I would rate my ability to read poetry after these past two weeks a 7. Reading the different poems and analyzing them really helped me understand the true meanings of poems, but I struggle with some here and there. Understanding the poem in general is always confusing and I need to reread a couple times and definitely annotate to get some ideas from it. I feel like my experience with poems can help with the reading of Oedipus the King because I’ve seen many different words and the definitions of them. This is one of the things I struggle with the most when it comes to poems, many of the poems I read use words and phrases that are from an old period of time, which we don’t use anymore. This always confuses me, but I think being able to read numerous poems these past two weeks that both show and don’t show it will help. Touching more upon the word choice and how I struggle with understanding it, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” because they both use certain words that I don’t understand. The difference between the two is that “Oedipus the King” uses those older words such as “thee” and more less, and, they added the definitions of not so common words on the bottom of each page which was useful to me as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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