Interpretation of the Poem
The poem want to emphasized of what are the environment of cactus compare to other plants and how it does survive despite of all the obstacles that the cactus encountering.
The Quarrel
Andres Cristobal Cruz
Andres Cristobal Cruz was born in Dagupan City, Pangasinan. He holds a degree in Bachelor of Arts major in English at the University of the Philippines. He joined the staff of Liwayway Publishing after his graduation. He was chosen one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYU) for his contributions to Philippine Literature. He received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1964 for his short stories. His selection “The Quarrel” won first prize in 1952-53 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.
He portrayed the character of his wife, Nina as a good housewife and a fast housekeeper. However as good as she was, she often got into conflict with their landlady because of her inhuman attitude toward the couple.
It is a Short Story, which is a kind of Prose. Short Story is an artistic form of prose fiction which centered on a single main incident whose aim is to produce a single dominant impression. Its qualities are economy, compression, brevity and emphasis.
· Elements or Ingredients of Prose
1. Characters/Characterization
Nina- a good housewife and fast housekeeper
Ismael- a good husband
Missis Smith-cruel lady
2. Setting
Apartment
3. Plot
a. Beginning Action
Ismael had a nightmare and her wife comfort him and they did not sleep until morning came. On the second floor, Mrs. Smith, their landlady was up there and had her rheumatism, the couple talked about Mrs. Smith.
b. Rising Action
As usual Mrs. Smith was barking out order to the men who were to take out her jeeps for the routes. Imael had his breakfast and they talkd about of what they are facing. The mother of Nina decided to live her daughter with Ismael when she found out about the baby that Nina going to have, while listening to the music through the radiophono that they bought after their child died.
c. Conflict
Mrs. Smith came in by the backdoor, her care tapping against the polished rungs of the low stairs, and asking for the rent because it was due on that day, but Nina and Ismael apologized for they cannot pay for the rent and they are asking for an extension. But Mrs. Smith insisted that they should pay, and she did not listen to any reasons of the couple.
d. Climax
Until it came to physical hurting between Nina and Mrs. Smith, all the people around them appeared.
e. Denouement
Mrs. Smith realized what she did to the couple, in a violent way just only to pay the rent.
f. End
D. Theme
Quarrel
Sentence Outline
I. Ismael had nightmare
1. With a half shut eyes he tried in his mind to make out other things of the objects in the still dim room.
2. He heard the first trip dragging itself in the distance, leaving three tortured shrill whistle blasts and the irregular rumbling of iron wheels to echo in whose consciousness lay listening.
II. The couple backfight Mrs. Smith.
1. “She’s not very old nor very ugly “Ismael said “forty or forty-five?”
2. “I wonder if her husband still remember her, “Nina said in a sarcastic voice.
III. The jeeps of Mrs. Smith
1. Ismael stood out in the sunlight , wiping his face with a towel in his mind reciting the word “Too much”.
2. He could hear the jeeps warning up on the small street in front of the Accessoria.
3. As usual Mrs. Smith barking out orders to the men who were to take out her jeeps for the routes.
IV. Ismael had its breakfast
1. He likes the eggs to be his breakfast.
2. He took up the clean shirt lying on the already made up bed.
3. He smiled, Nina was such a fast housekeeper.
V. Mrs. Smith asking for the rent
1. Nina apologized and seconded by Ismael for they don’t have yet the mone.
2. Mrs. Smith insisted.
3. Mrs. Smith start to have her oral defamation.
4. Mrs. Smith realized her violence approach to the couple.
Ink
Guillermo Castillo
Pangasinan
I
Ink
Bottled in a glass prism
Meaningless in itself
Black and mute without a language
Silent but strongly-urged
To speak
2
Ink
Chance-impressed on white
Inarticulate unintelligible chaotic
Welcome on the bareness of white
But still foreign
Excommunicate
3
But ink
Pen-lifted pen-impressed
On blank white paper
Will-ordered
Interprets intensifies clarifies
Expresses
Life
Interpretation:
At 1st stanza of the poem, it expresses that the ink if it will not remove on his bottle, it is useless.
At 2nd stanza, when the ink is poured into a white paper it has already its life but it cannot be understood.
At 3rd stanza, but if the ink will put into pen, it can already expressed, clearly interpretation of what the holder of the pen want to write.
People of Consequence
Ines Taccad-Cammayo
Isabela
Ines Taccad-Cammayo was born in Isabela and became a university scholar during her College days. She took up a degree in AB Journalism and MA in her selection” People of Consequence” was a first prize winner in the Carlos Memorial Awards for Literature in 1969. Some of her articles were published in the former Sunday Times Free Press, Graphics and focus.
