics, 2004
Poems and Critical Essays
In Another Light, 1976
The Space Between, 1985
Father and Daughter, 1996
Poetry and Fiction (in the same book)
A Makeshift Sun, 2001
"Care of Light: New Poems and Found", 2010
10. Literary works
Fiction and Essays (in the same book)
Orion’s Belt and Other Writings, 1996
Literary Criticism
A Formal Approach to Lyric Poetry, 1978
Getting Real: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry, 2004
Creative Non-fiction
State of Play (essays), 1990
http://www.poemhunter.com/gemino-abad/biography/
12. What is in the poem?
- 24 lines
- 6 stanzas
- 6 quatrains
- free verse
- 1st person/persona/speaker
13. VOCABULARY
1st
Detractor - a person who disparages or regards
someone or something as being of little worth.
2nd
Motion – the action or process of moving or of
changing place or position; movement.
3rd
Clasp- A firm grasp or grip
4th
Underfoot -under the foot or feet; on the ground;
underneath or below.
14. VOCABULARY
5th
Sacred-devoted or dedicated to some religious
purpose.
6th
Shudder (noun) – An almost pleasurable sensation of
fright
(verb) – Shake/ Tremble convulsively, as
from fear or excitement
15. Walking Free, from Father and Daughter, 1996
I no longer write of loneliness,
It has enough food in the world - personification;
Nor about love either,
There are enough detractors.
He stopped writing about loneliness cause there is just a
lot of sadness in the world
Also stopped writing about love because there are a lot of
detractors
Meaning of detractor: a person who disparages or regards
someone or something as being of little worth
16. 2nd stanza
Why not, I said to myself,
Just walk about, without aim?
It may be, not having a subject,
The joy of motion creates itself - personification.
To walk without target or aiming something. You
don’t have to be in a hurry to find your purpose in life.
You just have to go with the flow because as you go
along the way, you will find real happiness and
contentment.
17. 3rd stanza
My feet joyfully remember their past - personification,
Tickle of grass, bruise of stones,
Clasp of mud – all the earth’s pull
And possessiveness.
As he go on to the journey of life, he will always
remember the things that happened to him. The
good memories and even the bad memories.
It made him a better person because after everything
that happened to him, he never refuses to look back.
18. 4th stanza
Now I feel quite bare, exposed,
My thoughts underfoot in lushest green,
And no words to think me,
Nor myself distract.
The speaker tells us that he’s whole being is stripped
off away from him and he can no longer think of
anything.
19. 5th stanza
I hear the birds call to one another - personification;
Their inhuman cries gladden my soul,
They mark a boundary of the sacred
That in a distant time pierced my feet.
He can remembered the person he used to be. Their
human cries, gladden my soul; mirrors worries that
caused him pain. Upon hearing it, he just took the
negative things as a lesson that he learned from his life.
20. 6th stanza
A light breeze touches my face,
I feel the longing beneath human speech,
Like ashes upon my tongue - hyperbole,
And my feet shudder where they fall.
The line “A light breeze touches my face,“ speaks about
relief or feeling of freedom to write anything that he
desires
“I feel the longing beneath human speech” – He’s eager
to express his feelings through words and describe it
“Like ashes upon my tongue,
And my feet shudder where they fall”
The stanza shows his excitement through ought
21. Collective
understanding
Be spontaneous, write what you feel and freely
express it
The poem is about living “freely”: free from the past
and slowly moving on; continue life with a clear
mind. Do what you want to do; go out, have fun,
make mistakes and carry on.
The speaker wants to give the reader a positive
outlook in life. Though challenges may arise, s/he’ll
face the problems without thinking twice.
