Isang Dipang Langit - Deareth Joy L. Magbanua

1. Isang Dipang
Langit
Amado V. Hernandez
MAGBANUA DEARETH JOY
BSED- ENG 3

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Literature under the Republic
1946-1985
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Literature under the Republic
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• Educational Exchanged Program otherwise known as “Fulbright Program” was the key
to Philippine assimilation of US culture.
• This was the time when the Filipino artists, musicians and writers were given a chance to
to go to the US to learn about the country, they also were given lecturing privilege.
• The impact of this program can be seen in terms on the artworks and literature that
showed in their works that they are ale to keep up with the literary and artistic trends of
the US.
• They were introduced to what as called New criticism.

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Lázaro Francisco (1898-1980) – Bayang Nagpatiwakal(1923),
Ilaw sa Hilaga (1948), Maganda pa ang Daigdig (1956),
Daluyong(1962)
Constante Casabar (1929- 2000) – Dagiti Mariign iti
Parbangon (1957)
Genoveva Edroza-Matute (1915- 2009) – Ako’y
Isang Tinig (1952)
Alberto Florentino (1931-2018) – The World is
an Apple and Other Prized Plays (1959)

5. AMADO VERA HERNANDEZ
Born: September 13, 1903
Birthplace: Hagonoy, Bulacan
Died: March 24, 1970
Known as: Ka Amado, Rebeldeng Makata or Makata ng
Manggagawa
Influenced by: Benigno R. Ramos (leader of sakdal
movement)
Amado V. Hernandez was a poet, playwright, and
novelist, is among the Filipino writers who practiced
“committed art.” In his view, the function of the writer is to
act as the conscience of society and to affirm the greatness of
the human spirit in the face of inequity and oppression.
Hernandez’s contribution to the development of Tagalog
prose is considerable — he stripped Tagalog of its ornate
character and wrote in prose closer to the colloquial than the
“official” style permitted.
National Artist for
Literature

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Isang Dipang Langit
April 22, 1952
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Theme:
Social Concern
Romanticism
It bears the mark of romanticism traceable to Balagtas and the
stamp of social concern deriving from Rizal and other poets.

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Isang Dipang Langit
April 22, 1952
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Who is speaking? (Point of view)
 First person
To whom he speak?
 To himself
What is the speaker’s tone?
 He was faithful and hopeful that he would overcome his trials and would soon be free
from prison.

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Isang Dipang Langit
April 22, 1952
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Elements of the Poem
Measurement (Sukat)
 First stanza - 12 syllables in all lines
 Second stanza - 12 syllables in all lines
 Third stanza- 12 syllables in all lines
 Fourth stanza- 12 syllables in all lines
 Fifth stanza- 12 syllables in all lines
 Sixth stanza- 12 syllables in first three lines and 13 syllables in the fourth line.
 Seventh stanza- 12 syllables in all lines
 Eighth stanza- 12 syllables in all lines
 Ninth stanza- 12 syllables in all lines
 Tenth stanza- 12 syllables in all lines
 Eleventh stanza- 12 syllables in all lines

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Isang Dipang Langit
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Ako’y ipiniit ng linsil na puno
hangad palibhasang diwa ko’y piitin,
katawang marupok, aniya’y pagsuko,
damdami’y supil na’t mithiin ay supil.
Ikinulong ako sa kutang malupit:
bato, bakal, punlo, balasik ng bantay;
lubos na tiwalag sa buong daigdig
at inaring kahit buhay man ay patay.
Sa munting dungawan, tanging abot-malas
ay sandipang langit na puno ng luha,
maramot na birang ng pusong may sugat,
watawat ng aking pagkapariwara.
Sintalim ng kidlat ang mata ng tanod,
sa pintong may susi’t walang makalapit;
sigaw ng bilanggo sa katabing moog,
anaki’y atungal ng hayop sa yungib.
Ang maghapo’y tila isang tanikala
na kala-kaladkad ng paang madugo
ang buong magdamag ay kulambong luksa
ng kabaong waring lungga ng bilanggo.
Kung minsa’y magdaan ang payak na yabag,
kawil ng kadena ang kumakalanding;
sa maputlang araw saglit ibibilad,
sanlibong aninong iniluwa ng dilim.

