Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Regaining a lost heritage
Better to have loved and lost?
Dare to dream, at any cost?
Though hearts and spirits exhaust,
better to have loved and lost.
- Natalie
I'll leave it unannotated to allow the full breadth of her meaning come out since it's a very lovely short tanaga that could easily lift one's heart.
Resurrecting The Tanaga
The Tanaga is a type of short Filipino poem, consisting of four lines with seven syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of each line - that is to say a 7777 syllable form, with an AAAA rhyme pattern. It's almost a dying art!
The Modern Tanaga
Its modern counterpart, The Modern Tanaga, still uses the 7777 syllable count, but rhymes range from dual rhyme forms: AABB, ABAB, ABBA; to freestyle forms such as AAAB, BAAA, or ABCD. Tanagas do not have titles traditionally because the Tanaga should speak for itself. However, moderns can opt to give them titles.
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