The document provides instructions on how to analyze a poem, including appreciating its theme, interpreting its message based on elements, and summarizing the key details. It then provides biographical information on Maximo D. Ramos, a former head of the English Department at the Philippine Normal University and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of the East, before presenting the poem "I" which explores the experiences of living from birth to returning to God through old age.

1.  Appreciate reading poem.
 Give the theme of the text.
 Analyze the material based
on the elements.
 Interpret the message of the
poem.

2. Maximo D. Ramos
Born in San Narciso, Zambales in
1910.
He was a recipient of the Hugo H.
Miller Memorial Scholar where he
took his M. A. in English at the
Indiana University.

3. He was a former head of the English
Department at the Philippine Normal
University (PNU)
Became Dean of the College of
Liberal arts of the University of the
East.

4. I
They have known the tingling
freshness
Of the coming forth from God:
the sweetness of mother’s breast
The ringing sinewiness of growth,
The fell of the loved one’s cheek, the
song
Of April suns and showers…

5. And these will know
The quiet dimming down of age
And the silent wonder
Of the going back
To God.