Literature expresses through words the splendor and pathos of living and dying. By recreating our world, it gives freedom. By possessing power over time, it grants immortality. Balagtas, Rizal, and Corazon de Jesus embody that mystique. And it is good, in this month of hearts, to chant their songs of love.
The action was also simple. Florante was freed by Alladin from the hungry lions and Adolfo was killed by the arrows of Flerida to save Laura from rape—no supernatural machinations, no epic battles. The compelling beauty was its poetry. Its compelling message was simplicity—the imagined characters were masks. Balagtas himself was speaking.
Rizal was born in 1861, a year before the death of Balagtas. His patriotic credo is etched in the eternal language of his 1882 poem when he was 21 years old: “Love of country, once it has entered the heart, can never be expunged because it bears a divine mark that makes it eternal and imperishable.”, Rizal had no use for masks. He boldly exposed the afflictions of his country and flung them straight into the face of the Spaniards.
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