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To MS. C.O. y. R

To MS. C.O. y. R. Interpreted By: Rod Jasper A. Gacayan and Josef Joshua Valdez. This poem was dedicated to Consuelo Ortiga y Rey, the daughter of Don Pablo Ortiga y Rey, a former Mayor of Manila.

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To MS. C.O. y. R

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  1. To MS. C.O. y. R Interpreted By: Rod Jasper A. Gacayan and Josef Joshua Valdez

  2. This poem was dedicated to Consuelo Ortiga y Rey, the daughter of Don Pablo Ortiga y Rey, a former Mayor of Manila. The hero probably fell in love with her and the lady apparently asked him for romantic verses: instead he gave her this discordant and stark poem.

  3. Who: Dedicated to Consuelo Ortiga y Rey Where: Madrid, Manila When: Time of Rizal; Before Leonor Rivera What: A Poem Why: Rizal fell in love with Consuelo

  4. Why ask for those unintellectual verses that once, insane with grief, I sang aghast? Or are you maybe throwing in my face my rank ingratitude, my bitter past? The man refused to make romantic verses that was once rejected and unappreciated and it makes him bitter only if reminded of such.

  5. Why resurrect unhappy memories now when the heart awaits from love a sign Or call the night when the day begins to smile, not knowing if another day will shine? The man tries to tell the lady that there’s no need to talk about of his past, and that he is ready to love again and that, if she will accept his love to her.

  6. You wish to learn the cause of this despair that anguish wove? You wish to know the wherefore of such sorrows, and why, a young soul, I sing not of love? The lady wants to know why he is in such pain, the fact he may find another love again.

  7. Oh, may you never why! For the reason brings melancholy but may set you laughing. Down with the corpse into the grave shall go another corpse that’s buried in my stuffing! Something impossible, ambition, madness, dreams of soul, a passion and its throes… Oh, drink the nectar that life has to offer and let bitter dregs in peace repose! The man refused to reveal how he suffered from his past that she might only laugh at him but instead she has to look into the love he is offering to her.

  8. Again I feel the impenetrable shadows shrouding the soul with the thick veils of night: a mere bud only, not a lovely flower, because it’s destitute of air and light… This time again, the man feels like he would be rejected or the lady will not response to his lover offering.

  9. Behold them: my poor verses, my damned brood – and sorrow suckled each and every brat! Oh, they know well to what they owe their being, and maybe they themselves will tell you what. The chance of man relies on the verses he made for the lady, expecting she would answer to his love offering.

  10. Interpretation as a whole The man rejects to make romantic verses asked by the lady that was once unappreciated and unwanted. The man also tries to tell the lady the lady that he is ready to love again in spite of his suffering from the past that involves Leonor Rivera. The chance of the man depends from his romantic verses, hoping that the lady would answer his love offering.

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