Poetry in the Spanish Colonial Period

• Precolonial poems depicted spiritual beliefs and everyday lives of natives
• Poems during the Spanish colonial period focused on religion and values
• Poems during the Spanish colonial period became instruments in spreading Christianity and Spanish-oriented culture
• Iadino - Bilingual poem with religious themes
• Iadino is characterized by alternating lines or verses in Tagalog and Spanish
• Iadino refers to Filipinos fluent in both Spanish and Filipino
• Memorial de la vida Cristiana en lengua Tagala (Guidelines for the Christian Life in the Tagalog Language) - Fr. Francisco Blancas de San Jose included a Iadino poem
• Francisco Bagongbata - Wrote the Iadano poem known by its first line "Salamat nang walang hangga" (Unending thanks)
• Payso - Narrative poem about the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ
• Payso replaced precolonial oral tradition
• Payso - Five line stanzas with eight syllables per line
• Ang Mahal na Pasion ni Jesu Christong Panginoon natin na Tola (1704) - Earliest known pasyon
• Awit - Narrative poem with 12 syllables per line, and 4 lines per stanza
• Rhythm in Awit is slow and accompanied by bandurya
• Awit - Expressed adoration of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Awit - Expresses platonic and courtly love
• Florante at Laura - Francisco Balagtas (Awit)
• Korido - Narrative poem with 8 syllables per line and 4 lines per stanza
• Korido has a faster rhythm than awit
• Ibong Adarna - Contains 1722 stanzas and 5 parts (Korido)
• Dalit - Religious poem in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Francisco Baltazar - Famous poet of the Spanish colonial period
• Francisco Baltazar - Master of traditional Tagalog poetry
• Florante at Laura - metaphor for Spanish tyranny
• Precolonial poems depicted what?

  Spiritual beliefs and everyday lives of natives
• Memorial de la vida Cristiana en lengua Tagala (Guidelines for the Christian Life in the Tagalog Language) - Fr. Francisco Blancas de San Jose included a Iadino poem
• What book included a Iadino poem?

  Memorial de la vida Cristiana en lengua Tegala
• What is the earliest known Payso?

  Ang Mahal na Pasion ni Jesu Christong Panginoon natin na Tola
• What is the english title of Memorial de la vida Cristiana en lengua Tagala?

  Guidelines for the Christian Life in the Tagalog Language
• Who made Memorial de la Vida Cristiana en lengua Tagala?

  Fr. Francisco Blancas de San Jose
• Florante at Laura is written by who?

  Francisco Balagtas
• Florante at Laura is a type of what?

  Awit
• Dalit is a religious poem in on honor of what?

  Blessed Virgin Mary
• Ibong Adarna is what type of poem?

  Korido
• Who was a master of traditional Tagalog poetry?

  Francisco Baltazar
• Florante at Laura was a metaphor for what?

  Spanish Tyranny