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• Amador T. Daguio was a pre-war poet
• Amador T. Daguio was best known for his fictions and poems: "Bataan Harvest" and "The Flaming Lyre.
• Amador T. Daguio was only twenty years old when he wrote "Man of Earth" in 1932
• Amador T. Daguio served as a chief editor for the Philippine House of Representatives before he died in 1966.
• In 1932, the Philippines was going through a socio-political transition period.
• In 1932, Manuel L. Quezon and Sergio Osmeña, the Nacionalista Party leader, led the Philippine Independence Mission to Washington, D.C.
• Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act/Philippine Independence Act - the first law setting a specific date for Philippine independence from the United States.
• TEXTURE: ABAB-CDED-FFCC-AGHG
• FORM: Lyric poem
• PLIANT BAMBOO - a person who easily bends/ is influenced
• Man of earth- a person who is firm and rooted
• bamboo - symbolizes strength

  and flexibility
• wind - something uncontrollable; something that

  challenges the bamboo's

  flexibility
• POINT OF VIEW: First Person POV
• tone: perplexed, assertive
• implied metaphor - bamboo and man
• allusion - malakas at maganda
• synecdoche - “Am I of the body? Or of the green leaf?”