Before these past two weeks, I never really got into poetry. I thought it was just about rhyming and trying to impress someone special. But thanks to Professor Conway, I’ve started seeing poetry in a whole new way, and it’s actually pretty cool. I’ve found out that poetry comes in all sorts of styles, with deep meanings and beautiful layers that make reading so interesting. Take Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” for example. It’s about that quiet moment of thinking between wanting to disappear into the peaceful darkness of the woods and needing to keep promises. This struggle is a lot like what Oedipus faces in Oedipus the King, where he battles between his fate and his choices. Then there’s Browning’s “My Last Duchess,” which cleverly shows the Duke’s controlling nature through his words—just like how Oedipus reveals his weaknesses through his actions. Even though I didn’t know these poems before because my country has a different school program, and it’s a bit tougher for me since I’m still learning English, diving into poetry has helped me better understand themes, characters, and symbols in plays like Oedipus the King. It’s been an eye-opening experience.
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I have always had a love for poetry and a special love for the story of Oedipus it was one of the first plays i read in high school . After the 2 weeks of poetry with professor Conway I have learned to interpret poetry on a much deeper level . In poetry you have to go through each line to find the hidden meanings of the authors words . I have learned to never read poetry at face value and dig deeper . This time around as we read Oedipus in class I think I will be able to fully grasp the gravity of the situation Oedipus finds himself in and not just read this story like lines on a paper but create a movie in my head with all the characters involved. The poem the mother by gwendolyn brooks is the poem that resonates with me in regards to Oedipus . I say this because from what we have read so far the city that Oedipus rules is currently dealing with a plague that is affecting mothers . The mothers in the city are mourning their children and death consumes them , as with the mother in the poem . Although one mothers child was taken by a plague and the other by the mothers choices no one pain amounts to another ,
At first, I thought poems were only just stories. But when I read them, I learned that poems have lots of meanings. With those meanings, I can learned a lot of vocabulary and what the main idea is. The only thing you had to do while reading a poem is not to stop reading mid-sentence. You had to stop if there is a comma, a period or if you’re at the end of the sentence. With poetry, I have to practice reading multiple times without stopping in the middle. For the play “Opedius the King”, I decided to do the part of the wife of the king. But unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time, to get to read my part.
At first, I thought poem was just like stories. But when I started reading it, I quickly realized that poem is packed with meanings. And with those meanings came with a lot of words I do not know meaning of. Then I’ve learned that the only reason to pause is when there is comma, period etc. and usually that is not at the end of the line. With poetry I need to read the poem multiple times to understand it. Oedipus the King is structure approximately the same, so I’m ready to read it with confidence. I would say 8 out of 10 is my ability to read it. The Play resonates with Shakespear “Sonnet 18” poem to me, it feels like they written in the same manner (except the fact the author of the Play doesn’t say how great he is). There is so much classic drama, pride, and irony of fate in the Play and in the Sonnet,
