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\u201cReading a poem is part attitude and part technique.\u201c In order to understand a poem, the reader has to get into it and read it as they feel it, paying attention to the language and tone of the poem, which would be the attitude. As well as having a technique to help understand such as looking up confusing words, connecting related ideas, listening to its sound and rhythm and paying attention to repeated words and literary techniques used by the author.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n In William Shakespeare\u2019s Sonnet 130 \u201cMy Mistress\u2019 Eyes are Nothing Like The Sun\u201d the author uses irony to emphasize the beauty of his mistress, by comparing her to things that show she\u2019s not perfect but he still loves her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCoral is far more red than her lips’ red;<\/span><\/p>\n If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;<\/span><\/p>\n If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head\u201d (Shakespeare lines 2-4)<\/span><\/p>\n It took me a while to understand because I wasn\u2019t really getting the point, but then I realized he was comparing her and being realistic about the woman he loves, as many poems try to idealize and exaggerate woman\u2019s beauty, he did the opposite. My attitude while reading this changed after I read it a few times, at first I was confused, then i read it as a love poem and my technique was just reading it and trying to figure out the author’s message, technique and ideas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cReading a poem is part attitude and part technique.\u201c In order to understand a poem, the reader has to get into it and read it as they feel it, paying attention to the language and tone of the poem, which would be the attitude. As well as having a technique to help understand such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7137,"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":{"0":"post-11449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-12-discussion","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11450,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions\/11450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}