mi ultimo adios
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MI ULTIMO ADIOS
A PRESENTATION BY:
ELENA B. EGANGAN, MA SOCIAL STUDIES
WHAT?
MI ULTIMO ADIOSMY LAST FAREWELLANG AKING HULING
PAALAM
RIZAL DID NOT INSCRIBE A TITLE TO HIS POEM
MARIANO PONCE TITLED IT MI ULTIMO
PENSAMIENTO
UNTITLED, UNDATED AND UNSIGNED LAST POEM OF
RIZAL
WHO?
DR. JOSE PROTACIO MERCADO RIZAL
ALONZO Y REALONDA
WHEN? IT WAS WRITTEN ON THE
EVE OF HIS EXECUTION ON DECEMBER 30, 1896
WHERE?
FORT SANTIAGO
WHY?
AS A FINAL STATEMENT TO HIS FELLOW FILIPINO COUNTRYMEN.
FIRST STANZA: THE PATRIOT SAYS HIS FINAL FAREWELL TO HIS NATIVE LAND, DESCRIBING IT AS “PEARL OF THE ORIENT SEAS, OUR EDEN LOST.”
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
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.
PRAY FOR THOSE THAT HAPLESS HAVE DIED
“IN DEATH THERE IS REST”
POEM READ IN US HR
End of Presentation