INK By: Guillermo Castillo
Ink bottled in glass prison meaningless in itself
black and mute without a language silent but strongly urged to speak.
Ink Chance-impressed on white, Inarticulate, unintelligible, chaotic
Welcome on bareness of white, But still foreign Excommunicate
But Ink, Pen-lifted, pen-impressed on blank white paper,
Will-ordered, Interprets, intensifies, clarifies, Expresses LIFE.
Interpretation
Elements of the poem 1. Audience
Poet
Reader
Elements of the poem 2. Subject
“Ink, An instrument for expression”
Elements of the poem 3. Theme “Expression”
Elements of the poem 4. Tone “Ironic”
Elements of the poem 5. Diction / Words Chance-impressed inarticulate
Unintelligible Chaotic excommunicate
Elements of the poem 6. Figures of Speech
Type of poem •
Lyric
Symbolism Ink
But Ink,
bottled in glass prison
Pen-lifted, pen-impressed
meaningless in itself
on blank white paper,
black and mute without a language
Will-ordered, Interprets, intensifies, clarifies,
silent but strongly urged
Expresses
to speak.
LIFE.
Ink Chance-impressed on white, Inarticulate, unintelligible, chaotic Welcome on bareness of white, But still foreign Excommunicate
Author and his Life Guillermo Castillo was from Pangasinan studied Philosophy at UP became an editor of Pio Calicas’s Philippines – an elegant prewar magazine one of the chief exponents of free verse in the Philippines during the WWII He has an unpublished collection of verses entitled “Filipino, Unlimited”
