BONSAI by Edith
The trees can't understand why he isn't the same as them.
∆ The poem "Bonsai" by Edith Tiempo is about love and
how people imbue certain objects with love for a person,
and those objects become the symbol of love. Edith
Tiempo starts out her poem by describing what she does with
love. She folds it to make it smaller so that she can keep it in a
box, hollow post or shoe. Because love is an abstract concept
and has no physical form, she is obviously talking about
objects.
∆ However, it is not love of the objects themselves that this
poem is referencing. It is rather about how the love for a
person or place can be best touched through an object that
evokes them.
∆ These objects are easy to keep, and, thus, they become the
keeper of memory and of the love that is held for the person.
In a sense, they are a physical manifestation of love because
they can be held and touched, and they remain constant in
form. So even if the love itself fades, the object remains, and it
is evidence of the love that was experienced. More, it is
evidence that love is real because these objects are concrete
and not abstract. Because of them, she is sure that love lasts
until the world ends.
Patalim
∆ The analysis of the poem Patalim By Cirilo Bautista is that
in love we need patience and know how to prioritize things.
A relationship is a two-way thing, it's a give and take.
∆ Vvv
Pedagogic
∆ Is about preservation of traditional cultures and ways. The
trees symbolize how people change as they grow old. It
also represents how a culture or group of people changes
over time.
∆ I walked towards the falling woods. = I came to the fallen
people.
to teach the trees all that I could.= to share knowledge
Of time and birth, the language of men, the virtues of hate
and loving.= To pass on the history of mankind.
They stood with their fingers flaming, Listened to me with a
serous mien. They listened seriously, finger= tools they use
or there minds. There minds are serious.
You see the tree asks in pain why you are not the same as
we. It's a poem about mankind and how we separate
ourselves from each other though we speak the same
language and learn the same things. We all learn of love,
and hate and the virtues of men. Trees are to be symbols
of people When they change colors that shows the
seasons or growth of change of the humans. We humans
grow and change in life. The seasons are the four stages of
human life. Youth, teenage-hood, adult, retirement.
When a tree or a person ask why you never change color it
points out the differences of people. Humans are always
pointing out what is wrong in society.
Footnote to the youth
∆ History repeats itself.
∆ Tackles the responsibilities and realities that come with
marriage and the family life. In it, he narrates the story of
Dodong, wherein we are introduced to Dodong when he is
seventeen and seeking to marry his love Teang. He is
problematic over how he intends to talk to his father about
marrying Teang, going over the possible responses his
father would give, and at the same time convincing himself
that he is old enough to handle the responsibility.
∆ Yet she wished she had not married, is a sentence that is
separated from Not even Dodong whom she
loved, meaning it is the act of marrying at a young age that
she regrets, not the fact that it is Dodong whom she
married. Not marrying Dodong was only an after-thought.
∆ Blas – dodong’s son
∆ The theme, then, is clear in the sense that the quality of
one's life is likened to that of a worm when marriage and
adulthood is rushed into at a very young age.
Dead stars
∆ Alfredo is a coward because
o Married a woman he doesn’t love
o Thought of Julia all throughout
o Realized that he doesn’t love anymore.
∆ Story of what ifs.
∆ Esperanza - finance