Critique Paper On Kawat Sa Tubig

The poem "Kawat Sa Tubig" by Kristian Sendor Corden is a Bicol poem that talks about

the behavior of the son and the father. Let us have some summary about the poem before we

criticize it. Kawat sa tubig is a good or shall I say a wonderful poem. It tells about the son who

used to play with water and the father who always keeps telling and shouting his son to stop

playing water but time goes by when the son reached the adult age, he doesn't play with water

anymore but his father does. Everything changed, now the son is the one who keeps yelling his

father to stop playing water.

In this poem I'm going to use psychoanalytic criticism. Let us first know what

psychoanalytic criticism is? Who develops it? What are the questions to be answered using

psychoanalytic criticism? As I have found out, according to the author D.Z Philips that there are

10 questions to be answered using psychoanalytic but I only chose four question to use. I also

found out that psychoanalytic criticism aims to discover and interpret some behavior of human.

According to Sigmund Freud who develops the psychoanalytic criticism that the person has

three essential parts as the human personality. These are the Id, Ego, and Super ego. Now we

will criticize the poem using psychoanalytic approach. These are some question to be answered

using psychoanalytic approach according to D.Z Philips:

 How human mind works?

 How human mental psychological development occurs?
 The root cause of psychological problem?
 How the id, ego and super ego are represented?
In number one question. If we are going to talk about how human mind works

scientifically. We all know that our brains have parts such as cerebrum, cerebellum and medulla

if I'm not mistaken. It also has nerves. These parts help our brains to work but if we are going to

talk about it in psychologically, I can say that it depends upon the behavior of the person.

Example if you have a genetic of being a liar, your mind works fast to think something which is

not true and tell it to a certain person. If you are a generous person your mind might tell you to

help a person who is in need.

In number two question. I think human mental psychologically development occurs

when we are growing up because our brains are continuously developing until it dies. What I
mean is when we are getting old our brains work slowly. Example, some old people experience a

short term of Alzheimer and some are lifetime. They can easily forget something they just have

did. Just like in the poem. The father plays with water which he not used to do when he was

young.
In number three question. Let us relate it to the poem. The root cause of psychological

problems in the poem is the behavior of the father because he is experiencing a short term of

Alzheimer which leads him to play water.

In number four question, I think the only essential parts of human personality that being

represented is the ego. The ego tells you to yell to a certain person who is not listening to what

you are saying, because of the ego the son yells his father to stop playing water. The same with

his father when he was a young.

This is the end of my critique paper. I hope that I have answered all the question in

psychoanalytic approach. I discussed the meaning of the psychoanalytic approach and who

develops it.

Critique Paper
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Philippine Literature
(Kawat sa Tubig)

Submitted by: Luneta, Alejandro A.

Submitted to: Mr. Richard Nabua