Interpretation of to the Filipino Youth

1. By: Harold Eugene Q. Urmaza

2. 3rd • To The Filipino
Poem Youth
4th • They Ask Me for
Poem Verses

3. 3rd
• University of Santo Tomas
Where • Presented in Manila Lyceum of Art and
Literature
• 1879
When • At the age of 18 yrs. old
For • Filipino Youth

4. To have self- confidence
Youth as the Hope of the Nation
Asks the Filipino youth
Raise your standards & aim high

5. humble yourselves
Fight with knowledge
free yourselves from
Deception
to see for yourselves how the Spaniards
prosper in our home land and see how the
Filipinos suffer from it.

6. Rise up and seek what
your heart desires
You are the voice of
change and comfort

7. You give hope and life.
your intelligence is for
forever
Pertains to the Filipino youth who
make something

8. Go and spread to the
world how great
Filipinos are
Thank your country for
nurturing you

9. 4th
• Madrid
Where • Declaimed New Year’s Eve at the
reception of the Madrid Filipinos
When • Upon joining Circulo Hispano-Filipino
• Declaimed December 31, 1882
For • Upon request of the Circulo Hispano-
Filipino members

10. They ask him to write a
poem but founds it to be
difficult
Can’t find inspiration
His mind is in confusion
he can’t feel nor express
himself well while writing in a very
sad state

11. memories from
the past that he
cherish and longs for
that he won’t forget.

12. He is talking about his
homeland and the pain
of leaving
His inspirations in writing

13. Memories of his
homeland in his
childhood days
How bad he wants the
world to know about his
countries beauty

14. He left his homeland not
because he desires
He want to change his
fate
He seeks prosperity but in the
process he felt sadness

15. He had left behind his own
desires in his homeland
as he continues that path
he suffers and feels death
to his spirit