{"id":18785,"date":"2025-03-16T16:26:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T20:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/?p=18785"},"modified":"2025-03-16T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T01:26:08","slug":"kadiatou-balde-discussion-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/2025\/03\/16\/kadiatou-balde-discussion-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Kadiatou Balde Discussion board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I would rate my ability to read poetry after the past two weeks as a 6.5\/10. I understand the main ideas and can recognize poetic devices, but sometimes I still need to reread or translate certain words into French to fully understand the meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My experience with poetry can help me read Oedipus the King by making me more comfortable with older language and figurative expressions. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare relates to the play because both use strong imagery and formal language. In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare writes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And summer\u2019s lease hath all too short a date.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This line describes how time and nature can change beauty, similar to how Oedipus the King shows how fate changes a person\u2019s life. By reading poetry, I have learned to pay attention to language and rhythm, which will help me understand Oedipus the King better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Overall, I think my understanding of poetry is improving!<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would rate my ability to read poetry after the past two weeks as a 6.5\/10. I understand the main ideas and can recognize poetic devices, but sometimes I still need to reread or translate certain words into French to fully understand the meaning. My experience with poetry can help me read Oedipus the King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10376,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-7-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18786,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785\/revisions\/18786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}