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Let’s use literature so that we can understand the situation of people and how it can be further developed…. Literature is also what we can go back and use to end the war.
This April is Literature Month, and once again we will hear the famous saying that “literature is the mirror of society.” It may be good to consider its suitability so that we can expand and strengthen our celebration.
It is very important that it comes from Marx and Engels, who said that literature reflects (reflects) the material and class conditions of society. On the one hand, this is true because literature is a product of its time and the work has a deep connection with what is happening in society. We can say that literature does not exist in a vacuum. It’s always related to that.
Even here, we can say that the author is not satisfied with creating works that only reflect our society. The progressives knew that literature and art have the ability to change the existing conditions of society. Both the reader and the writer are not satisfied to see what is happening in their society in literature. There should also be action.
And if we look at the two currents of our history, our oral literature and revolutionary writings, it will be clearer. In our epics and other folk literature, the concept of community was passed down through the generations and strengthened by our ancestors. They connected their lives with epic heroes. It gave them a common origin and identity. They learned wisdom from parables and proverbs.
Until the victory, they continued to prepare for publications. This is a way of holding the original individuality in the face of colonialism. They combined poems and ancient ideas with prayers and other needs of the Church. They used literature so that every time you look in the mirror, even though the clothes are different, you still recognize the old self.
Our revolutionaries, like Rizal, Bonifacio, Jacinto, and Mabini, were also not satisfied with looking in the mirror. They used literature to consolidate Filipinos’ views of their country. They used different and not only examples. May volume The (distorted) vision of associating transcendence with possible goals if the abuse continues. Someone served us a spring like Bonifacio and Jacinto so that we can have a clear vision of a city that has fallen into darkness. Yes, it is still related to glass, but we use different properties of optics and vision to have a deeper understanding of our people and the world.
And here are other ways to see and relate: by looking in the mirror, for example, we can mother boat. There may be a witch behind the glass. We also need line gap or examine what we are looking at. Also be careful if there is drop off in looking, our eyes can be deceiving.
Let’s go back to being a mirror of society, let’s just remember that if we look at ourselves in the mirror when we read literature, we can be Narcissistic and obsessed with our own reflection and the world. Sometimes, even the “reflection” thought to be real is also just an illusion. And we know what Narsso is up to.
In fact, we should use literature so that we can understand the state of the city and how it can be further developed. It also shows us that we are not alone as an individual part of the ethnic linguistic group that is part of the Philippines. It always shows that there is Different. We have a mutual relationship. Even beyond this world in the vast possibility of the universe.
It is very important to understand the Other and our differences as our world continues to burn. Literature is also something that we can go back and use to end the war. We can’t do that if we only look in the mirror when we read. – Rappler.com
Roy Rene S. Cagaligan writes poetry and essays. He is a member of the Cultivation of Image, Rhetoric, and Form (LIRA). He is a cultural worker.
