LOVE OF COUNTRY

(Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Bayan)

(El Amor Partio)
By: Jose Rizal
LOVE OF COUNTRY/PAG-IBIG SA
TINUBUANG BAYAN/ EL AMOR PATRIA
 Rizal wrote this essay in Spain-June 1882
 He wrote his essay when he was 21 years old
 It was published under the name of Laong Laan in Diariong
Tagalog Manila (August 20,1882)
 In La Solidaridad in Madrid on 31st October 1890
 It inspired a plebian Manileno named Andres Bonifacio to
write a poem faithfully echoing it.
 Titled Pag-ibig Sa Tinubuang Lupa (Love of the Native Land),
Bonifacio’s long Tagalog poem.
 It was published in the Katipunan newspaper Kalayaan
(Liberty) in its first issue, January 18, 1896
 Its first, sixth, seventh, and eight stanzas were taken from the
preceding passages of El Amor Patrio.
1st Stanza

What other love that can

surpass In purity and in
greatness, The love of the
native land? What other
love? No, none there is.
6th Stanza

Why? What immense

possession is this That all
obedience to her is
tendered? And to make her
more esteemed ever,
Sacrificed even a life so
sacred.
7th Stanza

Ah! It is the native Land of

birth; She is the mother, and
from her only Was first seen
the pleasant rays of the sun
That gives warmth to the
callused body.
8th Stanza

Owed to her is the very first

taste Of the breeze that
gives remedy To the
aggrieved heart that
struggles In the depths of
grief and agony.
LOVE OF COUNTRY
 Bonifacio read this essay when he was 18
years old
 This was the first Rizal’s works that had

shapped and sharpen his political

convictions.
 The message of this essay is wisdom urged

the Filipinos to invest their time, strength and

knowledge for motherland.
LOVE OF COUNTRY
 Silvestre Ubaldo
 Brother-in-Law of Rizal
 Cautioned him in a letter dated Jan. 19, 1883

LETTER OF SILVESTRE UBALDO

“The news I have heard about you is that you are
allegedly hated by those in white robes(friars)
because of what was published in Diariong Tagalog,
which you wrote while you were still in Barcelona; so
take care there; it is advisable that you be careful as
it seems that you are now in their black list.”
LOVE OF COUNTRY
 The idea of dying for the country
reverberated in Rizal’s writings.
 In a letter to Mariano Ponce, he declared:

“If one has to die, at least one must die in his

own country, by his country, and for his
country.”