Dr. Jose Rizal’s My Last Farewell: Last Notes Before His Execution

Mi ultimo good day (Spanishfor My Last Farewell) is a songwritten byPhilippine matter hero DrJose Rizalon the eve of hisexecutionon 30 December 1896. This numbers was integrity of the put out notes he wrote before his death another(prenominal) that he had written was found in his shoe further because the text was illegible, its content remains a mystery. Title Rizal did not ascribe a title to his poem. Mariano Ponce, his jockstrap and fellow reformist, titled itMi ult Pensamiento(My Last Thought) in the copies he distri yeted, but this did not catch on. On the by and bynoon of Dec. 29, 1896, a day before his execution, Dr.Jose Rizal was visited by his mother, Teodora Alonzo, sisters Lucia, Josefa, Trinidad, Maria and Narcisa, and two nephews. When they took their leave, Rizal told Trinidad in face that there was something in the small inebriant range of a function (cocinilla), not alcohol lamp (lamparilla). The stove was given to Narcisa by the guard when the fellowship was intimately to board their carriage in the courtyard. At home, the Rizal ladies recoered from the stove a folded paper. On it was written an unsigned, untitled and undatable poem of 14 five-line stanzas. The Rizals reproduced copies of the poem and direct them to Rizals champions in the awkward and abroad.In 1897, Mariano Ponce in Hong Kong had the poem printed with the title Mi past Pensamiento. Fr. Mariano Dacanay, who received a copy of the poem while a prisoner in Bilibid (jail), publi spend it in the first come on ofLa Independenciaon Sept. 25, 1898 with the title ultimo Adios. 1 The stove was not delivered until later on the execution as Rizal needed it to flicker the room. This 14-stanza poem of Jose Rizal talks roughly his Goodbyes to his respectable Fatherland where his love is reachd to. He wrote it on the change surface before his execution. Farewell, in force(p) Fatherland, clime of the sun caressd Pearl of the designate seas, our Eden lost Gladly no wadays I go to give thee this washed-out lifes best, And were it brighter, fresher, or more goddamned quiet down would I give it thee, nor count the cost. On the field of battle, mid the frenzy of fight, Others grow given their lives, without doubt or forethought The place matters not-cypress or laurel or lily white, Scaffold or open plain, beleaguer or martyrdoms p clean, T is ever the same, to service our home and outlandishs need. Interpretation The first stanza speaks about Rizals exquisite description of his Fatherland. He utilize the biblical Eden to distinguish the Pre-Hispanic Philippines which is an imaginary time of purity and innocence.He adores the beautiful pastoral that he and others are conflict for. He utter that he is rejoicing to give his life to Filipinas even though his life was brighter, fresher, or more blest than it isnow pertaining to the time when he wrote the poem. The blurb stanza speaks about the men who gave their life to his beloved gr ound. Rizal verbalise that their dedication and patriotism to the country is without second thoughts. It doesnt matter how one struggles, that all struggles, all deaths, are cost it if it is for the good of the country. The third stanza speaks about Rizals love of liberty.The image of dawn that Rizal used in the first line signifies the run that he adores. In the third and 4th line, he says that if the colour of liberation lacks his blood, he must die for the country to give away freedom. The fourth stanza presents the flashback of Rizals love for the patria that started when he was young. He was young when he saw the martyrdom of the GOMBURZA and promised that he would dedicate himself to retaliate one day for those victims. His dreams were to see his country in eminent liberation, free from gloominess and grief. The fifth stanza repeats Rizals dream of unadulterated liberation. All Hail signifies that he is positively welcoming the dawn of freedom after his death. He to a fault repeats what he has said in the third stanza that it is his desire to dedicate his life to the Patria. The sixth stanza describes the image of Rizals grave being bury someday. The grass corresponding sod may work the countrys development, the growth of liberty, and that with the buyback of the country, he becomes forgotten. Rizal does not say here that he indirect requests monuments, streets, or schools in his name, just a fond kiss and a cranky breath so he could come up he is not forgotten.In the seventh stanza, Rizal says he wants to see or feel the moon, dawn, wind, and a bird everyplace his grave. The moons beam may represent a night without its gloom like a country without its oppressors. The imagery of dawn has been restate here and its radiant flashes represent the luster light of redemption that sheds over his honour. save the wind pass on lament over his grave. The bird does not lament him but sings of quiet, the peace that comes with liberation and the peace with which he rests below.In the eighth stanza, the metaphor of the sun plan the vapors up to the sky signifies that the man is being cleansed by the sun like taking away the sorrows and tears that has shed including his last cry. Line 3 reminds us to remember why he died for the redemption of the country. And he wants to hear a supplicant in the still evening evening because he may also want to see a beam of light from the moon which he stated in the stanza 7, and that it is before thedawn. Prayers he stated that allow for make him rest in peace in Gods hands.Rizal said in the ninth stanza that he also wants his fellowmen to also pray for others who also ingest died and suffered for the country. Also pray for the mothers, the orphans and widows, and the captives who also postulate cried and have tortured, and again, for his soul to rest in peace. The tenth stanza says that Rizals tomb is on the graveyard with the other dead people. Rizal says that in the night, he does not want to be disturbed in his rest on with the others and the mystery the graveyard contains. And whenever we hear a sad song emanating from the grave, it is he who sings for his fatherland.In the eleventh stanza, Rizal says a request that his ashes be circularise by the plough before it will no longer take significance. His ashes represent his thoughts, words, and philosophy making it his intellectual remains. The symbolic ashes should be spread all over Filipinas to fertilize the new free country long after he is forgotten. The twelfth stanza again speaks about being forgotten but Rizal does not care about it anymore. Oblivion does not matter for he would travel far and wide over his beloved fatherland. He keeps his faith with him as he sings his hymn for the nation.Rizal says goodbye to his adored Fatherland in the thirteenth stanza. He gives goodbye to his parents, friends, and the small children. He gives everything to Filipinas. Now, he satisfies his death by sayi ng he will be discharge to a place where there is peace no slaves, no oppressors, no killed faith. He is going to a place where God rules over not the tyrants. Finally, in the last stanza, Rizal cries his part to all his fellowmen his childhood friends, and his sweet friend that lightened his way. In the last line, he repeats that In Death there is rest which agent that he, being ready to be executed, is quick-witted to die in peace.