mi ultimo adios

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