"Fall Of Icarus": Microcosm Of Contemporary Philippines
In the present, our country is amidst issues and dilemmas: ZTE Broadband deal, the case of Sumilao farmers, unemployment, and many more. Moreover, problems are also seen outside the country's borders: war, unemployment, hunger, and the like. Many solutions have been suggested to ameliorate what has been happening in this world. For example, in Ateneo, the religious sectors have been conducting prayer vigils to support the witnesses in the ZTE deal and to fight with the Sumilao farmers in reclaiming their land. But, do the students in the Ateneo join the prayer vigils and rallies in Katipunan to show support for truth and accountability? Or they just go home after school, watching movies on their widescreen television? Are they aware that other people are suffering? This tragic fact lies within W.H. Auden's poem entitled "Musée des Beaux Arts". The poem basically relays a simple message: humankind's suffering through indifference. In order to convey such message, the poet uses......
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