The document discusses text tula, a new poetry genre in Philippine literature where entire poems are composed through text messages on mobile phones. It focuses on Frank Rivera, who pioneered the text tula genre and has authored many books and poems in this style. The document also defines the traditional Filipino Tanaga poem structure which text tula is loosely based on.
The document discusses text tula, a new poetry genre in Philippine literature where entire poems are composed through text messages on mobile phones. It focuses on Frank Rivera, who pioneered the text tula genre and has authored many books and poems in this style. The document also defines the traditional Filipino Tanaga poem structure which text tula is loosely based on.
The document discusses text tula, a new poetry genre in Philippine literature where entire poems are composed through text messages on mobile phones. It focuses on Frank Rivera, who pioneered the text tula genre and has authored many books and poems in this style. The document also defines the traditional Filipino Tanaga poem structure which text tula is loosely based on.
The document discusses text tula, a new poetry genre in Philippine literature where entire poems are composed through text messages on mobile phones. It focuses on Frank Rivera, who pioneered the text tula genre and has authored many books and poems in this style. The document also defines the traditional Filipino Tanaga poem structure which text tula is loosely based on.
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PREPARATORY ACTIVITY
■ Write as many rhyming words as you can for the given words. Write your answer on the space provided. ■ 1. Read -____________________________________________________ ■ 2. Night-____________________________________________________ ■ 3. Mood-____________________________________________________ ■ 4. Brick-_____________________________________________________ ■ 5. Fun-______________________________________________________ ■ 6. Mine-_____________________________________________________ ■ 7. Car-______________________________________________________ ■ 8. Sing-_____________________________________________________ ■ 9. Day-______________________________________________________ ■ 10. Came-____________________________________________________ TEXT TULA ■ One of the most recent genres in Philippine Literature is the text tula, a poetry genre mastered by Frank Rivera where entire poems are written and read on mobile phones. Though usually short due to the necessity of the number of characters allowed in text messaging, the elements of poetry are still present in this genre. Frank Rivera: Makata sa cell phone
■ Also known as ―makata sa cell phone‖ with his popular ―textula‖ series, Rivera has, to date, authored 21 books of plays for stage, radio, TV and film; plus short stories, essays and four books of poetry published by the UST Publishing House. He has received four National Book Awards while his poems and ―textula‖ are read in political rallies, passed around as text messages, read on radio, posted on social media, printed in tabloid and newspaper columns, recited in school programs and utilized as material in oratorical and declamation contests. Tanaga
■ The Tanaga is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of four lines with seven to nine syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of each line --- that is to say a 7-7-7-7 or 9-9-9-9 Syllabic verse, with an AABB rhyme scheme. To compare, the Japanese haiku has 17 phonetic units divided into three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 units respectively. 2 Tanagang UAAP by Frank G. Rivera ■ 1. What is the text tula about? The Tanaga is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of four lines with seven to nine syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of each line --- that is to say a 7-7-7-7 or 9-9-9-9 Syllabic verse, with an AABB rhyme scheme. To compare, the Japanese haiku has 17 phonetic units divided into three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 units respectively. 41 2. Is it similar to the traditional poems that you have read before? In what way is it similar or different? 3. Does the text tula have rhyming patterns? 4. How about the verse, do they have a similar number of syllables per line? 5. What are possible venues of social media where we can use text tula? What are the words that rhyme based on the “Tanaga‘ of Frank Rivera? Enumerate the words and write the rhyme scheme or structure below. 1. 2. ________________ _________________ ________________ _________________ ________________ _________________ ________________ _________________
