Anthony L. Tan is a Filipino poet, fiction writer, and educator born in 1947 in Sulu. He received his bachelor's, master's, and PhD in English from Silliman University, where he edited the journal Sands and Coral and was a member of the English faculty for over a decade. He has taught at several universities and currently teaches at the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology. Tan has won several literary awards including the Palanca Award for poetry and essays. The analyzed poem "Sunset View from a House in Jasaan" expresses Tan's appreciation for the place of Jasaan through his powerful description, while also conveying a sense of melancholy.

2. Sunset View from a
House in Jasaan
-Anthony L. Tan-

4.  Anthony Tan was born on 26th August 1947,
Siasi [Muddas], Sulu. His degrees AB
English, 1968, MA Creative Writing, 1975,
and Ph.D. English Lit., 1982 were all obtained
from the Silliman University where he
edited Sands and Coral, 1976. For more than
a decade, he was a member of the English
faculty at SU and regular member of the
panel of critics in the Silliman Writers
Workshop.

5. He taught briefly at the DLSU and was
Chair of the English Dept. at MSU-Iligan
Institute of Technology where he continues
to teach. A member of the Iligan Arts
Council, he helps Jaime An Lim and
Christine Godinez-Ortega run the Iligan
Writers Workshop/Literature Teachers
Conference. He also writes fiction and
children's stories.

6. He has won a number of awards, among
them, the Focus Award for poetry, the
Palanca 1st prize for Poems for Muddas in
1993; also the Palanca for essay. Among
his works are The Badjao Cemetery and
Other Poems, 1985 and Poems
for Muddas, Anvil, 1996.

8. Sunset View from
a House in Jasaan
-Anthony L. Tan-

10. His poem is a product of his powerful
mind. As a traveller, he showed his
appreciation of the place-Jasaan through
his poem.
The place reminds him of the melancholy
in life he has been.

11. Have a good day !
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