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Birth of Poem

The document provides analysis and activities related to the Indonesian poem "The Birth of a Poem" by Subagio Sastrowardojo. It asks students to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words, analyze the poem, and paraphrase its lines. Students are asked to examine personification in the poem and discuss who owns the experience of poetry. For an activity, students can write a paraphrased version of a poem by a Filipino poet or personify a concept related to college education.

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Birth of Poem

The document provides analysis and activities related to the Indonesian poem "The Birth of a Poem" by Subagio Sastrowardojo. It asks students to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words, analyze the poem, and paraphrase its lines. Students are asked to examine personification in the poem and discuss who owns the experience of poetry. For an activity, students can write a paraphrased version of a poem by a Filipino poet or personify a concept related to college education.

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MAIN TOPIC 6

INDONESIA
Objectives
Determine the meanings of unfamiliar words through
synonyms and antonyms.
Analyze a vlog on reading and writing poetry.
Paraphrase the poem, The birth of a poem by Subagio
Sastrowardojo.
Pre-reading Activity
Examine the given words carefully and complete the table by listing synonyms
and antonyms
of each given word. Choose your answer from the word bank below.
Word bank
bliss gentleman glee goodman grief happiness rascal
rogue sadness saint scoundrel sorrow
While-reading Activity
Read and analyze The birth of a poem by Subagio Sastrowardojo. Paraphrase the
poem by selecting the equivalent of each color-coded line from the given
choices. Explain the meaning of each paraphrased line.

The birth of a poem


by Subagio Sastrowardojo
Night pregnant with my seed
thrusts the nine-month child down
to the ground, Motherless bastard
bearing the first sin
on its brow. Its cry declares
my hunger and melancholy, my suffering
and my death, Kiss the ground
source of your suffering, It
is your soul.
Post Reading Activity
Personification
1. What human characteristics are endowed to the subject of this literary
work?
2. What effect does this endowment of human characteristics bring to the
subject of the poem and to the reader?
3. How does the use of personification help in conveying the central idea of
this metapoem?

Literary Approach: Deconstructionism


1. Who owns the experience brought by poetry – the author, the persona, or
the reader? Make an argument on this issue.
Creating with Them
Accomplish any of the following tasks.
1. Make a paraphrased version of a poem about writing poetry written by a
well-known Filipino poet. What does it reveal about the art of writing
poetry?
2. Personify a concept or experience (e.g. examination, enrollment or the
like) on college education. What human qualities do you associate to that
concept or experience? What is your reason for such association?
3. Using a Venn diagram, compare and contrast the two metapoems under
Indonesian literature.

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