21st Century Literature Outputs

 I GOT FLOWERS TODAY BY: PAULETTE KELLY https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8VOsoflh0WU/hqdefault.jpg     The poem entitled I got flowers today! by Paulette Kelly represents feminism, especially how women experience tragic life, domestic violence, and adversity, from a man or their husband.     The poem is all about the life of an abused woman with the gift of flowers used as an apology for a tortured life, rather than a symbol of love and affection, this poem wants to awaken us that other men are abusive to their women or wife, this poem wants us to open our mind that we need to have respect to woman, we need to love them not to torture, we need to do our best to make them happy and not to make them cry, and we need to treasured and take care of them.     In life, every person having a life is very important so we need to have equality, equality of rights, so women will get respect and not experience domestic violence, so as a man we need to love, and give attenti...

 A POPPY BY: PETER HOWARD https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52138291796_528ea65d55_b.jpg     The poem entitled A Poppy wants us to know how war is a destroyer of the life of people, this poem wants us to all know that we need to stop war because war is all about blood, death, guns, bombs, and adversity.     Like what this poem represents, they use different kinds of flowers to represent what happened in the war, by the representation of different kinds of flowers we can know that life of people having a war is worst especially in past, or in our ancestor's age because war is full of blood, adversity, deaths in the road, shots of the guns and exploding of the bombs.      That's why we need to open our eyes that to stop a war and to have peace, all the countries need to have teamwork and talk about the problems like in a family so the problems easily solve, especially now at we are in the modern era we all need to do something so war can stop and ...

A LETTER TO PEDRO ALSO CALLED PETE BY: RENE ESTELLA AMPER   https://mielhontucan.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/man-reading-letter-big-properly-sized2-handwritllc.png     The poem entitled A letter to Pedro also called Pete by Rene Estella Amper serves as a letter of awakening to the ongoing crisis in the Philippines that we are facing because of the unwillingness of its people to be the instigators of the change the country desperately needs to solve its problems by staying in the Philippines and helping life it up from its degradation or in simplest word this poem want us to open our eyes that our country is experiencing a lot of social issues and the one who does it is us, HUMANS.     The poem is all about social issues, especially corruption which is very relevant in our country, many high positions that have been elected is corrupt they are the one who makes the life of many people worse, they use the money of people as their personal wants, and they use all t...

FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH BY: JOSE GARCIA VILLA   https://media-temporary.preziusercontent.com/frames-public/e/f/c/a/f/e014e594ada8966aec89e16a2a9_1_0_380.jpeg     Footnote to Youth by Jose Garcia Villa is a story that teaches us a moral lesson that discharging one's responsibilities at various phases of life is not as easy as it may seem at first, also this story wants to give a piece of information to the youth that in early age having a family is not easy that's why in choosing the path we need to decide carefully so there is no repentance happened, and some social issues.     Like what happened in the story where Dodong has a family at an early age and their life is not easy because they don't have stable jobs and they have children need to feed, but when his son becomes a teenager he also wants to have a family at an early age that's why Dodong think that he doesn't want to have his son a family already because life is not easy but he doesn't want to break his son ...

 THE VISITATION OF THE GODS BY: GILDA CORDERO-FERNANDO https://0901.static.prezi.com/preview/v2/2x2tnuevz2iduyzqpbjsunatpd6jc3sachvcdoaizecfr3dnitcq_3_0.png     The story entitled The Visitation of the Gods by Gilda Cordero-Fernando gives us a moral lesson that Doesn't mind the people telling you what to do, though they have good intentions, your decision is more important so follow your HEART, and don't give up in your profession.     Like Ms. Noel, she is beautiful and righteous. She doesn't try to achieve a higher position by getting the favor of her superiors. As a result, she isn't liked by some of the teachers in Pugad Lawin, because of her righteousness she always does what is right and always believed in what that is, even though many people will dislike her and there is happening where she will give up on her profession but she thinks to the students that needed her like Leon.     That's why in our life we need to choose what is right and neve...

