PHILIPPINE
LITERATURE
Prepared by:
PAMELA FRITZ B. BRIONES, LPT
THE PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD
✣ Existed before the Spanish occupation
✣ Oral in nature
✣ Full of lessons and ideas about life, its blessings, and its
consequences
✣ Contains ideas from birth to the grave
✣ The sources are usually the local native town folk
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forms
1. ORAL LITERATURE 3. FOLK TALES
✣ Riddles Myths
✣ Proverbs Legends
Fables
2. FOLK SONGS Epics
✣ Lullabies
✣ Drinking songs
✣ Love songs
✣ Songs of death
✣ Religious songs
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ORAL LITERATURE
RIDDLES
✣ These are the statements that contain superficial words,
but they function figuratively, and are in the form of
questions
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ORAL LITERATURE
PROVERBS
✣ These are statements that are considered as wise.
✣ Usually given by parents or elders of the community
✣ “Experience is the best teacher.”
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FOLK SONGS
✣ Usually contain ideas on aspirations, hopes, everyday
life and expressions of love for loved ones
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Folk songs
LULLABIES
✣ Locally known as the ‘HELE’
✣ Sung to put babies to sleep
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Folk songs
DRINKING SONGS
✣ Locally known as ‘TAGAY’ and are sung during
drinking sessions
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Folk songs
LOVE SONGS
✣ Known as ‘HARANA’
✣ Can also be called ‘Courtship Songs’
✣ Used by the young men to capture the heart of the girl
that they love
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Folk songs
RELIGIOUS SONGS
✣ Songs or chants that are usually given during exorcisms
and thanksgiving during good harvest
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Folk songs
SONGS OF DEATH
✣ Lamentations that contain the roll of good deeds that
the dead has usually done to immortalize his or her
good image
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FOLK TALES
MYTHS
✣ Tackle the natural to strange occurrences of the earth
and how things were created with an aim to give an
explanation to things
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FOLK TALES
LEGENDS
✣ These stories usually come with a lesson that give
credit to supernatural powers, supernatural occurrences,
and other out-of-this-world native imagination
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FOLK TALES
FABLES
✣ These stories use animals as characters that represent a
particular value or characteristic
✣ Usually bounded by good manners and right conduct
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FOLK TALES
EPICS
✣ These contain encounters of fighters, stereotypical
prince or heroes that save a damsel in distress
✣ Very lengthy narratives
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THE SPANISH COLONIZATION
PERIOD
✣ Literature has two distinct classifications:
RELIGIOUS and SECULAR
✣ It introduced Spanish as the medium of communication.
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RELIGIOUS LITERATURE
PASYON
a long narrative poem about the passion and death
of Christ
the most popular was “Ang Mahal na Passion ni
Jesu Cristong Panginoon Natin” by Aquino de Belen
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RELIGIOUS LITERATURE
SENAKULO
dramatization of the pasyon
shows the passion and death of Christ
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SECULAR (NON-RELIGIOUS)
LITERATURE
AWIT
colorful tales of chivalry made for singing and chanting
ex.: Florante at Laura by Francisco Balagtas
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SECULAR (NON-RELIGIOUS)
LITERATURE
KORIDO
a metrical tale or a tale that follows the structure of a
poem
ex.: Ibong Adarna
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Most famous literary works
NOLI ME TANGERE
EL FILIBUSTERISMO
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THE AMERICAN PERIOD
✣ Philippines had a great leap in Education and Culture
✣ The use of English alongside Filipino was practiced.
✣ Instead of asking students to write originals, students
ended up following the form of American poets and
writers.
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FORMS
✣ POETRY
✣ DRAMA
✣ REMAKED NOVELS
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THE JAPANESE PERIOD
✣ Philippine literature came into a halt
✣ The use of the English language was forbidden, and the
use of the Filipino language was mandated under the
Japanese rule
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FORMS
✣ POETRY
✣ FICTION
✣ DRAMA
✣ NEWSPAPERS
✣ ESSAYS
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21ST CENTURY LITERATURE
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FORMS
✣ FICTION
✣ NON-FICTION
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