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LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL

THE INTIMATE
ALLIANCE BETWEEN
RELIGION AND
GOOD EDUCATION
Reporter: Freya Ramille Batalla, 2LIT
BACKGROUND DETAILS
OF THE POEM
• It was Dona Teodora who first discovered
the poetical genius of her son, and it was
also she who first encouraged him to
write poems.
• However, it was Father Francisco de
Paula Sanchez who inspired Rizal to make
full use of his God-given gift in poetry
and improved the latter’s poetical art by
opening his mind to the enriching
influence of the world’s literature.
• In 1876, at the Ateneo de Manila where
Rizal was a boarding student, he started
writing poems on various topics: wars,
childhood, memories, education, and
religion.
• Rizal wrote this poem on April 1, 1876,
the summer before entering his fifth
year, as per information given by Father
Sanchez to R. Guerrero.
ORIGINAL SPANISH TEXT
“ALIANZA INTIMA ENTRE LA
RELIGION Y LA BUENA EDUCACION”
Cual hiedra trepadora
Por el olmo empinado,
Siendo entrambos encanto al verde prado,
Y a la par se embellecen
Mientras unidos crecen;
Y si el olmo compasivo faltase,
La hiedra al carecer de su consuelo
Veria tristemente marchitarse;
Tal la Educacion estrecha alianza
Con alma Religion une sincera:
Por ella Educacion renombre alcanza;
Y ay del ser que ciego desechando
De santa Religion sabias doctrinas
De su puro raudal huye nefando
Si de la vid pomposa
E tallo ufano crece
Y sus dulces racimos nos ofrece,
En tanto que al sarmiento generosa
Alimenta la planta carniosa:
Tal limpidas corrientes
De celica virtud dan nueva vida
Guiandola con sus luces refulgentes;
Guiandola con sus luces refulgentes;
Por ella delicado olor exhale,
Y sus frutos sabrosos nos regala.
Sin Religion, la Educacion humana
Es cual nave del viento combatida
Que pierde su timon en lucha horrible
Al fragoroso impulse y sacudida
Del proceloso Boreas terrible
Que la combate fiero
Hasta hundirla altanero
En los abismos de la mar airada.
ENGLISH
TRANSLATION
As the climbing ivy over lefty elm
Creeps tortuously, together the adornment
Of the verdant plain, embellishing
Each other and together growing,
But should the kindly elm refuse its aid
The ivy would impotent and friendless wither
So is Education to Religion
By spiritual alliance bound.
Through Religion, Education gains renown, and
Woe to the impious mind that blindly spurning
The sapient teachings of Religion, this
Unpolluted fountain-head forsakes
As the sprout, growing from the
pompous vine,
Proudly offers us its honeyed clusters
While the generous and loving garment
Feed its roots; so the fresh’ning waters
Of celestial virtue give new life
To Education true, shedding
On its warmth and light; because of them
The vine smells sweet and gives delicious fruit.
Without Religion, Human Education
Is like unto a vessel struck by winds
Which, sore beset, is of its helm deprived
By the roaring blows and buffets of
the dread
Tempestuous Boreas, who fiercely wields
His power until he proudly
sends her down
Into the deep abysses of the angered sea.
As the heaven’s dew the meadow feeds
and strengthens
So that blooming flowers all the earth
Embroider in the days of spring; so also
If Religion holy nourishes
Education its doctrines,
She shall walk in joy and generosity
Toward the Good, and everywhere bestrew
The fragrant and luxuriant fruits of virtue.
SUMMARY, COMMENTS
& INSIGHTS
• In this poem, Rizal stressed the importance
of religion to education. To him, education
without God cannot be considered as true
education.
• As implied in the poem, religions serves as
a guide and nourishment to education,
and with the aid of religion, education will
result to not only intellectual but also
spiritual enlightenment.
• Stanza 1: Compared the relationship of
Religion and Education to that of an ivy and
elm, wherein the existence of one is essential
to the other
• Stanza 2: With religion, education will lead
to a greener pasture and produce sweet
results
• Stanza 3: Without religion, education is like
a vessel lost in a stormy sea
• Stanza 4: With the help of religion,
education will eventually lead to goodness
and virtue
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Abeto, Isidro Escare. Rizal’s Complete Poetical Works.
Manila, NBS, 1976.
• Pedroso, Paulo. “The Intimate Alliance Between Religion
and Good Education.” Prezi,
https://prezi.com/tuqy14rbxgpe/the-intimate-alliance-
between-religion-and-good-education/. Accessed 25
November 2019.
• Veloso, Alfredo. The Complete Poems of Jose Rizal in
Spanish. Manila, Far Eastern University, 1961.
• Zaide, Gregorio. Jose Rizal: Asia’s First Apostle of
Nationalism. Manila, Red Star Publication, 1970.

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