 THE LAST LEAF BY: O. HENRY https://ynezandrea.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/maxresdefault.jpg      The story The Last Leaf by O. Henry reminds us that we should never lose hope quickly. It also teaches us the meaning of true friendship, sacrifices, and being an optimistic and positive person.     The story starts with two girls who love painting and one of the girls which are Johnsy always thinks negative things and is hopeless and that causes harm to herself that's why she gets ill and sick, and he said that after the leaf in the tree outside of her mirror fall, she also dies, that's why his friend talk to Mr. Bernham their also, she said that Johnsy already loses hope and she thinks after the leaf fall she has also died, but after they talk Mr. Bernham go outside in the middle of the night where the weather is not okay because there is a typhoon that causes a lot of harm to their village and Johnsy think that the Typhoon will be the one that causes to fall...

DEAD STARS BY: PAZ MARQUEZ BENITEZ https://steemitimages.com/1280x0/https://img.esteem.ws/vrqomat5z4.jpg      The story entitled Dead Stars by Paz Marquez Benitez gives us a lesson about Forbidden Love, it says that forbidden love is only apparent, and its banes haunt the person until such time that he realizes his faults. this story also wants to say that we should focus on the real and the possible, and not be distracted by fantasies.     Like what happened to the story revolves around one man which is Alfredo Salazar and the affairs of his heart, He falls in love first with his fiance Esperanza but when he sees Julia he falls in love also to her, but after years she met again Julia but his feelings now are disappeared like the dead star where the light of it is slowly disappeared, and we called it infatuation and that is what alfredo feel to Julia that's why his feelings easily disappeared.     That's why in our life we need to be content with what ...

 HOW MY BROTHER LEON BROUGHT HOME A WIFE BY: MANUEL ARGUILLA  https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshelf.com.ph%2Fproducts%2Febook-how-my-brother-leon-brought-home-a-wife-by-manuel-arguilla&psig=AOvVaw2chwexTNvvnNzziyawCG6o&ust=1671087802788000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCKCS66vF-PsCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAm     The story How My Brother Brought home a Wife by Manuel Arguilla, that "to endure journey sacrifices is necessary" or in other words, if you love someone you need to sacrifice for her/him so both of you will be happy forever.     The story told us how Maria was Brought up in a life of comfort in the city. However, she loved Leon truly and was committed to adapting to his lifestyle, she sacrifice for love. in the story also the father of Leon give the task to his brother name Baldo that who needs to challenge or test if Maria fits in their province and because Maria loves Leon she sacrifices for him.   ...

 SINIGANG  BY: MARIE AUBREY VILLACERAN https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DAjZPEkdgs1k&psig=AOvVaw3GLp2APY-ew_ZNu5Lky4P_&ust=1671087499205000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCLj2gJzE-PsCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE     The short story entitled Sinigang by Marie Aubrey J. Villaceran gives us a lesson that in life we need to "forgive and forget", or in other words, this story says that "when you forgive, you HEAL, and when you let go, you GROW.      Like what happened in the story tells how Liza, the main character, handled the issue of her father, who had an ongoing affair with Sylvia and thus had a son, Lem. Even though her father has an affair she forgives her father and the mother of her stepbrother which is Lem but before she forgives all of them, her stepbrother died first.     That's why this story wants to say that each one of us commits mistakes that can hurt anyone. Sometim...

  WEDDING DANCE  BY: AMADOR DAGUIO https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fa.wattpad.com%2Fcover%2F12755658-256-k725192.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcjchavez.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F09%2F17%2Fwedding-dance-by-amador-t-daguio%2F&tbnid=R-lmHXaL_jSoSM&vet=12ahUKEwjqjsqPxfj7AhVMx5QKHeQ6AYwQMygCegUIARDRAQ..i&docid=TMMLmnWBBLc3bM&w=256&h=400&q=wedding%20dance%20by%20amador%20daguio&ved=2ahUKEwjqjsqPxfj7AhVMx5QKHeQ6AYwQMygCegUIARDRAQ     The story Wedding dance by: Amador Daguio teach us a moral lesson that " if you truly love a person, you must let them be happy", and if many obstacles come in your life or in the life of both of you as a lover or in a relationship we need to give up on it even we love that person, especially if that obstacles or barrier are cultures, phenomenon, suffering, societal and love.     Like what happened to the story, Lumnay and Awiyao wrestle with this challenging issue. Despite how upsetting it ...