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In this poem, it is the Filipino youth who are the protagonists, whose "prodigious genius" making use of that education to build the future, was the "bella esperanza de la patria mía" (beautiful hope of the motherland). Spain, with "pious and wise hand" offered a "crown's resplendent band, offers to the sons of this Indian land."
In 2007, columnist Geronimo L. Sy wrote in the Manila Times that the Philippines didn't have a national motto (which he called a "national slogan") and that many of the societal problems plaguing the country were because of a lack of common direction that a national motto would embody, [8] despite the Flag and Heraldic Code being made law nine ...
"Sa Aking Mga Kabatà" (English: To My Fellow Youth) is a poem about the love of one's native language written in Tagalog. It is widely attributed to the Filipino national hero José Rizal, who supposedly wrote it in 1868 at the age of eight. [1]
Biag ni Lam-ang (lit. ' The Life of Lam-ang ') is an epic story of the Ilocano people from the Ilocos region of the Philippines.It is notable for being the first Philippine folk epic to be recorded in written form, and was one of only two folk epics documented during the Philippines' Spanish Colonial period, along with the Bicolano epic of Handiong.
Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido (14 June 1912 – 7 February 1994 [1]) was a Filipina linguist, writer, and poet who wrote of the Filipino woman’s experience using the English language [2] during and after the American colonial period in the Philippines.
It was commissioned during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and intended to supplant Lupang Hinirang (then sung to its English translation as the Philippine Hymn) as the national anthem. It was also sung by the members of the Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon , however, the words bear sentiments against the Japanese occupiers and the ...
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This was the first time the oral epics have ever been recorded in print, and it was also the first instance of the Maranao language being published in the Latin script. [9] [11] [12] When you pass by the houses of the Maranaws at night, you can hear them singing folk songs or reciting poems that are beautiful and strange.