Poetry: Gabu Flashcards
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Who is the author of the poem
Carlos A. Angeles
State at least two pieces of information about Angeles
Graduated from Rizal High in 1938
Various universities in Pre Med and Pre Law
-One semester in Ateneo De Manila
- two at Up in 1941(Member of the Up Writers Club)
Genre of Gabu
Philosophical (Existentialist) Lyric Poem
Existentialist
Personal emotion/feelings
Persona
(First person)
Probably someone on the beach at Gabu watching the rough sea, contemplating life.
Life can be as restless as the sea,
Temporal but desires permanence
What is Gabu?
A place in Ilocos Norte near the sea. Often where typhoons occur, places like these are affected.
Explain the first stanza:
The battering restleness of the sea
Insists a tidal fury upon the beach
At Gabu, and its pure consistency
Havocs, the wasteland hard within its reach
The sea is restless and can be destructive
Battering
Destructive
Restleness
Impermanent
Sea
Symbolizes life
Havocs
Destroy
Give you ideas about the 2nd stanza
Brutal the daylong bashing of its heart
Against the seascape where, for miles around
Farther than sight itself, the rocks stones part
And drop into the elemental wound
The turmoil of the sea is continuous and powerful
Brutal bashing
Symbolizes life chaos
Elemental wound
Depth of the sea
Write your statement for the 3rd stanza:
The waste of centuries is grey and dead And neutral where the sea has beached it’s brine, where the spilt salt of its heart lies spread
Among the dark habiliments of time.
Time bears the “spilt salt” (badluck) of life
Waste of centuries
Past
Spilt salt
Badluck
Saltiness of the sea
Describe its darkness/deadness
4th stanza: what is your opinion
The vital splendor misses
For here at Gabu where the ageless tide recurs
All things forfeited are most loved and dear
The brilliance necessary for life is not there because in life even the most important things are lost
Vital splendor
Brilliance, necessary of life
Misses
Isn’t there, absence
All the things most loved and dear
The most important things
Last line : What can you say about it?
It is the sea that pursues a habit of shores.
-Waves show that the sea is constantly moving, but always towards the shore
-Life is bounded by time, always moving, but we all desire a stable and eternal ending
