Introduction

The first language is the language that individuals use in their head, their inner voice. They learn their
first language during the critical development of their brain, age 0-12, this is essentially the time they
will develop personalities. Language is in constant change for the convenience of people on a distinct
culture. French people at their known “lavish” living are also seen in the language French. Modern
English had been dubbed “the lazy language” since few syllables can result to many words, unlike Old
English, and Americans are known to be lazy and forceful. People around an individual is likely to be at
the same culture and language further increasing the personality the language had contributed to.

Meanwhile, recent researches have suggested that an individual creates a new distinct persona when
speaking and thinking a different language. Is it that learning foreign language makes an individual learn
copy the behavior embedded into that foreign language? Current researches couldn’t say. However,
these researches gives similar points: Phonetic elements like Tone, Stress, Intonation, and Pitch all
contribute to that. And one literary medium utilizes all that to create a mood, Poem. Poetic techniques
had been around since Aristotle, and had very much developed. In English, the structure of some kinds
of Poem, for example Sonnet, had been altered by poets like Shakespeare to fit their invented
techniques that will satisfy their intended audience, that is creating the intended mood at the least
taxing way for the readers. However no studies had ventured specifically on the question “Would their
techniques satisfy audience they don’t know?” Famous literary works have been published on foreign
nation either as translated or not. Translated works always had the theme and motif exact, but almost
never the techniques used. Untranslated however does both if it disregards the reader’s capability to
read and comprehend the work.

Education systems like DepEd’s have foreign literature in their language subjects, and the English being
the most used language is not out of question.

Methodology

To measure the effectiveness of foreign poetic techniques the researcher will conduct a survey among
40 students. Ten students will be selected from each grade level – five students under General
Curriculum and five from Special Science Class.

The participants will read four poem- two with foreign techniques while two without techniques. After
reading, they will be asked in a survey. The participants will select the poem they like and understood
more and they will have to give a brief comprehension about the selected poem.

The data will be analysed. The researchers will count and tally their answers. They will get the average of
the preferred literature of all grade levels. They will based their conclusion from the results they will get.