3rd Republic

B. FILIPINO POETRY

Poems during this period of the Third Republic were romantic and revolutionary

C. FILIPINO SONGS

Many Filipinos songs with themes that were really true-to-life like those of grief, poverty, aspirations for freedom, love of God, of country and of fellowmen.

G. CHILDREN'S BOOK

The Children’s Communication Center (CCC) directed by poet and writer Virgilio S. Almario, already has built up an impressive collection of these kinds of books.

Books of the Period

1982: PLAYS FOR CHILDREN

by James B. Reuter S.J

1983: STORY TELLING FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

1983: JOSE AND CARDO

by Peggy Corr Manuel

1984: GATAN and TALAW

by Jaime Alipit Montero

" Period of The Third Republic "

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Oppression and Suppression

this was further aggravated when former Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr. the idol of the Filipino Masses whom they hoped to be the next president who was brutally murdered on August 21, 2983

1981-1985

After ten years of military rule and some changes in the life of the Filipino which started under the New Society,

Martial Rule was at last lifted on January 2, 1981.

A. THE PALANCA AWARDS

The Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for literature which was launched in 1950 , continued its recognition of the best in the literary fields –poetry, short story, essays, and the one and three-act plays.

In 1984, the Palanca Awards started choosing the best in novel writing. This contest, held every three years, gives time for local writers to write more beautiful and quality works. The next contest on the best novel was held in 1987. La Tondeña continues to be its sponsor.

Philippines became a new nation, former President Marcos called

“The New Republic of the Philippines"

A historian called this the "Third Republic".

• 1st Republic: he claimed during the Philippine Republic of Emilio Aguinaldo.

• 2nd Republic: Americans granted us our independence on July 4, 1946.

• 3rd Republic: we were freed from Military Rule. During this period, it cannot be denied that many people seethed with rebellion and protest because of the continued oppression and suppression.

D. PHILIPPINE FILMS DURING THIS PERIOD

The yearly festival of Filipino Films continued to be held during this period.

E. POETRY IN ENGLISH DURING THE THIRD REPUBLIC

Most especially, during the wake of the tragic Benigno Aquino Jr.'s incident.

Alfredo Navarro Salanga, a consistent writer of Philippine Panorama Magazine in his column " Post-Pradal Reflections" aptly said it: “darkness in the mind and soul is how some forgotten poet puts it. Its suddenness was so profound that we couldn’t but react to it in any other way.”

I. THE STATE OF PHILIPPINES LITERATURE IN ENGLISH AT THIS TIME

H. (PROSE) Fables

Isagani Cruz, writing abut Philippine literature in the " Age of Ninoy".

The people cry of protest found outlet not onlyy in poetry but also in veiled prose fables

F. MEDIA OF 1983

"It was a year of ferment, and change, of old problems made more oppressive by the new throbbing beat of the times.”

- Sheila S. Coronel, PANORAMA staff

For journalists, it was a year loaded with libel charges, lawsuits and seditious trials which they gallantly bore as harassment suits.

1. The Crown Jewels of Heezenhurst by Sylvia Mendez Ventura

2. The Emperor's New Underwear by Meynardo A. Macaraig

3. The King's Cold by Babeth Lolarga

4. The Case of the Missing Charisma ( Unfinished ) by Sylvia L. Mayuga

• Change in the direction of greater consciousness in content and form.

• Change in the number of readers and the number of writers and the kind of class of writers. Writers who joined the ranks came not only from the established or professional groups but from all ranks –clerks, secretaries, drivers, housewives, students; in short, the masses.

• The resurgence of Balagtasismo and the continued dominance of Modernismo. While Balagtasismo turned its back on the American challenge to Philippine literature its conservative conventions, Modernismo adapted Americanization for its own ends.

• The birth of a new poetic movement still dims in outline.

• The apparent merging of the erstwhile separate streams of oral and written literature.