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Angela Manalang-Gloria: To A Lost One

1. The poem is about a speaker who promises to haunt their lost lover. The speaker says they will visit like twilight haunts a bamboo trail and their dreams will linger with the music of a phantom tale. 2. The speaker insists the lover will not forget them because the speaker cannot forget. The speaker says they will come again with the starlight, scent of flowers, and melody of rain. 3. Dusk will peer into the lover's window with its hand on the sill and startle the lover into remembering the speaker.

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Angela Manalang-Gloria: To A Lost One

1. The poem is about a speaker who promises to haunt their lost lover. The speaker says they will visit like twilight haunts a bamboo trail and their dreams will linger with the music of a phantom tale. 2. The speaker insists the lover will not forget them because the speaker cannot forget. The speaker says they will come again with the starlight, scent of flowers, and melody of rain. 3. Dusk will peer into the lover's window with its hand on the sill and startle the lover into remembering the speaker.

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TO A LOST ONE

Angela Manalang-Gloria

I shall haunt you, O my lost one, as the


twilight
Haunts a grieving bamboo trail,
And your dreams will linger strangely with
the music
Of a phantom lover’s tale.

You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting


I shall come to you again
With the starlight, and the scent of wild champakas,
And the melody of rain.
You shall not forget. Dusk will peer into your
Window, tragic-eyed and still,
And unbidden startle you into remembrance
With its hand upon the sill.
Name: ___________________________________________ Score: _______________
Course: ________________________________ Professor: ______________________

I. Testing One’s Word Power

What word in the poem means: Write the answer on the space before the number.

__________________ 1. to visit habitually ------------------------ (Stanza 1)

__________________ 2. to remain ------------------------- (Stanza 2)

__________________ 3. an apparition ------------------------- (Stanza 3)

__________________ 4. a period of partial darkness ------------------------- (Stanza 4)

__________________ 5. to surprise ------------------------- (Stanza 5)


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II. Checking One’s Understanding

Answer the following questions.

1. What is the meaning of enjambment? Do you find examples of this literary tool in
the poem of Manalang-Gloria? Read the examples aloud.

2. What is the most outstanding quality of this poem? Is it melody or subject matter?

3. What is the poet trying to tell in the following lines:


a. as twilight haunts a reed-entangled trail
b. music of phantom’s lover’s tale
c. the melody of rain

4. Why is dusk referred to as “tragic-eyed and still?

5. In what mood is the poem written?

III. Enrichment Activity


Form a group of fifteen. Present a “Choral Reading” of the poem.

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