{"id":18792,"date":"2025-03-16T21:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T01:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/?p=18792"},"modified":"2025-03-16T21:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T01:15:44","slug":"week-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/2025\/03\/16\/week-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the past two weeks, I\u2019ve found poetry difficult to understand, but I think I\u2019ve gotten better at looking for deeper meanings. Poems often use figurative language, which can be confusing, but I\u2019ve learned to slow down and think about what the poet is really trying to say. This will help with Oedipus the King because Greek tragedies also use symbolism and hidden meanings that aren\u2019t always obvious at first. One poem that connects to the play is \u201cStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening\u201d by Robert Frost. In the poem, the speaker pauses in the quiet, snowy woods but remembers he has \u201cpromises to keep\u201d and must continue on his journey. This reminds me of Oedipus because, even when he tries to escape his fate, he keeps moving forward, only to realize he was following the prophecy all along. The idea of being on a path that can\u2019t be avoided connects both the poem and the play. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reading this poem helps me understand Oedipus the King because both show how, even when we stop and question things, we still have to keep going toward what\u2019s meant to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two weeks, I\u2019ve found poetry difficult to understand, but I think I\u2019ve gotten better at looking for deeper meanings. Poems often use figurative language, which can be confusing, but I\u2019ve learned to slow down and think about what the poet is really trying to say. This will help with Oedipus the King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10181,"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-18792","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\/18792","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\/10181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18797,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18792\/revisions\/18797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18792"}],"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=18792"},{"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=18792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}