Perspectives on Faith and Belief in the Selected Poems of Leoncio P. Deriada

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The study aims to determine the perspectives on faith and belief as revealed in the ten compiled poems of Leoncio P. Deriada. Furthermore, the research was conducted to find out how the nationalistic poems of the Visayan exquisite poetic writers have landed with mystical religious beliefs and nationalisticsentiments.

Also, the researcher made laborious efforts to analyze the literary devices or figures of speech used in the selected Visayan poems to enlighten the readers' insights and perspectives on the meanings between the lines of the poems.

METHODS

The research design was an analytical descriptive method of research to examine and analyze the ways the author or the poet creates a remarkable impact in the poem. It elevates the elements of interpretation that influences religious perspectives.

In order to find out the relevance of perspectives on faith and belief in selected Visayan poems, the researcher conducted a study of the ten collected poems of the prestigious and multi-awarded writer using figurative languages. And then, she carefully and persistently analyzed each of them.

RESULTS

Findings of the study revealed that Leoncio P. Deriadahas always written and translated free - versed regional poems with images and perspectives of mystical belief, especially in the forms of nature's wonders. The researcher also found out that the Visayan poets' perspectives on faith and belief bring home moral, spiritual and social underpinnings as it searches for Omnipotence, Filipinism and affinity with the description and consciousness with the regional milieus. Although these bear and resemble the sentiments, insights , aspirations and sensibilities of other Filipino poets, their perspectives on faith and belief are unique because they are Visayan writers and genuine.

DISCUSSIONS

There is a need for Visayan poetry writers to cultivate their inherent culture and to uphold their splendid religious beliefs in order to serve as an inspiration to other provincial poetry writers to patronize their native languages. Their creative poems reflect their perspectives of faith and belief in their regional milieus as essential components of their profound and rich cultural values. These can propagate nationalistic and patriotic Filipino sentiments and spirits which are salient factors for adept unity and progress amid changes and innovations