Indo Lit

Reyes, Renz, T.
BSMA-3102
INDONESIA
Mrs.Geni in December
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Theme
1. What belief does Mrs. Geni hold about marriage? How does this belief influence her work as a
makeup artist for bride-to-be?
2. Mrs. Geni considers marriage as “not a success,” how does this idea relate to her own marriage and
her reason for marrying her husband?1
3. How does Mrs. Geni react on the upcoming marriage of his husband to his second bride?
What does she mean when she says that she will personally do the makeup for her husband’s second
bride?
4. Whenever Mrs. Geni does the makeup for the brides who are second and third wives, she
makes them feel the joy of wedding ceremony. What does this action reveal about her
attitude toward marriage?
5. What is the significance of this concluding statement from Mrs. Geni, “Let the buffaloes
experience happiness, just as we have believed all this time that marriage is happiness”?
Answer;
1. For Mrs. Geni, marriage is joy, happiness. “If someone does not even feel happy when they get
married, they aren’t going to find any other joy.1It impluence her work to be mor productive and gain
mor trust and customers.
2. This idea explains that as a couple it needs alot of courage and small amount of foolishness.
3. She was chill , and states To try to forbid it would be hard, and it would be useless anyway. Just let
him do it. She means that even it is her housband's wife bride is a bride if she is happy then she do her
job as an artist.
4. Marriage is happiness and the way to find joy
5. To justify that happiness is for everyone. That makes the sense to make decision to provide and give
happiness.
Literary Approach: Formalism
1. Which situation is emphasized in the story? What do you think is the writer’s attitude
towards this situation? Explain.
2. What is the dominant mood expressed among the dialogues of the main character in the
story? How does this mood affect the readers?2
Answer;
1. Let people feel joy once in their lives.” For Mrs. Geni, marriage is joy, happiness. “If someone does not
even feel happy when they get married, they aren’t going to find any other joy.2This statements catch
as the emphasis of the story where it manage to explains to assure desicions before marrying someone
to find happiness.
2. The dominant mood of the main character is to give happiness or to become happy when the satisfied
wedding is to be occured. It affects the readers by means of gathering some of her logic opinion and
beliefs which is true to life and possible to be expirienced.
Only in poetry
Theme and Genre
1. The first stanza suggests that a poem is created out of a challenging experience as the speaker relates
this creative process of poem-making to a long and lonely day of a typical farmer on a rice-field. What
can a reader benefit from this craft created from a challenging experience? What kind of connection can
he or she make to benefit and better appreciate poetry?
2. The speaker describes the unveiling of hidden meaning of a poem as a continuously slow movement
from heaven and earth? What do heaven and earth symbolize in this stanza? How do these symbols
relate to the process of interpreting a poem? How is the allusion of Adam searching for Eve recounted
this process of interpretation?
3. The third stanza narrates a poet’s struggle in conveying his or her message to the readers.
Characterize this struggle. How should a poet approach this struggle to overcome it? How does the
image in the fourth stanza communicate the outcome of overcoming this struggle?
4. To which do the “iron fingers of Time” in the fifth stanza pertain? What effects can it bring to the lives
of the readers?
5. What does the concluding stanza suggest on the nature of poetry?
6. What is metapoetry? How does this literary piece serve as a metapoem?
Answers;
1. Challenging expirience can enhanced the mindset and heart of every individuals where it maximize
their feelings to improve all of his or her belief to attain goal in life. The connection very appropriate is
to look more respect to those who already experienced it.
2. The heaven and earth symbolized the powerful and yhe powerless which collide to biased scenario of
being weak and strong. As the allusion of Adam and Eve being notifed maybe it introduce the power of
women above men.
3. It shows a peaceful mind where it focus of becoming positive at any struggle in life. To overcome
those struggle the amount of faith and hardwork would be maintained as high in numbers.
4. The iron fingers of time means the luck is hard to catch up. It affects the readers to feel lonely about
who expirienced it.
5. Poetry is to express feelings and emotions in a way that only those who manage to understand your
emotions can understand your purpose and respect what you believed.
6.
Literary Approach: Reader-response Criticism
3. Which emotion have you experienced often drive you to write a poem? What happens to this
emotion after writing poetry?
4. Which subject or idea do you find meaningful whenever you read poetry? How does this subject or
idea relate to your experience?
5. Is there a poem which you had read before that changed your perspective in life? What changes have
occurred to you as a person upon reading this poem?4
Answers;
3. I think the emotion is being in pain and being inlove. Then after I write a poem I feel great because I
express those feelings in a matter way.
4. The subject meaningful for me in poetry is the true to life pain and dillemas. It affects my personality
to make some decisions sometimes it manage me to pick something right to be done.
5. Yes but I dont actually remind its title but It makes me change when it tackles about the shortage of
foods of biased world also the inequality management that open my eyes.
The bird of a poem
Personification
1. What human characteristics are endowed to the subject of this literary work?
2. What effect does this endowment of human characteristics bring to the subject of the poem and to
the reader?
3. How does the use of personification help in conveying the central idea of this metapoem?
Answers;
1. Suffering is the human characteristic endowed to the subject of this literary work.
2. It makes the poem gain more feelings as well as logic about the dillemas of the persona. It affects the
readers to think that if he or she is in that situation it is hard to make any movement to prevent
suffering.
3. Using personification the clues of the metapoem can manage to reveal what it is going to express.
Literary Approach: Deconstructionism
1. Who owns the experience brought by poetry – the author, the persona, or the reader? Make an
argument on this issue.5
Answer;
1. For me it is the persona , its because the poem consist personification which relies to the persona as
being who expirience the event being discuss or express in that literary pieces. Topic being express by
making it complicated and it is very obvious that persona is being the person who experience it.

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attitude toward marriage?

4. Marriage is happiness and the way to find joy

towards this situation? Explain.

story? How does this mood affect the readers?2

Post Reading Activity

Theme and Genre

5. What does the concluding stanza suggest on the nature of poetry?

6. What is metapoetry? How does this literary piece serve as a metapoem?

Literary Approach: Reader-response Criticism

Post Reading Activity

Literary Approach: Deconstructionism

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