{"id":9485,"date":"2022-11-07T19:06:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/?p=9485"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:06:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:06:51","slug":"week-12-melissa-cordero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/2022\/11\/07\/week-12-melissa-cordero\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 12 &#8211; Melissa Cordero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the article, &#8220;How to Read a Poem&#8221; by Edward Hirsch, he describes the act of completion when reading poetry, is to step into the imaginative play of the poem.\u00a0 So as I read, &#8220;The Lake Isle of Innisfree&#8221; by W.B. Yeats, I took part of this imaginative play was by first reciting the poem at different tempos. To see if there was a rhythm I needed to find so I can find the flow of the poem.\u00a0 I tried different ones, like from how I would read &#8221; Mary had a little lamb&#8221;.\u00a0 I kept trying until there was a flow connecting the words that rhymed, which was every other line.\u00a0 I also found myself searching for a theme. I noticed there was a lot of mention of things that create sounds from nature. For example, &#8220;<span class=\"long-line\">Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; <\/span><span class=\"long-line\">There midnight&#8217;s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, <\/span><span class=\"long-line\">And evening full of the linnet&#8217;s wings.&#8221;\u00a0 or &#8221; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee; And live alone in the bee-loud glade.&#8221;\u00a0 As I re-read it, I found myself playing the sounds of nature he described, in my head to create the atmosphere. I, without trying, played along with the visuals given to me in the poem. Trying to bring it to life to see what about it felt peaceful. Every sound they found pleasant were low, fluttering and from nature.\u00a0 It almost felt like a picture puzzle in my head as I tried to envision the meaning. and feeling, through visualizing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the article, &#8220;How to Read a Poem&#8221; by Edward Hirsch, he describes the act of completion when reading poetry, is to step into the imaginative play of the poem.\u00a0 So as I read, &#8220;The Lake Isle of Innisfree&#8221; by W.B. Yeats, I took part of this imaginative play was by first reciting the poem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5950,"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-9485","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-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9486,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485\/revisions\/9486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}