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Rhapsodies
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From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
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Antinostalgia & the Tokhang
Rhapsodies
Poems 2022
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From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
Notes, Quotes, Gallery, Sundry
Hero's re-burial in Bataan
Araw ni Balagtas, Buwan ng Panitikan
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Marne's Café
Francisco Balagtas' symbolic remains was conveyed in an urn aboard a horse-driven hearse.
The cortege was escorted by a Senior Scouts honor guard and a marching band.
NCCA and KWF Chairman National Artist Virgilio S. Almario, assisted by provincial
and town officials, sealed the urn in a niche within the pedestal of the monument.
Police honor guard saluted as the "taps" was being played and gun salutes were fired.
(4 April 2018, Orion, Bataan) —
Francisco Balagtas, the Filipino literary giant and author of the immortal Florante at Laura was given a hero’s “burial” on 2 April 2018, Monday, his 230th birth anniversary, in this town . Balagtas is acknowledged as the poet-hero that planted the seeds of the Philippine Revolution of 1896.
His epic “awit” or metrical romance,Florante at Laura, marked a peak in Filipino poetry due to the heightened literary skills of its author and its vivid and compelling allegory on the colonial abuses of the Spanish government. The poem inspired Jose Rizal to write his twin subversive novels Noli me Tangereand El Filibusterismo,and Andres Bonifacio and the other heroes to mount a revolution against Spain.
In very solemn ceremonies consisting of a funeral procession and formal interment, the symbolic remains of the “Prince of Tagalog Poets’” was sealed into a niche in the pedestal of his monument in Hardin ni Balagtas located at the seaside in Barangay Wawa, Orion. The re-burial also marked the poet’s 230th birth anniversary.
Leading the ceremonies were National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) Chairman Virgilio S. Almario, Bataan Governor Albert Garcia, and representatives from the National Book Development Board (NBDB), and other government cultural agencies and workers.
NCCA and KWF are also leading the popularization of the honorific title for Balatas as the “Bayani ng Harayang Filipino” or “Hero of the Filipino Imagination,” in recognition of the leading roles of thinkers, writers, and other creative people in working for change in society.
The poet-hero’s symbolic remains consisted of soil from the San Miguel cemetery, contained in an urn and was carried in a hearse, which was a gilded and glass-walled funeral carriage pulled by a horse in ceremonial plumage. Prominent local officials and citizens, and school children joined the symbolic cortège or funeral procession. A marching band lead the horse-driven funeral car.
The “taps” or bugle call for military funerals was played as the urn for the symbolic remains was
Balagtas’ influence on the Philippine evolution of 1896 has long been acknowledged by other Filipino heroes, from Marcel H. del Pilar, who wrote his biting anit-friar satires in Tagalo; Emilio Jacinto, who wrote the Kartilya ng Katipunan which is not only a membership tract but a guide for an honorable life; and Apolinario Mabini, who wrote the Florante at Laurafrom memory while he was in exile in Guam.
While Balagtas was born in Bigaa, Bulacan province on April 2, 1788, he later moved to Udyong (or Orion to the Spaniards), Bataan in 1840, where he resided until his death in 1862.
While still in Bulacan he learned to write poetry under Jose de la Cruz or “Huseng Sisiw.” Later he resided in Pandacan, Manila, where he is thought to have completed his epic metrical romance
Florante at Laura.
He was later widowed and found his second bride, Juana Tiambeng, in his second home of Udyong, where he is thought to have produced other literary works, including the komedyaor play Orosman at Zafira.
