Angela Manalang-Gloria

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A Literary Presentation

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Born : August 2, 1907 in Guagua,PampangaFather : Felipe Dizon-ManalangMother : Tomasa Tolosa-LegaspiSiblings: Esperanza

Angelo Jacobo

Consolacion Fidel Luisa Daniel Angel Josefina Araceli

Husband: Celedonio GloriaSon/s & daughter/s: Ruben

Victoria Eva Angelina Celedonio Jr.

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Poems:A Sigh in the DarkAddenda to HistoryAngelitaAny Woman SpeaksApology to WisdomApologyApril EndApril MorningAprilwiseArabesque DreamAs an OleanderAt the Closing of the DoorAthena SpeaksBalongbong SpeaksBarrio MoonlightBeatitude

Poems:BecauseBeyond the After-Dusk: To a NunBut the Western StarsBy Cool ReedsCanticleCementerio del NorteChangeComplaint to the MusesDawningDeath PatternsDona Inez to Don JuanEndEnnui on a Moonlit NightEpicureErmita in the RainExcuse for PoetryFilipina

Poems:Finale to Summer For Man Must WarFor One Who Slept and DiedForgive MeForgottenHateHeloise to AbelardI Have Begrudged the YearsIn ChurchIn Defense of PoetsIn the ShadowsKinMayMayon Afternoon

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Poems:Metal TendrilsMetamorphosisMetaphorsMidnightMood in Silver: The Waterfall BrideMorning AfterMountain PoolMy StreetNight pieceNocturneOld Maid Walking on a City Street On the Bicol ExpressOn Your ComingPain

Poems:Song of AwakeningSongStarlight FantasySunriseSymphonyTabernaclesTen P.M.Ten Years AfterThe AestheteThe Call of the OceanThe Closed HeartThe CynicThe DebtThe Invalid Looks Towards the WindowThe Leper and the Nun

Poems:ParadoxPier SevenPoem for CPoem for EvangelinaPoemsPostscriptPronounce the WordQueridaRecognitionRemembranceResurrectionRevolt from HymenSketchesSo Much for LoveSoledad

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Poems: The Lie The Medal The Message The Miracle The Moral Is The Outcast The Return The Ripening Thorn The Tax Evader The Wise Virgin This Will Be

Remembered To a Columnist To a Lost One To a Lovely Woman To a Mestiza

Poems: To a Nun To an Idolater To Don Juan To the Great Proletariat To the Man I Married Tropic Heritage Until You Came Virac Wisdom Words Yellow Moon Young Writers’ Party 1940 A.D.

PROSE WORKS: A Tale of Ceramic

Curves An Intimate Sketch of

a Nun and Her Art Confessions Fingering our

Embroidered Past In the Shade of the

Guitar Into the Night I Pray It Shall be Thus On the Art of Posing Stray Leaves: ‘She’ The Lost Childhood

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She was the author of Revolt from Hymen, a poem protesting against marital rape, which caused her denial by an all-male jury from winning the Philippine's Commonwealth Literary Awards in 1940. She was also the author of the poetry collection , Poems, first published in 1940 (and revised in 1950). The collection contained the best of her early work as well as unpublished poems written between 1934 and 1938. Her last poem, Old Maid Walking on a City Street can also be found in the collection. This book was her entry to the Commonwealth Literary Awards, losing to Rafael Zulueta y de Costa’s verse Like the Molave.

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*Angela Manalang-Gloria was a lyric poet, pianist, and editor had her roots in Guagua, Pampanga, but her ancestors went to Albay and prospered. When she was about eight years old, she became fascinated with books, read avidly, and in consequence her eyesight was seriously impaired. She loved music (played the piano very well), nature and things dainty and beautiful.

She started her early schooling with the Benedictine Sisters in Albay, and in Manila continued under the tutelage of the same religious order. She then transferred to another girls' school, Sta. Scholastica, and graduated salutatorian in 1925. In school she continued pursuing her interest in music in hopes of becoming a great pianist. After graduation from high school she proceeded to UP and started taking pre-law subjects, at the same time going into painting. C. V. Vicker, a member of the UP faculty, noticed her creative work and advised her to change her program of study. She shifted her course to the liberal arts and graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in philosophy in 1929.

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In UP she worked with the Philippine Collegian as a literary editor, with Celedonio P. Gloria as editor-in-chief. Their friendship culminated in marriage. Subsequently, her husband, who finished the LL.B. in UP, went into law practice. She became editor of the Herald Mid-Week Magazine but had to resign six months later because of poor health. WWII came and her husband died. Her creative writing gradually diminished.

From the idealist that she was when younger, she emerged a pragmatist, a practical woman reshaped by the realities of life. She had found that life is not all love, that love is not the only way to one's goal. She realized that this world is "circumferenced with lucre/ within a coin of brass." She plunged into business and traveled and prospered. But Philippine literature lost her.

Poems (1940) was, in 1987, the only partial collection of her notable poems. She is essentially a lyric poet voicing her moods and desires in musical, singing stanzas. She finds standard rime and rhythm adequate to her needs. The music in her sonnets is "sweeter and more tender [and more melodious] than Tarrosa's" (Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido), wrote a commentator, but the two lack the verve and exuberance and vitality of that love in the sonnets of Torribia Maño.