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Isang Dipang Langit
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Kung minsan, ang gabi’y biglang magulantang
sa hudyat – may takas! – at asod ng punlo;
kung minsa’y tumangis ang lumang batingaw,
sa bitayang moog, may naghihingalo.
At ito ang tanging daigdig ko ngayon –
bilangguang mandi’y libingan ng buhay;
sampu, dalawampu, at lahat ng taon
ng buong buhay ko’y dito mapipigtal.
Nguni’t yaring diwa’y walang takot-hirap
at batis pa rin itong aking puso:
piita’y bahagi ng pakikilamas,
mapiit ay tanda ng di pagsuko.
Ang tao’t Bathala ay di natutulog
at di habang araw ang api ay api,
tanang paniniil ay may pagtutuos,
habang may Bastilya’y may bayang gaganti.
At bukas, diyan din, aking matatanaw
sa sandipang langit na wala nang luha,
sisikat ang gintong araw ng tagumpay…
layang sasalubong ako sa paglaya!
Bartolina ng Muntinlupa – Abril 22, 1952
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An Arm’s Length of Heaven
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Translated by: Blogspot
I was incarcerated by a cruel leader,
asking for the price of my crushed spirit,
the body is weak, so I must surrender,
if spirit is defeated it embraced defeat
I was cornered in a fortress of brute gallows:
stone, steel, bullet, guard’s enmity, the constant knife;
I was spewed out from the entire world of sorrows
And taken for dead when life has not escaped life
In a tiny window, all one can penetrate
is an arm’s length of heaven full of bitter tears,
selfish panorama or a wounded heart’s gate,
flag of my wantonness, kerchief of sneers.

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An Arm’s Length of Heaven
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As knife the thunder of guardsman’s rolling eyes,
Fixed on locked door no body dares the length;
A prisoner’s yell in the adjacent sty
Was as a cavern animal’s trapped in its strength.
The entire day was chained to the entire structure,
Dragged as steel ball by shod foot pulped and bloody;
The entire night is a tent of grief and injure,
by the casket which was the only sanctuary.
Once, simple steps trace the cordoned blockade,
The hooks of steel chains are scraping concrete;
under pale sun put out to dry and to degrade,
a thousand shadows spat out by darkest pit

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An Arm’s Length of Heaven
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Once the night was suddenly brought to a scare
by an alarm – an escape! – gunshots were flying;
Once the old bell was pealing out in black despair,
in the death chamber, someone’s breath is escaping.
And now this is my only constant universe -
Interred in prison, graveyard of the living;
a decade, or two, or all of the coming scores
of all of my life here consumed while I’m fading.
But my spirit shall conquer fear, ordeal
My blood veins shall still run, my blood flow’s still a stream:
A prison is but part of dealing with evil,
To be imprisoned is to crush surrender’s dream.

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An Arm’s Length of Heaven
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Gods and men are not forever asleep
the oppressed shall not be the oppressed of every chance,
this grave injustice has a battle cry to keep,
As long as there’s Bastille, a country exacts vengeance.
And tomorrow, in the same window, I shall see
from the arm’s length of heaven without a single tear,
the provident sun shall rise a shining victory ...
my freed self shall come down to greet my self free!

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Isang Dipang Langit
April 22, 1952
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Elements of the Poem
Imagery
 First stanza - tree
 Second stanza – stone and metal
 Third stanza- flag
 Fourth stanza- lightning and a door with key
 Fifth stanza- chains, mosquito net and coffin
 Sixth stanza- chains, sun and shadows
 Seventh stanza- bell
 Eighth stanza- cemetery
 Ninth stanza- none
 Tenth stanza- none
 Eleventh stanza-golden sun

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Isang Dipang Langit
April 22, 1952
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Elements of the Poem
Figure of Speech (Tayutay)
 Simile (Simili)
Sintalim ng mga kidlat ang mga mata ng tanod. (As knife the thunder of guardsman’s rolling
eyes.)
 Hyperbole (Hyberboli)
Sa munting dungawan tanging abot- malas ay sandipang langit na puno ng luha. (In a tiny
window, all one can penetrate is an arm’s length of heaven full of bitter tears.)
 Metaphor
At dito ang tanging daigdig ko ngayon… Bilangguang mandi’y libingan ng buhay. (But my
spirit shall conquer fear, ordeal.My blood veins shall still run, my blood flow’s still a stream)

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Isang Dipang Langit
April 22, 1952
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The poem was written to describe the situation inside the
prison. The lines signify the grief or the urge to have a
freedom. The pain they have and the struggles living inside.
The poem is more on descriptive one since in describe mainly
the life inside the prison, the experiences of the prisoners, the
struggle and hardship that they face every day and it discussed
that they should learn to fight for their rights.

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The mind of poet often performs miracles
a few coarse-grained words, apprehend
become bullets and roses.
-Amado V. Hernandez

19. DEARETH JOY L. MAGBANUA
BSED-ENG3

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