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    This document discusses metrical romances, a type of romantic poetry that reached the Philippines during the Spanish period. It highlights heroic deeds of knights on quests to win women's hearts. These were likely influenced by Spanish sources and transmitted orally. The main types discussed are corridos, extended narratives in octosyllabic lines like Ibong Adarna, and awits, chivalric poems in dodecasyllabic lines like Florante at Laura. Both were related to music but corridos were sung hurriedly while awits were sung slowly.

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    This document discusses metrical romances, a type of romantic poetry that reached the Philippines during the Spanish period. It highlights heroic deeds of knights on quests to win women's hearts. These were likely influenced by Spanish sources and transmitted orally. The main types discussed are corridos, extended narratives in octosyllabic lines like Ibong Adarna, and awits, chivalric poems in dodecasyllabic lines like Florante at Laura. Both were related to music but corridos were sung hurriedly while awits were sung slowly.

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    This document discusses metrical romances, a type of romantic poetry that reached the Philippines during the Spanish period. It highlights heroic deeds of knights on quests to win women's hearts. These were likely influenced by Spanish sources and transmitted orally. The main types discussed are corridos, extended narratives in octosyllabic lines like Ibong Adarna, and awits, chivalric poems in dodecasyllabic lines like Florante at Laura. Both were related to music but corridos were sung hurriedly while awits were sung slowly.

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    This document discusses metrical romances, a type of romantic poetry that reached the Philippines during the Spanish period. It highlights heroic deeds of knights on quests to win women's hearts. These were likely influenced by Spanish sources and transmitted orally. The main types discussed are corridos, extended narratives in octosyllabic lines like Ibong Adarna, and awits, chivalric poems in dodecasyllabic lines like Florante at Laura. Both were related to music but corridos were sung hurriedly while awits were sung slowly.

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    Jessalyn G.

    Butawan BSA 2-1 2015-10054

    Philippine Literature under Spanish Period


    Metrical Romances
    Definition:
    A metrical romance is also known as romantic poetry. It tells a story in verse form and
    portray the adventures of romantic poetry. These texts highlighted chivalric periods in
    history focusing upon civility and manners. Examples of these types of work normally
    show the heroic deeds of a knight on a quest to win the heart of a woman and the honor
    placed upon him by his king.
    How they reach our country:
    Vicente Barrantes assumes a Spanish origin and suggests that romances and popular
    tales of Spain, which were already altered when they reached the country and were in
    turn altered by the natives, may have been brought by the soldiers of Miguel Lopez de
    Legaspi from Mexico). The corridos that took shape in the Philippines thus may have
    been influenced not just by Spanish and European sources but also by the Mexican
    corrido.. Oral transmission is considered the probable cause for the very imperfect way
    some stories have been preserved in Philippine romances.

    Types of Metrical Romances


    1. Corrido - an extended narrative of the life and adventures of some person. In
    Tagalog the term, if strictly used, is applied only to poems written in octosyllabic
    lines
    Example: Ibong Adarna by Jose de la Cruz
    Kabanata 22: Pagwawangis (956 saknong)
    Isang sirena sa dagat
    Na nagsasabog ng dilag
    Sa paligid ay may perlas
    Sa perlas din nakayapak.

    2. Awit - ts literal translation into English is "song," although in the context of poetry,
    it is closer to the narrative

    Example: Florante at Laura by Francisco Balagtas Baltazar (125 saknong)


    "Nang matumbasan ko ang luha, ang sakit
    nitong pagkalimot ng tunay kong ibig,
    huwag yaring buhay ang siyang itangis
    kundi ang pagsintang lubos na naamis."
    Similarities and Differences
    CORRIDO
    <<
    1. octosyllabic (8 syllables)

    CORRIDO & AWIT


    <<SIMILARITIES>>
    1.both related to music

    "legendary and religious


    poems

    usually sung to the


    accompaniment of a guitar,
    in fandango style

    in allegro or hurried time

    AWIT
    >>
    1. dodecasyllabic (12
    syllables)
    "chivalric-heroic" poems

    set to music in andante or


    slow time

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