{"id":9534,"date":"2022-11-11T20:29:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T01:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/?p=9534"},"modified":"2022-11-11T20:29:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T01:29:01","slug":"jasmine-thompson-week-12-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/2022\/11\/11\/jasmine-thompson-week-12-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasmine Thompson Week 12 Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the article &#8220;How to Read a Poem&#8221; written by William Carlos Williams, he acknowledges the challenges of reading poetry. The readers must &#8220;complete&#8221; what the poet has begun. This week the poem that I am choosing to speak about is &#8220;White Lies&#8221; by Natasha Trethewey. This poem is about all the &#8220;white lies&#8221; the speaker told during her childhood, as the poem progresses the story becomes less innocent. The speaker uses spondee in the third line of the poem &#8220;light-bright, near-white&#8221; which first introduces us to the racial theme of the poem. The speaker goes on to talk about her &#8220;white lies&#8221; as she is identified as white by one of her classmates &#8220;\u2018\u2026the time a white girl said (squeezing my hand),\u00a0<em>Now we have three of us in this class<\/em>. But I paid for it every time Mama found out.&#8221; The speaker was happy to be seen as white but in doing that she was denying her black mother. Her &#8220;white lies&#8221; symbolize the innocence of the lies she told but also symbolize the thing she is literally lying about which is that she is not 100% white. I did some research on the poet and she was half black and half white and this gives a little insight to the identity issues she faced growing up being mixed. I feel that the poet did a great job at displaying those emotions in the poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the article &#8220;How to Read a Poem&#8221; written by William Carlos Williams, he acknowledges the challenges of reading poetry. The readers must &#8220;complete&#8221; what the poet has begun. This week the poem that I am choosing to speak about is &#8220;White Lies&#8221; by Natasha Trethewey. This poem is about all the &#8220;white lies&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-12-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9535,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions\/9535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}