The cry awoke Balintawak
And the echoes answered back…
“Freedom”!
All the four winds listened long
To the shrieking of that song….
“Freedom”!
I heard it from the planters in the vales…
I heard it from the traders tying bales…
I heard it where the fishers strike their sails…
“Freedom”!
Every poet struck his lyre
With those burning notes of fire…
“Freedom”!
All the women knelt to pray
In their hearts that frenzied lay…
“Freedom”!
E’en the children and the old
Took to arms and shouted bold
“Freedom”!
I heard it from the huskers’ neath the trees…
I heard it from the divers of the sea…
I heard it from the pounders in the leas…
“Freedom”!
All the people raised the cry
Fearing not to bleed or die…
“Freedom”!
Up the mountain, down the plain,
Louder, louder rang the strain
“Freedom”!
All the tombs of slave and sire
Broke to voice that great desire…
“Freedom”!
I heard it from the makers of the brooms…
I heard it from the weavers at their looms…
I heard it from the smoking smithy rooms.
“Freedom”!
From the temples, from the shrines,
From the bosom of the mines…
“Freedom”!
Kris and bolo flashed in light,
Thunder-voices air did smite…
“Freedom”!
Muscles sound and spirit strong
Broke the chains with metal song.
“Freedom”!
I heard it in the bullet’s whine and roar…
I heard it in the farthest islet shore…
I heard it and shall hear it ever more…
“Freedom”!
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ReplyDeleteIt so won
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ReplyDeletehi! we've been memorizing this poem since the first month of this school year. . and then we got a play and presentation in our school. .we are praised by our teachers and schoolmates. .! thanks for the 1986 ! we already know the true meaning of the poem,..
ReplyDeleteWhats the meaning of the poem?
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DeleteWhat happened to Balintawak? Why are they crying for freedom?
ReplyDeletebalintawak is in the phillipines that time peaple are suffering for freedom beacause of the torture and corruption and until now
DeleteI was memorizing this
DeleteIn my school
Because the Filipinos dint have freedom
DeleteIn the old days
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ReplyDeleteNice Bro!
ReplyDeleteNice we memorize it to our speach choir
ReplyDeletewho is the speaker of this poem? and who are the audience?
ReplyDeleteWhat group of people shouted freedom?
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DeleteI'm from the Philippines
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ReplyDeleteano bayung pinaglalaban nila?
ReplyDeleteUng puso mo ayieee
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ReplyDeleteHahahah sana all
DeleteWhat does the last line suggest?
ReplyDeleteWhen did the cry of balintawak take place
ReplyDeleteWhere can i see the answers?
Deletewhat groups of people are being referred from the poem? what does it mean?
ReplyDeleteAs a filipino what will be your propaganda to make your fellow filipinos appreciate the sacrifices of our national heroes and katipunero
ReplyDeleteI memorized this in school and we had Choral recotation
ReplyDeleteI find this difficult to understand. It's not the meaning of the poem that I'm referring to, it's the when was it written. I was wondering if this was made during the Spanish occupation or is it just signifying that 1896 was when it happened. Does anyone happen to know? I cant really seem to find the date.
ReplyDeleteThe Cry of Balintawak occurred on August 26, 1896. The Cry, defined as that turning point when the Filipinos finally refused Spanish colonial dominion over the Philippine Islands. With tears in their eyes, the people as one man, pulled out their cedulas and tore them into pieces.
Delete1.What was the poem all about?
ReplyDelete2.What groups of people shouted for freedom?
3.Does the poem try to represent the common sentiment of Filipinos during the time we were colonized?
4.What trait of Filipinos is being depicted in the poem?
5.What does the entire poem want to convey?
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