• Ma. Karolina Espejo• Bernadette Ann Ching• Julian Lorenzo Eijansantos• Alfred Dunhill Mananquil

Otherwise known as…

The Simile

Deaf Poets Society

• A Simile is a figure of speech in which things different in kind or quality are compared by the use of the words as or like.

• We can use similes to make descriptions more emphatic or vivid.

What is a Simile?

Examples:

Julian: Karolina, you are as beautiful as these flowers.

Alfred: Berna, your smile is like the sun!

Landscape II by Carlos A. Angeles

Who is Carlos A. Angeles?

• He was born on May 25, 1921 in Tacloban City, Leyte,

• Studied in UP in 1941 where he became a member of the UP Writers' Club.

• In 1964, received first prize in the prestigious Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature for his collection of poems, A Stun of Jewels.

• A Stun Of Jewels comprised of 47 poems and dedicated to Angeles' wife, also won the Republic Cultural Heritage Award for Literature.

• His collection of poems:

Carlos A. AngelesA Bruise of AshesCollected Poems1940-1992

Landscape II by Carlos A. Angeles

LANDSCAPE II Sun in the knifed horizon bleeds the sky,Spilling a peacock stain upon the sand,Across some murdered rocks refuse to die.It is your absence touches my sad handsBlinded like flags in the wreck of air.

And catacombs of cloud enshroud the coolAnd calm involvement of the darkened plains,The stunted mourners here: and her, a fullAnd universal tenderness which drainsThe sucked and golden breath of sky,comes bare,

Now, while the dark basins the void of space,Some sudden crickets, ambushing me near,Discover vowels of your whispered face and subtly cry.I touch your absence hereremembering the speeches of your hair.

Carlos A. Angeles

3 stanzas

16 lines

The word sky mentioned twice

The word absence also mentioned twice

Rhymes:

• sky and die• sand and hands• cool and full• plains and drains• near and here

LANDSCAPE IIBy Carlos A. Angeles

Sun in the knifed horizon bleeds the sky,Spilling a peacock stain upon the sand,Across some murdered rocks refuse to die.It is your absence touches my sad handsBlinded like flags in the wreck of air.

And catacombs of cloud enshroud the coolAnd calm involvement of the darkened plains,The stunted mourners here: and her, a fullAnd universal tenderness which drainsThe sucked and golden breath of sky,comes bare,

Now, while the dark basins the void of space,Some sudden crickets, ambushing me near,Discover vowels of your whispered face and subtly cry.I touch your absence hereremembering the speeches of your hair.

PersonificationPersonification & hyperbole

ParadoxMetonymy & Personification

Simile

Metaphor

hyperbole

ParadoxPersonification

Personification

Metaphor

PersonificationUtterance

Personification

Personification

How the poem affected us:

What we feel in the poem is a sadness that a man feels. It talks of an absence that is felt more and more as the sun sets.

It seems that the poem is saying something about the death of a loved one, and how it greatly affects the person who is still alive.

Sources:

http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/simileterm.htm

http://www.panitikan.com.ph/authors/a/cangeles.htm