JOLOGRAPHY

 Bonsato, Alona N. BSED-ENGLISH 3A One Night   by: Ann Gray One Night is an elegy from the wife which is the speaker, who had dreamed of her husband who is already dead. The wife seems not yet over with her dead husband, the memories keeps on banging to the wife's mind and so she seen her husband in her surreal dream. From the elegy, it described the series of action that the husband did in the speaker's dream.  It was one night when the wife saw her husband noicelessly removed his sock. Then, she saw his husband went into the drawers wondering with his clothes and his wardrobe. Afterwards, her husband lift the photos and he seems wondering with the faces on the picture, and later on realized that his son is already married. Finally, the wife noticed her husband went to the bathroom and do his routine and then her husband came closed to her asking " what happened?" and she replied " how long have you got?"  The exchange of question by the speaker and her hus...

 Bonsato, Alona N. BSED-ENGLISH 3A ANALYSIS :  The poem Jolography written by Jose Manalo seems like describing the language and the style of communication that some Filipinos are using especially in the area of Manila. The people being described in the poem were also called as "Jologs" refering to a person who talks using the language of both mixed English and Filipino. As I observed in the poem, some  words are exaggeratedly used in communication. Maybe the people being described in the poem are trying to speak English without making sense of their grammar.  The scenario in the poem somehow comparable to the common scenario when we Filipinos are talking to "foreigners" who visited in our country. There are times that these foreigners asked us for the location and we, Filipinos tried our best to answer their question in the basic English we knew without really giving care to our grammar and pronunciation because we, ourselves struggling to use the English language....