"My Reaction Paper on like the Molave"

LIKE THE MOLAVE I 1940)

By: Rafael Zulueta da Costa

Not yet, Rizal, not yet. Sleep not in peace;

There are a thousand waters to be spanned;

There are a thousand mountains to be crossed;

There are a thousand cross to be borne.

Our shoulders are not strong; our sinews are

Grown flaccid with dependence, smug with ease

Under another‘s wing. Rest not in peace;

Not yet, Rizal, not yet. The land has need

Of young blood and, what younger than your own,

Forever spilled in the great name of freedom.

Forever oblate on the altar of

The free? Not you alone, Rizal. O souls

And spirits of the martyred brave - arise!

Arise and scour the land! Shed once again

Your willing blood! Infuse the vibrant red

Into our thin anemic veins; until

We pick up your Promethean tools and strong,

Out of the depthless matrix of your faith

In us, and on the silent cliffs of freedom,

We carve, for all time your marmoreal dream!

Until our people, seeing, are become

Like the Molave, firm, resilient, staunch

Rising on the hillside, unafraid,

Strong in its own fiber; yes, like the Molave!

Not yet,Rizal,not yet. The glory hour will come 

Out of the silent dreaming 

from the seven thousand fold silence 

We shall emerge, saying WE ARE FILIPINOS! 

and no longer be ashamed

 sleep not in peace 

the dream is not yet fully carved

 hard the wood but harder the woods 

yet the molave will stand 

yet the molave monument will rise

 and god's walk on brown legs 

1^st stanza it sees that Rizal cannot rest yet because we are still very dependent on others and we need to become independent.

2^nd stanza it sees that the Philippines needs young people’s blood like Rizal so we can have the courage to fight for the country and we can have true freedom.

3^rd stanza it sees that Rizal cannot be alone. Heroes also need to help. They have to cleanse the land of our problems and they are inspiring us to be like them so that we can be like the molave.

4^th stanza it sees that So out of the dream, all of us Filipinos will be courageous enough already saying that WE ARE FILIPINOS and no longer be worried.

5^th stanza it sees that The dream is not yet finished, we might be like the heroes but there are harder problems yet we will stand up and change that always and once and for all, we have become like gods.

My reaction about this poem is a beautiful poem that i have encountered in my life because this is very interesting poem that Rizal made and  it that likens the youth and vigor of the Philippines youth to the beautiful Filipino Molave tree. In the poem, strong images of hard work, suffering, and bloodshed evoke the difficult life of the poorer classes in the Philippines, and the poet wishes that these generations to generation of young people will show the eventual strength, beauty, and longevity as a fully- grown Molave tree.