The discourse of light in Allan Popa's Kundi akala: A deconstructive trope on the history of the centrality of light and the enlightenment

• Main Author: Cruz, Carlos Antonio M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Enlightenment; Poems > Collections; Poets; Filipino
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2275
• Institution: De La Salle University

This thesis analyzes five poems of Alla Popa, namely Liwanag Ayon kay Bonnard, Liwanag Ayon kay Monet Liwanag Ayon kay Hopper Liwanag Ayon kay de Chirico, and Liwanag Ayon kay Vermeer. These poems are a series taken from the book collection Kundi Akala. These will be discussed for their individual and overall discourse on the trope of light through the Deconstruction discourse of Jacques Derrida. In particular, this thesis wishes to analyze how and if the poem are able to turn the old trope of light and it's centrality in the western metaphysics of presence as exemplified in enlightenment thinking. According to Derrida these metaphysics of presence or origin assumes a primary self-validating metaphysical ground of presence by fixing this to an obscured or self blind metaphor. These poems are selected begin by latching on to light as trope and highlighting the deconstructive themes of indeterminacy implicit within. The study concludes that by inhabiting the ambiguities, tensions, and the paradoxes in the situation of the painters, Allan Popa is able to examine the aporias that exist, and most importantly, are uncovered and expressed by the projects of these painters.