Landscape
Balagtas, Beyond The Language Issue
By GEMMA CRUZ ARANETA
April 4, 2012, 5:38pm
When “Florante at Laura,” the most famous work of Francisco Baltazar, was taught to us in the 1960’s, it was presented as a kind of epic poem in metric romance style situated in the faraway kingdom of Albania, a convoluted story of love, a clash of cultures colored with political rivalry. The Tagalog of Balagtas was a tongue twister with archaic punctuation but some of us did commit to memory the poignant stanza we did not fully comprehend:.... MORE
Source: MB.com
URL: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/356305/balagtas-beyond-the-language-issue