This document discusses elements of Filipino poetry including form, language, and senses. It begins by explaining how poetry reflects a country's history, values, and emotions. It then discusses how early 20th century Filipino poetry focused on romanticism but became more formal over time as emphasis shifted to form and language. The document also categorizes different types of sensory imagery used in poetry like visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, and auditory. It notes that Filipino writers carefully consider diction and rhyme scheme in their poems.

1. POETRY OF THE
ARCHIPELAGO
It’s FORM, LANGUAGE AND SPEECH

2. INTRODUCTION
Poetry is a reflection of the country's history
and changing lifestyles, values, and situations.
Poems are full of emotion, so they reflect what
Filipinos are feeling at a given historical period.
Poems also communicate the people's hopes for
the future.

3. PHILIPPINE POETRY
Poetry in the Philippines is not different from its other
counterparts around the world. In the early 1900s, Filipino
poetry celebrated romanticism, and several poems about
love flourished. Eventually, as the years went on, poetry
became more formalist—the emphasis of the poetry is more
on the form and language that the poet used, rather than
the theme itself. Then, modern poetry sprouted, and
nowadays, writers are more adventurous in their craft.

5. SENSES AND IMAGES
Senses and images are used by the
writer to describe their
impressions of their topic or object
of writing. The writer uses
carefully chosen and phrased
words to create an imagery that
the reader can see through his or
her senses
The kinds of sense
impressions in poetry are
categorized in
mainly the following: visual
imagery (what the writer
wants you to see);
olfactory imagery (what the
writer wants you to smell);
gustatory imagery
(what the writer wants you
to taste); tactile imagery
(what the writer wants
you to feel); and auditory
imagery (what the writer
wants you to smell).

6. DICTION
Diction is another important
element in Filipino poetry. In fact,
Filipino writers are very careful of
the way they write and the words
they use to form their poems.
Diction is the denotative and
connotative meaning of the words
in a sentence, phrase, paragraph,
or poem.

7. RHYME SCHEME
Rhyme scheme is the way the
author arranges words, meters,
lines, and stanzas to create a
coherent sound when the poem is
read out loud. It may be formal or
informal, depending on the way
the poem was written by the poet.

9. GABU