identify the elements of poetry brutal the daylong bashing of its heart the poem gabu?
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Answer:
Senses, imagery, diction, and rhyme scheme are emphasized in this canonical poem, “Gabu”, one of the most widely read local poems in English by Carlos Angeles. Carlos Angeles was born on 25 May 1921 in Tacloban, Leyte.
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Analysis:
Genre
- Philosophical (Existentialist)
- Lyric Poem
Persona:
- Probably someone on a beach at Gabu, watching the rough sea, contemplating life
Theme:
- Life can be restless like the sea; temporal, but desires permanence.
Meaning and Imagery:
The battering restlessness of the sea
Insists a tidal fury upon the beach
At Gabu, and its pure consistency
Havocs the wasteland hard within its reach.
- Battering restlessness = Impermanent
- Sea = Life
- The sea is restless and can be destructive
- Gabu
o A place in Ilocos Norte near the sea
o Often, when typhoons occur, places like this are affected greatly
o Tsunami
o Ex: typhoon Imbudo, July 2003
Brutal the daylong bashing of its heart
Against the seascape where, for miles around,
Farther than sight itself, the rock-stones part
And drop into the elemental wound
Brutal bashing = life’s chaos
Elemental wound = Depths of the sea
The turmoil of the sea is continuous and powerful.
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