The Finality of All Things Part 5

POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM-Poem

The Maiden

Your ebony hair falls in waves

Upon sun-kissed shoulders

brown, the warmth inviting

like shores unexplored

inviting, secretly waiting

for your conqueror.

He comes unexpectedly

Thus, does your smile fade

 white shackles bind you,

 his feet at your tender throat,

your eyes, blossoming with tears

-held captive by a beast,

the young maiden,

my Philippines,

defiled.

Note: Postcolonial criticism is the anlysis of work produced in colonies and counties subjected to foreign rule.  In Asia, the Philippines is an example of such-it was colonized by Spain early on. The Philippines is portrayed as a maiden who is defiled by “white invaders”-them being the Spanish people who for some time oppressed the Filipino people.