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Here, Shakespeare uses organic imagery to describe Romeo's deep love for Juliet by comparing it to the boundless sea.

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Melc 3: Discuss How Different Contexts Enhance The Text's Meaning and Enrich The Reader's Understanding

Here, Shakespeare uses organic imagery to describe Romeo's deep love for Juliet by comparing it to the boundless sea.

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MELC

MELC 3: Discuss how different


contexts enhance the text’s meaning
and enrich the reader’s
understanding.
OBJECTVES
At the end of the lesson, you should be
able to:
1. identify words, ideas, structure, and
purpose of the text;
2. explore the different social and socio-
cultural contexts to enhance and enrich the
understanding of the text; and
3. appreciate the importance of
understanding the literary context and its
Context and
Text’s
Meaning
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Take Note
To understand and appreciate a
literary selection, the reader must
understand the contexts in which it
was written.
CONTEXT
 illuminates the meaning and relevance of the text
 circumstances that form the setting of events,
statements, or ideas and in the way of which it can
be fully understood and assessed
 provides meaning and clarity to the intended
message
 a bridge between the writer and the reader that
clarifies a text’s meaning and purpose
Types
of
Context
Writer’s/Author’s Context
 knowing about the writer's life, values,
assumptions, gender, race, race, sexual
orientation, and the political and economic
issues related to the author
Reader’s Context
 about the reader's previous reading
experience, values, assumptions, political and
economic issues.
Text’s Context
 includes publishing history
 part of the larger text such as newspaper,
history, events, translated in it
Social Context
 a text feature the society in which the
characters live and in which the author's text
was produced
Padre Faura Witnesses the Execution
of Rizal
Danton Remoto
I stand on the roof Of the Ateneo And on this day
municipal, With the years beginning to turn,
Salt things my eyes.
Shivering I see Pepe,
A blur
On this December morning. Months ago, Between the soldiers
With their Mausers raised
Pepe came to me And the early morning’s Star:
Still shimmering
In the observatory. Even if millons of miles away,
The star itself
Is already dead

I thought we would talk

About the stars


Essential Questions:
1. Who are the characters in the poem?
2. Who speaks in the poem? Extract a sentence from the poem
to prove your answer.
3. What was the situation when Padre Faura stood in the
balcony of Ateneo de Manila?
4. What was the situation of our country based on the poem?
Prove your answer by extracting a line from the poem. ?
Essential Questions:
5. To whom is the poem addressed? Explain your answer.
6. How do you feel while reading the poem, that Padre Faura
witnessed the execution of his former student?
7. What was the feeling displayed by the author in the poem?
8. What was the message that Danton Remoto wanted to
convey in this poem?
IMAGERY
IMAGERY
 language that appeals to senses
 creating mental picture using
language
 Includes figurative and
metaphorical language
Examples
 The autumn leaves are a blanket on the
ground.
 His words felt like a dagger in my heart.
 My head is pounding like a drum.
Types of Imagery
 Visual imagery produced by the use of words
that appeal to the sense of sight.
Types of Imagery
 Examples:
1. The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit
up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations
which were sprinkled across the astronomical
landscape.

2. “A field of cotton—

as if the moon 

had flowered.”

Matsuo Bashō, from Basho: The Complete Haiku,


Types of Imagery
 Auditory Imagery produced by the use of
words that appeal to the sense of hearing.
 Silence was broken by the peal of piano keys as
Shannon began practicing her concerto.
 (Here, auditory imagery breaks silence with the
beautiful sound of piano keys.)
Types of Imagery
 Example:
PORTER:

“Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of

hell-gate, he should have old turning the key.


Knock

Knock, knock, knock, knock! Who’s there,’ the name


of

Belzebub?

-Macbeth by William Shakespeare


Types of Imagery
 Kinesthetic imagery produced by the use of
words that appeal to the actions and
movement.
Types of Imagery
 Example
“At last, swooping at a street corner by a
fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening
little jolt, and there was a loud city from a
number of voices, and the horses reared and
plunged.”

Charles Dickens, excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities.


Types of Imagery
 Gustatory: appeals to the sense of taste by
describing whether something is sweet, salty,
savory, spicy, or sour.
 Example: Her mouth watered, and her tongue
burned as she bit into the sour, peppery mango
chow.
Types of Imagery
 Tactile: appeals to the sense of touch by describing
how something physically feels, such as its
temperature, texture, or other sensation.
 Example:

“And now (how shall I describe it?), now all was


still. Still, as when some pain ceases. A
peculiarly perceptible, prickling stillness, as if
a wound were healing.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, excerpt from Journal of My


Other Self.
Types of Imagery
Olfactory: appeals to the sense of smell by describing
something’s fragrance or odor.
 Example:

“The flower shop was here and it was my father’s


domain, but it was also marvelously other, this
place heavy with the drowsy scent of velvet-petaled
roses and Provencal freesias in the middle of
winter, the damp-earth spring fragrance of just-
watered azaleas and cyclamen all mixed up with the
headachey smell of bitter chocolate.”
Types of Imagery
Organic Imagery: refers to descriptions of internal
sensation. When the writer uses concrete description
to show an internal landscape of feelings, pains,
emotions, and desires, they’re using organic imagery.
 Example:

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as


deep.” Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

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