Introduction to literature - Tan, Arsenia B. (Mandaluyong City : Academic Pub., 1996)
Poetry: Reading and understanding poetry: Diction -- Imagery -- The language of comparison -- Symbol -- Rhythm and rhyme -- Poetic forms: Lyric poetry: Divination by a daffodil -- The sick rose -- The eagle -- Neutral tones -- With rue my heart is laden -- Resume -- Withered vine -- Flowers in a solemn row -- On the vanity of earthly greatness -- The journey of the Magi -- Spring and fall: To a young child -- Base details -- Love poem -- Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening -- Tithonous -- Imagining how it will be three years after my death -- Sonnet 73 -- I was not young long: I met the soul early -- Do not go gently into that good night -- Let me not to the marriage of true minds -- Psalm 103 -- So much depends -- Ozymandias -- For Anne Gregory -- Clever women -- Richard Cory -- Number 3 on the docket -- The casualty -- Song for Ching K'O -- The beast in the mirror -- The haiku -- The piercing chill -- Six famous Japanese masters of the haiku: Folk ballads: Get up and bar the door -- Lord Randall -- The devil and the farmer's wife -- The cruel mother -- Fair Margaret and sweet William: Literary ballads: The ruined maid -- Bishop Hatto -- The quarry: The epics: The Iliad and the Odyssey -- Mahabharata and the Ramayana -- The song of Roland -- The Nibelungenlied -- The biag ni Lam-ang -- Indrapatra at Sulayman: Essay: What are Filipinos like -- The Filipino woman -- Absence of God -- The role of mothers today -- The principal role of the home in the making of a Filipino: Greek myths: The creation -- The golden age -- The war in heaven -- The reign of Zeus -- Prometheus creates a man -- Prometheus brings fire to man -- The punishment of Prometheus -- Pandora's box: Filipino myths: Bathala or Abba -- Lesser divinities assisting Bathala -- Story of Maykapal -- Coming of Kabunian -- The first people: Fables: The hare and the tortoise -- The ant and the grasshopper -- The lion and the mouse -- Asinine pride -- A fabled flower that fades not -- A communist dictator: Parables: The sower -- The prodigal son -- The mustard seed and the leaven: The legends: The legend of the black rice -- Fuego de San Anton -- The salt spring of Salinas -- The frog princess -- The enchanted princess: The short story: Moonlight -- Clay -- Maternity leave -- Footnote to youth -- Desire -- We Filipinos are mild drinkers: The drama: The dancers -- Riders to the sea -- Call me Flory -- Tatarin -- The brute.
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