Poetry is not really my forte. However, my ability in reading poems have improved a little. I can identify some of the literary devices use and tries to understand what it means. I enjoy reading poetry even though I cannot grasp what it means. Poetry in my experience can help with the reading of Oedipus the King by understanding it’s structure and literary devices use. Poetry also allows the readers to engage more deeply with the themes such as fate. The poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B Yeats resonates with the play Oedipus the King. Both explore the desire to escape from reality. “I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:” in The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B Yeats. In the poem, the speaker longs for peace in nature, while Oedipus tries to escape his tragic fate.
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Hello, thanks for sharing your thoughts on poetry. I get what you mean, sometimes I understand it, and other times I’m just lost. I usually have to read a poem a bunch of times before it clicks in my head. But I’ve noticed that the more I do it, the better I’m getting at figuring them out, which is cool. This helped me with reading “Oedipus the King” too, since I’m starting to pick up on emotions and themes.
Can you be specific about some of the literary devices you feel more comfortable with?