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Life
She graduated in Silliman University with an MA in Creative Writing in 1974. She teaches at the
Creative Writing Center,[1] University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College.[2]She lives
in Tacloban City.
Awards
Works
Kabilin: 100 Years of Negros Oriental, Negros Oriental Centennial Foundation, 1993
Edited
Fern Garden: An Anthology of Women Writing in the South, Committee on Literature, National
Commission on Culture and the Arts, 1998, ISBN 978-971-91500-6-0
Anthologies
Songs of ourselves: writings by Filipino women in English, Editor Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz, Anvil
Publishing, 1994, ISBN 978-971-27-0356-0
2. DESCRIBE THE EFFECTS OF HAIYAN UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME
There are people who still have no permanent homes after the destructive typhoon left them homeless
There are missing funds given to us by both private and public institutions inside and outside our
country
The trauma brought by the typhoon to the people affected who lost their loved ones and their
livelihoods
The typhoon opened the eyes of the Filipino people to the serious effects of storm surge and level 4
typhoons
It helped the Filipinos show unity amidst the crisis, hence proving that Filipinos still practice bayanihan
in the modern times
Irony
Metaphor
1. Free verse poem, walang sinusunod na rule, di nagra-rhyme and 1 stanza lang siya.
1. Because of the figures of speech used, the playing of words evoke strong emotions from the
readers, thus, the happenings are felt more sincerely and touches the heart.
2. It’s in third point of view, that’s why it covers a larger group of people but at the same time in a
specific way. It states what there is and stays teue to what has happened.
Visual patterns
Uneven
-Rhymes
-No. Of syllables
-Stanzas
-Free verse
- One visual pattern we have observed in the poem is its uneven number of syllables per
line. It is also a free-verse poem since it follows no particular structure. It has no set
meter, which is the rhythm of the words. The poem also has no rhyme scheme.