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Metrical Romance

Little is known of the actual circumstances surrounding the emergence of the metrical romance as a major genre in Tagalog poetry. The difficulty in fixing definite dates in regard to the evolution of the metrical romance lies in the fact that examples did not begin to see print until the nineteenth century.

Metrical Romance
In talking about the Tagalog narrative poems, it is best to adopt Fanslers generic term metrical romance, because these poems fall under two different species: the corrido and the awit. For this classification and clarification, we are indebted to Epifanio de los Santos who pointed out that corridos are octosyllabic poems, which might be sung to the tune of the pasion, while the awits are dodecasyllabic narratives sung in an elegiac and pleading manner.

Appeal of the Metrical Romance


Fantasy world refuge for a people seeking relief from the rigors of foreign rule Growing urbanization a groping for sophistication Restoration of Literacy

Courtly Love
Love of a highly-specialized sort, whose characteristics may be enumerated as Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of Love. The lover is always abject. his love is represented as a despairing and tragical emotion or almost despairing, for he is saved from complete wanhope by his faith in the God of Love (112)
courtly love, Tagalog-style love that is unattainable, that brings suffering, that ennobles

Baltazar enlightened poet


Use of Footnotes Greek mythology Roman mythology

Other Classical texts

Anachronisms
Setting (place vs. time) Religion (Moor?) Education

Location of Florantes native land

Thematic Design: Love

Courtly love Passionate love Filial love Patriotic love

Motif: Illusion
Adolfo Laura Flerida

Aladin
Florante

Initiation Story

The HERO of initiation/quest stories

Formalization of Tradition
Narrative Poetry Courtly Love Emotion as determinant Expansion of the use of figurative language Dodecasilabiko

4 lines per stanza


Aphorisms

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