Author

Rafael Zulueta da Costa (born 1915) is a Filipino poet. He uses the name R. Zulueta da Costa as a writer, and Rafael Zulueta as a businessman. He was a graduate of De La Salle College (now University) where he specialized in business administration. He began writing poems in Spanish and later he also wrote in English. His most famous work is Like the Molave and Other Poems, which won the Commonwealth Literary Award for Poetry in 1940.

2. Molave is a strong and huge tree that will never sway at typhoon times. We will scrutinize the message of his speech in a general thought. His message focuses on lifting up the people’s courage to become vigorous, strong, resilient, and staunch. People must be strong and have the fighting spirit to conquer nation’s battle. The adjectives that grow the nation are for the people to become righteous, self-disciplined, brave and patriotic. Life’s chasms must be empowered with the survival to the fittest. Moreover, the speech touches the lives of the Filipino people to stand and be like a molave at troubled times.

3. The poem entitled Like the Molave was written by Rafael Zulueta Da Costa. It explains why Dr. Jose Rizal, the Philippine national hero, must wait for his dream of the Filipino youth to be the future leaders of the land. i think its the author itself. He expresses his thoughts,feelings or emotions by writing a poem. He wants the Filipinos especially Rizal, to wake up and start to make a move to claim the freedom of the Philippines. His poem inspires so many Filipinos to fight back and come up with ideas.

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5. The country for a long time depends on the youth.
6. Independence