Like A Molave/Coordinating Conjunctions

HELLO!

Mechanics of the Game

Divide the class into two groups.

Each group will be assigned to

arrange the pieces of puzzle to them.

Each participating group will be given

one minute to form the puzzle. After

solving the puzzle, one member of

the group will shout “puzzle the title”.

The leading group will have the

chance to guess the title of the

poem out of the puzzle. If the group

fails to guess the correct title, the

chance will be given to the second

leading group.

The group who could give the

correct title will be declared as the

winner.

BY RAFAEL ZULUETA DA

COSTA

Not yet, Rizal, not yet.

Sleep not in peace:

There are a thousand

waters to be spanned;

There are a thousand

mountains to be

crossed;

There are a thousand

crosses to be borne.

Our shoulders are not

strong; our sinews are

grown flaccid with

dependence, smug

with ease under

another's wing. Rest

not in peace;

Not yet, Rizal, not yet.

The land has need

of young blood-and, what

younger than your own,

Forever spilled in the

great name of freedom,

Forever oblate on the altar of

the free? Not you alone,

Rizal. O souls

And spirits of the martyred

brave, arise!

Arise and scour the land!

Shed once again

your willing blood! Infuse the

vibrant red

into our thin anemic veins;

Until we pick up your

Promethean tools and,

strong,

Out of the depthless matrix of

your faith

in us,

and on the silent cliffs of

freedom,

we carve for all time your

marmoreal dream!

Until our people, seeing, are

become like the Molave,

firm, resilient, staunch,

rising on the hillside,

unafraid,

Strong in its own fiber, yes,

like the Molave!

Spanned

”There are a thousand waters to be spanned ”

- to cross over something, to

cover

Borne

“There are a thousand crosses to be borne”

-carried by

Sinews

“Our shoulders are not strong; our sinews are

grown flaccid with dependence”

- solid resilient strength;

the chief supporting force

Flaccid

“our sinews aregrown flaccid with dependence”

-not firm; lacking vigor or

force

Smug

“smug with ease

under another's wing”

-highly self-satisfied

Oblate

“Forever oblate on the altar of

the free? “

- flattened or depressed at

the poles

Scour

“Arise and scour the land!“

- dig; to clear

Infuse

“Infuse the vibrant red

into our thin anemic veins”

- to be filled with something

Promethean

“we pick up your Promethean tools-and, strong”

- relating or resembling

Prometheus, his experiences or

his art

Marmoreal

“we carve for all time your marmoreal dream!”

- of relating to or suggestive

of a marble or a marble statue

Matrix

“Out of the depthless matrix of your faith”

-something within or from which

something else originates,

develops, or takes form

Resilient

“Until our people, seeing, are become

like the Molave, firm, resilient, staunch”

- abe to become strong, healthy, or

successful again after something

bad happens

Staunch

“Until our people, seeing, are become

like the Molave, firm, resilient, staunch”

-very devoted or loyal to a

person, belief , or cause

What does the author want to imply in

these lines,

Not yet, Rizal, not yet. Sleep not in

peace:

There are a thousand waters to be

spanned;

there are a thousand mountains to be

crossed;

there are a thousand crosses to be

borne.

Why did the author choose

the molave as the ideal

symbol for the Filipino

people?

What does these lines mean?

Our shoulders are not strong;

our sinews are

grown flaccid with dependence,

smug with ease

under another's wing.

What is the significant

message of the poem?