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Florante at Laura by Ms. Glenda Oris
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FLORANTE AT LAURA
Sanggunian: Tagalog Poetry (Bienvenido Lumbera)
Metrical Romance
Little is known of the actual circumstances surrounding the emergence of the metrical romance as a major genre in Tagalog poetry. … The difficulty in fixing definite dates in regard to the evolution of the metrical romance lies in the fact that examples did not begin to see print until the nineteenth century.
Metrical Romance
In talking about the Tagalog narrative poems, it is best to adopt Fansler’s generic term “metrical romance,” because these poems fall under two different species: the corrido and the awit. For this classification and clarification, we are indebted to Epifanio de los Santos who pointed out that corridos are octosyllabic poems, which might be sung to the tune of the pasion, while the awits are dodecasyllabic narratives sung in an “elegiac and pleading manner.”
Appeal of the Metrical Romance
Fantasy world – refuge for a people seeking relief from the rigors of foreign rule
Growing urbanization – a groping for sophistication
Restoration of Literacy
Courtly Love
Love of a highly-specialized sort, whose characteristics may be enumerated as Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of Love. The lover is always abject. … his love is represented as a despairing and tragical emotion – or almost despairing, for he is saved from complete wanhope by his faith in the God of Love … (112)
…courtly love, Tagalog-style – love that is unattainable, that brings suffering, that ennobles the lover, that rules the lover’s life. (114)
Baltazar – ‘enlightened poet’
Use of Footnotes
Greek mythology
Roman mythology
Other Classical texts
Anachronisms
Setting (place vs. time)
Religion (Moor?)
Education
Location of Florante’s native land
Thematic Design: Love
Courtly love Passionate love Filial love Patriotic love
Motif: Illusion
Adolfo
Laura
Flerida
Aladin
Florante
Initiation Story
The HERO of initiation/quest stories
Formalization of Tradition
Narrative Poetry
Courtly Love
Emotion as determinant
Expansion of the use of figurative language
Dodecasilabiko
4 lines per stanza
Aphorisms