· Elements of the story
I. Characters
Camus- houseboy of a German haciendero
Meding- lived in the Capitolyo for almost four years as servant of the of the Mayors family.
II. Settings
III. Plot
Beginning Action
When Camus was a young man, he has been the houseboy of a German haciendero. The German is a Bachelor and he often told Camus that his punishments were for his own good became he must learn to shed his indolent and clumsy ways if he ever hoped to amount to anything. Camus and his wife were themselves becoming people of consequence. They now owned best in the barrio which other lakeside Village lay at the base of a high chit which the people called Munting Azul because a perpetual haze clung to its summit. Meding, his wife leaved the hard driving manners of towns folk. It constantly amazed her how she could make idle time yield profit, and even more astonishing, how having made profit she held on to it.
Rising Action
All their life sentiment had very little meaning perhaps because
Love had never figured in the courtship. Camus married Meding because his father and her father had agreed on the union.
Conflict
The superintendent meet camus as Cook. It was insult for the part of camus, but he continue to disguised as cook even if he’s not.
Denouement
Every step was taking him nearer to the Superintendent’s house and how could he go to him without the chuckins of his throat was parched the vendors thrust their wares at him again. Pinipig, kroopek, Balut, Mais Laga above the voices a tinkling bell now attracted him. He turned around, an ice cream, they exchanged a look of understanding.
End
He watched the vendor ,pat layers of muti-colored ice cream into the cone yellow, violet, white. A final, careful pat of chocolate. He waved away the insistent hands and wares of the other peddlers. . Slow he drew the money from his pocket, picked the bill most frayed and gave it to the vendor. As he licked the ice cream savoring the taste, he stretched out his hands for the change, all was quiet in the plaza now, and suddenly he realized that he had almost twenty pesos to spend as he pleased. He squinted craftly about him, seeing for the first time the loud speakers talking to him alone. Yes he must tell his wife how pleased the good lady had been, how truly live a gentlemen and friend the superintendent was.
The Rural Maid
Fernando M. Maramag
Fernando M. Maramag was born on January 21, 1893 in Ilagan, Isabela. He was a well known-poet and a newspaperman during his time.
Thy glance, sweet maid when first we met
Has left a heart that aches for thee
I feel the pain of fond regret
Thy heart, perchance is not for me
We parted: though we met no more,
My dreams are dreams of thee fair mad
I think of thee, my thoughts implore
The honor my lips on thine are laid
Forgive thee words that love impart,
And pleading, bare the poets breast
And if a rose with thorns thou art
Yet on my breast that rose may rest
I know not what to name thy charms
Thou art half human, half divine
But if I would hold thee in my arms
I know both heaven and earth were mine
Interpretation
At the 1st stanza, the writer saw a rural maid. And at their first met, he fall in love at their first sight and he know that the rural maid is already taken.
At the second stanza, they departed each other and meet no more, his fantasy to the rural maid is just only a dream that it can’t possibly happen.
At the third stanza ,the writetr ask for forgiveness for the love that he feels to the rural maid and the rose that he refers in the rural maid and if that rose thorns in his breast he can now take his rest.
At the fourth stanza, the writer describes the rural maid like a Goddess, and if he will be given a chance to hold in his arms, he feels that he owns the heaven and earth.
Frustrated Wish
Translated by Prof. Carolina A. Arceo
Carolina A. Arceo is an assistant professor of English and Filipino at the Tarlac State University. A former coordinator of the Office of Public Affairs of the same University and a translator of Panrehiyong Sentro ng Wikang Filipino. (PSWF) Region III.
So happy and trusted
These people in love
For their sorrow they have
Somebody to share
My destiny that’s so lonely
Am I alone with this
For I said I wont think twice
Because suffering I am now
If ever I fall in love to a lady
There’s nothing I could see
That I have my counterpart
Time I shall forget when I was born
Better is a thousand years
If at any birth was gone
I should have tried to explain
But tongue-tied I was
For I could clearly see
That I won’t be lucky
And it really please me much
That my love for you know
So I swear and promise you.
Interpretation
At the 1st stanza, the lucky are the persons which is inlove, and when they feel sorrow or sadness, there are some people around them, that ready to listen with them.
At the second stanza, the writer emphasized that the man in the poem is lovely being alone and he is blaming himself that in making decision, she is only think once not twice.
At the 3rd stanza, if there will be a chance that the man will fall in love to a lady, he will grab the chance and make their relationship strong.
At the fourth stanza, he forget already the time that he was born, and he wants during his birth he will that he already gone.
At the fifth stanza, he tried to explain, but he can’t because he already foresee that he will not be lucky.
At the last stanza, the man is pleasing the girl that he loves is only the girl that he want to love and offered his life.
Ridiculous Welcome
Translated by Prof. Carolina A. Arceo
