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    Lesson 13/ Poetry Memory of The Empire and in The Cosmopolitan Port City

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    This lesson introduces the concept of cosmopolitanism from a postcolonial perspective through the analysis of a poem. It discusses how the Philippines was influenced by its Spanish and American colonizers in areas like religion, entertainment, and education. The poem "XVIII, From Amsterdam" by J. Neil C. Garcia describes a cosmopolitan port city where people from colonized lands have come together, divested of their cultures by imperialism. Literary devices like metonymy and synecdoche are used to represent this postcolonial experience.

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    This lesson introduces the concept of cosmopolitanism from a postcolonial perspective through the analysis of a poem. It discusses how the Philippines was influenced by its Spanish and American colonizers in areas like religion, entertainment, and education. The poem "XVIII, From Amsterdam" by J. Neil C. Garcia describes a cosmopolitan port city where people from colonized lands have come together, divested of their cultures by imperialism. Literary devices like metonymy and synecdoche are used to represent this postcolonial experience.

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    This lesson introduces the concept of cosmopolitanism from a postcolonial perspective through the analysis of a poem. It discusses how the Philippines was influenced by its Spanish and American colonizers in areas like religion, entertainment, and education. The poem "XVIII, From Amsterdam" by J. Neil C. Garcia describes a cosmopolitan port city where people from colonized lands have come together, divested of their cultures by imperialism. Literary devices like metonymy and synecdoche are used to represent this postcolonial experience.

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    Lesson 13/ Poetry Memory of The Empire and in The Cosmopolitan Port City

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    LESSON 13/ POETRY

    MEMORY OF THE EMPIRE AND


    IN THE COSMOPOLITAN PORT
    CITY
    This lesson introduces the concept of cosmopolitanism as articulated by a
    postcolonial poet.
    Essential Question
    How is the notion of cosmopolitanism viewed from the perspective of
    literary postcolonialism?
    Learning Points
    • Situate the texts in the context of the region, the nation, and the world.
    • Articulate the significance and place of cultural and national memory in
    an increasingly globalized world.
    • Respond critically to the poem and consequently articulate this
    response through a conceptualization of a monument that
    memorializes a particular event or person in contemporary Philippine
    history.
    The Philippine Colonial Experience
    The Philippines was colonized by two Western superpowers of their time:
    the Spanish and the Americans. The Japanese occupied the country
    during much of World War II, but they did not stay long enough to have a
    long-lasting influence in our culture. In the table on the next page, look up
    and identify one important legacy of the Spaniards and the Americans in
    each specified category. Identify if this had a positive or negative effect on
    our culture. Be sure to present arguments to justify your side. Be guided
    by the table on the next slide.
    CATEGORY SPANISH AMERICAN
    Influence Positive or Influence and Positive or
    and Negative? Contribution Negative?
    Contribution
    Religion or
    Religious
    Practices?
    Entertainment
    or Forms of
    Leisure
    Education
    XVIII, FROM AMSTERDAM: A CYCLE
    by J. Neil C. Garcia
    Manila
    It is late in the hour of imperialism
    Look at how wistfully this city reels them in:

    the Creoles, the Natives, the Others,


    From the plundered spaces of a plundered earth.

    They are here whom the Empire had divested


    of their cinnamons, their diamonds, their posterities,

    Of their women and their men in their nakedness.


    pushed into the chaste habiliments of culture,

    away from the dank gardens of a savage past,


    here they walk, and ogle, and fail to remember

    Their lost memories raised this city from the sea.


    J. Neil Garcia uses metonymy and synecdoche in this poem.
    What are metonymy and synecdoche?

    Read the poem again. Can you identify objects which function
    as either metonymy or synecdoche?
    In pairs or in threes, draw the dramatic situation of the poem below.

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