1. MI ULTIMO ADIOS
A PRESENTATION BY:
ELENA B. EGANGAN, MA SOCIAL STUDIES

2. WHAT?
MI ULTIMO ADIOS
MY LAST FAREWELL
ANG AKING HULING PAALAM

3. RIZAL DID NOT INSCRIBE A
TITLE TO HIS POEM
MARIANO PONCE TITLED
IT
MI ULTIMO
PENSAMIENTO

4. UNTITLED, UNDATED AND
UNSIGNED LAST POEM OF
RIZAL

5. WHO?
DR. JOSE PROTACIO
MERCADO RIZAL ALONZO Y
REALONDA

6. WHEN?
IT WAS WRITTEN ON THE
EVE OF HIS EXECUTION ON
DECEMBER 30, 1896

7. WHERE?
FORT SANTIAGO

8. WHY?
AS A FINAL STATEMENT TO HIS
FELLOW FILIPINO COUNTRYMEN.

9. FIRST STANZA: THE PATRIOT
SAYS HIS FINAL FAREWELL TO
HIS NATIVE LAND,
DESCRIBING IT AS “PEARL OF
THE ORIENT SEAS, OUR EDEN
LOST.”

10. HE SAYS THAT HE IS GIVING HIS
“FADED” LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY,
AND EVEN IF HE WERE YOUNGER,
“BRIGHTER” AND MORE BLEST HE
WOULD STILL BE WILLING TO GIVE
HIS LIFE IN THIS CAUSE

11. OTHERS HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR COUNTRIES IN BATTLE
AND IN MARTYRDOM, AND IT DOES
NOT MATTER HOW THEY GAVE IT;
IT JUST MATTERS THAT THEY DID.

12. PRAY FOR THOSE THAT
HAPLESS HAVE DIED

13. “IN DEATH THERE IS REST”

14. POEM READ IN US HR

15. End of Presentation