Thinking About Poems

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subject of the poem, it often breaks into two sentences at the end of the second line, and the rhythm
tends to be entertainingly irregular.
What is the overall the
message of of the poem poem?
The overall message “The song of Maria Clara” is about loving our own country like the way we love
our mother.  It expresses how wonderful everything is in one’s own Native Land. The poem likens the experience of
living in one's own country to the comforts felt from a mother's presence, nothing moments spent while on native
land are invaluable.

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All there is friendly o'er which the sun shines above;

And deathly is the breeze for one without
A country, without a mother and without love.
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that it rexpresses that death is full of sorrow if one has no
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country, mother and love. And also every minute of our lives is as wonderful
as living in our own country.

What es this a
mak poem?
This is a poem that encourages one to love his own country, as he loves his
mother. It also tells us that, like a mother, only your native country will love
o

you and accept you from who you are.

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y wr poem? do y sug this?
The Prose of The Song of Maria Clara was written to instill a sense of
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nationalism in the Filipinos who read it.

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of this
Filipino people to the reality that they were being oppressed.

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the Spaniards already colonized the Philippines by cruelty and malice.

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