{"id":9543,"date":"2022-11-11T23:54:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T04:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/?p=9543"},"modified":"2022-11-11T23:54:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T04:54:55","slug":"matthew-hui-discussion-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/2022\/11\/11\/matthew-hui-discussion-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Hui Discussion 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout my years of reading literature and specifically poetry has been a struggle to understand fully. In the article \u201cHow to Read a Poem\u201d written by William Carlos Williams, He tells us about how difficult poetry often is to read and that to fully understand a poem we have to &#8220;complete&#8221; what the poet began. He tells us &#8220;This act of completion begins when you enter the imaginative play of a poem, bringing to it your experience and point of view.&#8221; The poem that I have chosen to &#8220;complete&#8221; this week is &#8220;We Real Cool&#8221; by Gwendolyn Brooks. On the surface, it seems like a really simple and to-the-point poem with it being so short but it tells a deeper story. I completed this poem by putting myself into the shoes of one of the seven boys in the poem. The lines <span class=\"long-line\">&#8220;We <\/span><span class=\"long-line\">Left school. <\/span><span class=\"long-line\">We <\/span><span class=\"long-line\">Lurk late.&#8221; and &#8220;<\/span><span class=\"long-line\">We <\/span><span class=\"long-line\">Die soon.&#8221; stuck out to me the most because it does not say explicitly in the poem that they were kids rebelling against what they should do and that it could come with serious consequences such as death. But when I put myself into the position they were in it seems much clearer that Brooks was trying to portray this message.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout my years of reading literature and specifically poetry has been a struggle to understand fully. In the article \u201cHow to Read a Poem\u201d written by William Carlos Williams, He tells us about how difficult poetry often is to read and that to fully understand a poem we have to &#8220;complete&#8221; what the poet began. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6264,"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-9543","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\/9543","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\/6264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9546,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions\/9546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9543"}],"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=9543"},{"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=9543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}