Poems for Thought
Poems for Thought
A Reaction to F.Sionil Jose's Why We Are Shallow
By Raphael Lactao BSEd - English Student In all the heated arguments and pithy analyzations about the papers given to us by our professor, F. Sionil Jose’s “Why we are shallow” had the most different number of interpretations. We have read plenty of academic papers by venerable researchers and educators, but I did not expect that the great minds in our classroom would become turbulent because of a newspaper article from the literary section. Some thought about it hardly, and some hardly thought about it, and some just over-analyzed the trivial matters in the paper. The thing is, when you read a literary article, you should not be thinking at all, you should be in a meditative state that causes you to process the words, sentences, and paragraphs in a way that you would not judge it at first glance because it is somebody else’s experience. F Sionil Jose did not write that with any form of intellectual back-up or provisions, because he had no need for such, for he only wrote from...
