Jose P. Rizal's works: Relations and Reviews.

The young Rizal

Rizal’s works were really full of interpretations and meaning which does not only satisfies our delight in poetry, but also opens our eyes about our struggle within a society.  One of Rizal’s works that I like is in tiled “To My Fellow Children” or in Tagalog, “Sa Aking Mga Kababata”. In this poem, Rizal is talking personally to his fellow youth to bear the conscience of a true nationalist, love of country in a patriotic way and by respecting their own native language.


 He teaches the youth that by upholding our own language even in an environment of a foreign tongue, is an act of heroism and loyalty in owns country.

He also explained that people who do not have the heart of loving his native tongue is comparable to a rotten fish. I perceived that Rizal compared us like  fishes, the water where we are living is our language and if we decided to leave our native tongue in exchange of another, a foreign language, which is not our natural habitat, we will perish and become rotten.

Another work of Rizal that I like is “A Tribute to My Town”. In this poem, Rizal tried to describe his life as a youth in the bosom of his birth place. Here I see how he really admired and loved his country, how he wants his country to be perfect living place for his people and have the freedom to do things in own place. Also in this work he showed his own nationalism and thankfulness in a place which nurtured him to become a true Filipino.

I  relate the poem “To My Fellow Children” with “A tribute to My Town”which is also a poem by Rizal because both of this works portrayed nationalism, the idea that the beauty of ones people and the grandeur of  his country can be appreciated by loving both of them and we should not be ashamed of our own culture, but instead be thankful to the almighty God that he gave as such blessings. Furthermore, our native tongues represents how elegant and prosperous our country have been. Nevertheless, Rizal believed that, “the youth is the hope of our country”. Both of these poems teaches the youth how to love and respect his own dialect and his birth place in order for other to respect and love him in return.

Rizal’s works were mainly about his Country, his fellowmen and God. What really Rizal wants us to see in all his poems, novels, paintings, sculpture and many others is by being nationalistic, a lover of nature, a lover of your fellowmen and a lover of God will lead us to a true path in achieving  the real freedom not only of our own motherland, but also of our hearts.