Tolosa, Keisha Faye D. - Written Work 4

 I. Essay Questions for the poem “Agua de Viuda” 

1. How was the word viuda defined in the poem?

- Viuda was defined as a woman alone and whose husband is buried.

 

2. Identify and discuss the figures of speech used by the author. 

• - Apostrophe, because apostrophe is the address of a usually absent person. 

3. The second stanza tells you that the death of her grandmother was sweet for some, why is that so? 

• - It is sweet for some since the date of the death was the birth anniversary of her husband and somehow it gives an idea of rebirth or their love, and reunion of their souls. 

4.  Was the narrator a real viuda? Why, or why not? 

• - In the first paragraph, she was not the real viuda and she said that she has not buried her husband nor does she want to.

“All these Fighting Cocks” 

 

All these Fighting Cocks written by Reil Benedict Obenque, the story of All these Fighting Cocks is all about the father who is being addicted to fight the cocks and it turns into a real cock. The husband and wife are always arguing when they talked and comes to the cocks and because the battle field for the cocks are at the backyard of their house and where the Anthurium and Cadena de amor are placed. The two flowers are very important to the wife and one day the Anthurium and the Cadena de amor was tear down and it is during the cock's fight, and her husband said that “it's just a flower” and his wife avenge like this one morning, the wife had repeatedly pierced the claws of his cocks fight with the tiny needle until the cocks started limping, the blood spurting from the congregation of infinitesimal holes every time the cocks move, and the wife said that “well, they're just cocks” and her husband slapped her after he discover what's the wife do to his cocks. One day her husband awoke her with his crowing-the same cry that used to annoy her wife every morning and she threatened her husband to make the cocks into a food because the cocks were no use now and their children had never tried any of this food, tinolang manok, adobong manok, pritong manok, ginataang manok, out of her husband. Those are the first signs. Her husband was in a great distress that he had a fever so high that the pillow burnt and his wife came to him with a bucket of ice cubes and she placed the ice in her husband armpits, between her husband’s groins, and over her husband’s forehead just to break his fever, and after that his wife continued her gardening because there’s no fighting cocks and to peck at the Anthurium flower and step on the Cadena de amor flower. Eventually, her husband did not only squawk, and he also grew a crown on his balding head, and a lesion that ultimately developed into a fleshy lump. The day the husband totally lost his voice was the same day his lips had stretched into a beak, and his hand had shrunk into a half, and his toes had turned all bony. His wife and his children, chin resting on their folded knees, surrounded as the husband walked back and forth, her husband squawking and flailing his hands, the rope still tied around a beam on the ceiling and around the missing ankle of his left foot. His wife had to stripe off his shirt because it was useless now. Her husband was covered with goosebumps all over the skin which they once thought was just an acne, and soon he would grow feathers and a saddle. This story implies that we should be responsible enough for our vices which can harm to others and no matter what kind of things that is being affected because of our actions and we are the one who has the duty to fix it.