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- 2. August 5, 1908 Simeon Villa and Guia Garcia University of the Philippines Integrated School University of the Philippines High School Pre-Medical course ( UP) Pre-Law course Wines burg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
- 3. February 5, 1997 Age of 88 St. Vincent Hospital in the Greenwich Village area “Cerebral stroke and Multilobar Pneumonia“ February 10 St John’s Cemetery in NewYork
- 4. 1946 Rosemarie Lamb Sons Randal and Lance Grandchildren Jordan Villa Sara Villa Stokes Travis Villa Nieces Ruby Precilla Milagros Villanueva Maria Luisa Cohen Maria Villanueva
- 5. Philippine Short Stories Best 25 Short Stories of 1928 in 1929 Footnote to Youth Tales of the Philippines in 1933 Many Voices in 1939 Dovealion in 1941 Have Come, Am Here in 1942 Volume Two The Dovealion Book of Philippine Poetry The Portable Villa (The Essential Villa)
- 13. 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.
Editor's Notes
- Jose Garcia Villa was a Filipino poet, short-story writer, painter, and literary critic who was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines for literature in 1973. He was known for being one of the renowned “artsakists” of his time who believed that art should be for art’s sake. And although he advised his students that poems are “written with words, not ideas,” he released poems such as The Bashful One, which consists only of a comma, and, The Emperor’s New Sonnet, which contains nothing at all, other than the title. And of course “ First a poem must be a magical” it is an instructional poem about writing a poem. He is also popular for his extensive use of punctuation marks, most especially commas. He puts commas after every word, making the reader pause for every word, resulting in slowing the pace of poem. This leads to what Villa called “a lineal dignity of pace and movement“.
- Villa was born on August 5, 1908 His parents were Simeon Villa and Guia Garcia He graduated from University of the Philippines Integrated School and University of the Philippines High School in 1925 Villa enrolled on a Pre-Medical course in the University of the Philippines, but then switched to Pre-Law course. However, he realized that his true passion was in the arts. Villa first tried painting, but then turned into creative writing after reading Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.
- On February 5, 1997, at the age of 88, Jose was found in a coma in his New York apartment and was rushed to St. Vincent Hospital in the Greenwich Village area. His death two days later, February 7, was attributed to "cerebral stroke and multilobar pneumonia". He was buried on February 10 in St. John's Cemetery in New York, wearing a Barong Tagalog
- In 1946 Villa married Rosemarie Lamb, with whom he had two sons, Randall and Lance. They annulled ten years later. He also had three grandchildren, Jordan Villa, Sara Villa Stokes and Travis Villa. Villa was especially close to his nieces, Ruby Precilla, Milagros Villanueva, Maria Luisa Cohen and Maria Villanueva.
- As an editor, Villa first published Philippine Short Stories: Best 25 Short Stories of 1928 in 1929, an anthology of Filipino short stories written in English literature English that were mostly published in the literary magazine Philippine Free Press for that year. His first collection of short stories that he had written were published under the title Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others in 1933; while in 1939, Villa published Many Voices, his first collection poems, followed by Poems by Doveglion in 1941. Other collections of poems include Have Come, Am Here (1942) and Volume Two (1949; the year he edited The Doveglion Book of Philippine Poetry in English from 1910). Three years later, he released a follow-up for The Portable Villa entitled The Essential Villa.
- For this presentation, we make an analysis on tree of his great works: The Bashful ones , First, A Poem Must Be Magical and The Emperor New Sonnet These poems exhibit his unusual style in writing poetry, thus giving us a whole new approach in reading poetry. In this presentation, We would be analyzing the poems one by one to see what differences his style made on taking poetry.
- Commas are used to pause, usually for emphasis or division in a sentence. It can mean hesitance, prudence, delay or whatever that may cause discontinuity.But right after the comma, there is always something that follows, a continuation
- For me the comma is in a position where it seem unimportant since the most memorable parts of a piece are usually in the first and last portion. Because we read left to right, from top to bottom and the comma is located where one would most likely to miss it.
- The bashful one, the comma, is in literal terms that simply means the shy little punctuation mark.
- So the bashful one may simply refer to a poem about human nature characterized by a punctuation mark.
- Now if we were asked if we were a punctuation mark Which one would we be? COMMA - pause in a sentence EXCLAMATION - EXPRESSION QUESTION MARK - Inquisitive APOSTROPHE – possession or omission/short cut COLON – Introducing list of items OR SEMICOLON – indicating pause of two clause I personally think that I am semicolon because I pause but then I continue. You classmates which punctuation mark would you be?
- Now we go to his second poem titled First, A Poem Must Be Magical. This poem is a presentation of the characteristics of a great poem. Basically, it is an instructional poem about writing a poem. It is presented in a direct manner where in it already stated its main point on the first line clearly that a poem must be magical. Then other characteristics in connection with being magical followed. Notice that the structure of the poem has the traditional rhyme scheme of two consecutive lines: A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D, E, E, F, F, G, G. The imageries, choices of words and figures of speech suggested literal meanings. The structure and the technique made the poem easy to decode. The poem turned out to be an informative one because of the over-all way of writing it. Every comma has a purpose. Putting it after every word has a purpose. The structure, the choices of words, the figures of speech and the imageries all contribute to the over-all meaning of the poem.
- The third poem is the emperor’s new sonnet and here what this poem looks like. The Emperor’s New Sonnet, which contains nothing at all, other than the title. There is no beautiful weaving of words, and it seems like the poet is mocking the readers by telling them to accept the blankness of poetry Oftentimes we are too quick to suppress our own judgments, for fear that other people may find us “less-cultured” or even downright stupid if we would not agree with them. In effect, we no longer practice our critical thinking, thinking that anyway, there are authorities who can decide for us, and we wouldn’t mind being enslaved to their judgments because we can readily dismiss that they are right. However, this shouldn’t be the case, and The Emperor’s Sonnet tells us this in its own eccentric way. It plays on how readers would think of it, on whether the blank space is a poem or not. Whether we are still debating with ourselves if this is a poem or not, it is undeniable that Villa’s The Emperor’s New Sonnet shall continue to provoke and baffle its readers for many years to come. Personally as a normal reader i can’t easily accept if this poem is really a poem or not. Maybe if im a real poetic reader I may imagine many things when I look at his poem.