RC

1. Nationalism Through
Literary Works
Rizal’s To the Flowers of Heidelberg and Love of Country

2. RIZAL AS A WRITER
political JOSE
atmosphere RIZAL
European
literature
European Novels / Poetry /
essays
philosophy

3. RIZAL AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE
JOHN LOCKE FRIEDRICH BENITO PÉREZ
WILHELM GALDÓS
JOSEPH VON
SCHELLING

4. RIZAL AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE
VICTOR HUGO FRIEDRICH FRANCOIS-
SCHILLER MARIE AROUET
DE VOLTAIRE

5. RIZAL AS A WRITER
Costumbrismo is a Spanish literary
movement which shows local customs and
traditions.

6. EL AMOR PATRIO
El Amor Patrio or
Love of Country was
Rizal’s first
Pagibig sa
nationalistic essay Tinubuang Lupa
written outside the
Philippines. What is
the message of the
Pagibig
essay? saTinubuang Lupa
El Amor Patrio

7. Pag-ibig saTinubuang Lupa
Aling pag-ibig pa ang hihigit kaya Kayong mga pusong kusang (pugal)
sa pagka-dalisay at pagka-dakila ng dagat at bagsik ng ganid na asal,
gaya ng pag-ibig sa tinubuang lupa? ngayon magbangon’t baya’y itanghal
Alin pag-ibig pa? Wala na nga, wala. agawin sa kuko ng mga sukaban.
Ulit-ulitin mang basahin ng isip Kayong mga dukhang walang tanging
at isa-isahing talastasing pilit (lasap)
ang salita’t buhay na limbag at titik kundi ang mabuhay sa dalita’t hirap,
ng isang katauhan ito’y namamasid. ampunin ang bayan kung nasa ay lunas
sapagkat ang ginhawa niya ay sa lahat.
Banal na pag-ibig pag ikaw ang nukal
sa tapat na puso ng sino’t alinman, Ipaghandog-handog ang buong pag-ibig
imbit taong gubat, maralita’t hanggang sa mga dugo’y ubusang itigis
mangmang kung sa pagtatanggol, buhay ay (mailit)
nagiging dakila at iginagalang. ito’y kapalaran at tunay na langit..

8. Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa
Political detainees of
1970’s used several
lines of the poem to
create one of the era’s
finest song. A product of
19th century call for
freedom, Rizal and
Bonifacio’s idea of
freedom have
transcended time.

9. 19TH
CENTURY
PHILIPPINE NATIONALISM
• NATIONALISM is national
consciousness exalting identity and
culture.
• Compare and Contrast nationalism
of 19th century to contemporary
time.
• What theme did Bonifacio take
from Rizal’s essay?

10. TO THE FLOWERS OF
HEIDELBERG
Go to my country, go, O foreign flowers,
sown by the traveler along the road,
and under that blue heaven
that watches over my loved ones,
recount the devotion
the pilgrim nurses for his native sod!
Go and say say that when dawn
opened your chalices for the first time
beside the icy Neckar,
you saw him silent beside you,
thinking of her constant vernal clime.

11. TO THE FLOWERS OF
HEIDELBERG
Say that when dawn
which steals your aroma
was whispering playful love songs to your young
sweet petals, he, too, murmured
canticles of love in his native tongue;
that in the morning when the sun first traces
the topmost peak of Koenigssthul in gold
and with a mild warmth raises
to life again the valley, the glade, the forest,
he hails that sun, still in its dawning,
that in his country in full zenith blazes.

12. TO THE FLOWERS OF
HEIDELBERG
And tell of that day
when he collected you along the way
among the ruins of a feudal castle,
on the banks of the Neckar, or in a forest nook.
Recount the words he said
as, with great care,
between the pages of a worn-out book
he pressed the flexible petals that he took.

13. TO THE FLOWERS OF
HEIDELBERG
Carry, carry, O flowers,
my love to my loved ones,
peace to my country and its fecund loam,
faith to its men and virtue to its women,
health to the gracious beings
that dwell within the sacred paternal home.
When you reach that shore,
deposit the kiss I gave you
on the wings of the wind above
that with the wind it may rove
and I may kiss all that I worship, honor and love!

14. TO THE FLOWERS OF
HEIDELBERG
But O you will arrive there, flowers,
and you will keep perhaps your vivid hues;
but far from your native heroic earth
to which you owe your life and worth,
your fragrances you will lose!
For fragrance is a spirit that never can forsake
and never forgets the sky that saw its birth.

15. SPOLARIUM
Juan Luna won the first prize award in the
Exposicion Bellas en Artes.

16. • What did Rizal say to arouse the suspicion
of the Spaniards in Manila?
• How did Rizal connect Luna and Hidalgo’s
achievement to Filipino skills and
capabilities?