Biographical Reference: Filipino Writers in English by Florentino B. Valeros and Estrellita V. Gruenberg, New Day Publishers, Quezon City, 1987.

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*Their family later settled in the Bicol region, particularly in Albay. Caring--as she is fondly called--studied at St. Agnes Academy in Legaspi, where she graduated valedictorian in elementary. In her senior year, she moved to St. Scholastica's College in Malate, Manila, in which her writing started to get noticed.

Angela Manalang was among the first generation female students at the University of the Philippines. Angela initially enrolled in law, as suggested by her father. However, with the advice of her professor who also becomes her mentor, C.V. Wickers, she eventually transferred to literature.

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It was also during her education at the University of the Philippines that she and poet, Jose Garcia Villa developed a life-long rivalry. Both poets vied for the position of literary editor of The Philippine Collegian, which Manalang eventually held for two successive years. In her junior year, she was quietly engaged to Celedonio Gloria whom she married. She graduated summa cum laude with the degree of Ph.B. in March 1929.

After graduation, Manalang-Gloria worked briefly for the Philippine Herald Mid-Week Magazine. However, this was cut short when she contracted tuberculosis. On March 11, 1945, her husband Celedonio and her son Ruben were attacked by a Japanese patrol in Alitagtag, Batangas. Though her husband died, Ruben was able to survive, yet his trauma had been so severe that he could not bring himself to recount the attack. This event left Manalang-Gloria a young widow with three children to support, which forced her to abandon writing and enter the abaca business, which she successfully managed.

Angela Manalang-Gloria died in 1995. www.wikipedia.org

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*When Angela married in 1929, his father provided her a grand wedding that was hailed by the society column of ‘La Vanguardia’ as being one of the most fashionable in Albay.

*Within a period of eight months in 1927-28, Angela published 25 poems in the Herald Magazine.

* Angela had revealed that most of the poems in her collection of poetry were written during the years of her illness between 1934 and 1937.

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Her poem, “To a Lost One” and “But the Western Stars” was criticized by Tom Inglis Moore. Tom Inglis Moore had taken the opportunity to point out what seemed to him its two chief weaknesses: sentimentalism and formlessness. Of the later he had said:

“Of course the classical element has its weaknesses: stiffness, formalism, coldness, even bareness and mechanical monotony. But there is very little fear of these in the Philippine. It is severity of form that is needed economy and clearness of expression... The formlessness shows itself in many ways: inaccurate grammar and use of idiom; slovenly construction; confused imagery; and abstract, even meaningless distinction...”

Moore went on to comment:“What a colorless, dim, twilight, hazy world these

writers live in! And why the quaint desire for misty hazy shore? Can it mean anything but hazy minds? And poetry is not the job for hazy headed people. Here we have the simple image of the possible. But where is the perception of the real? Why all this formlessness... ”

*What Tom Inglis Moore had said was published in the Literary Apprentice.

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Angela Manalang-Gloria‘s poems were chosen by Celedonio Salvador, director of Bureau of Education that time, to be included to study in high school but then he had several comments about the other poems and these were:1. “Heloise to Abelard” should be deleted. This not wholesome for high school girls.2. “Soledad” should be deleted for the same reason as # 1.3. “Pier Seven” – the last line should be revised so as to give less emphasis to ‘whores’. The position of the last word in a long enumeration gives a sort of shocking emphasis which, whether intended or not, is hardly an accurate epitome of the pier scene.4. “Querida” should be deleted for obvious reasons.5. “Metamorphosis” repeats a theme already too frequently given in the section called ‘finale’. It repeals the figure of the hard stone. The theme is not particularly beautiful, and the last two lines are harsh with sarcasm. This poem should be deleted.6. “Revolt from Hymen” is beyond high school students’ experience. This poem can hardly be taught and discussed in the classroom. It should be deleted.

*Angela Manalang-Gloria did what the director wants but then, she added more poems as an exchange for the poems that were deleted.

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Angela Manalang-Gloria didn’t win the 1st Commonwealth Literary Awards because many critics said that...

“There were several poems in the book that they considered very objectionable. Two of these were her poems, Querida and Revolt from Hymen.” Her poems are almost song-like but full of wit and wisdom. Since she was a feminist during the colonial years, her works are centered mostly from a woman's point of view. Even that is such the case; her talent resonates in everyone who reads them. _Anonymous from Idiotboard.blogspot.com In several websites where Angela Manalang-Gloria’s poems were posted, she was praised and many people like her poems. “As a poet she is a revelation; as a woman she is a mystery.” _Luis Dato

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Sources: Edna Zapanta Manlapaz wrote Angela Manalang Gloria: A Literary Biography (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1993). There's also another volume called The Complete Poems of Angela Manalang Gloria (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1993). Filipino Writers in English by Florentino B. Valeros and Estrellita V. Gruenberg, New Day Publishers, Quezon City, 1987. Idiotboard.blogspot.com wikipedia.org http://rizal.lib.admu.edu.ph/aliww/english_amgloria.html pinoylit.com

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Submitted to:Prof. Ruth Alido

Submitted By:Michelle G. Rocillo

II – 14 BSE English