{"id":19226,"date":"2025-05-01T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/?p=19226"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:46:07","slug":"week-13-discussion-carol-varon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/2025\/05\/01\/week-13-discussion-carol-varon\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEK 13 Discussion- Carol Varon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think Raymond Carver\u2019s idea of using \u201ccommonplace but precise language\u201d really shows in Gwendolyn Brooks\u2019s poem &#8220;We Real Cool&#8221;\u00a0 The words are super simple and easy to understand, but it still tells a deeper story. The poem is short, direct, and full of an attitude that sticks with you. You can feel the rebellious vibe just by how it\u2019s written. Even though the poem doesn\u2019t go into a lot of detail, it gets the point across in a strong way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The way Brooks breaks the lines, like ending each with \u201cWe,\u201d makes it feel like these teens are trying to prove something, but also unsure of themselves. And then the line \u201cWe Die soon\u201d really hits, it&#8217;s so short, but powerful. It shows how fast their lives could end, and it leaves you thinking. I get what Carver means now: you don\u2019t need big words to create big emotions. Simple words can still be deep if they\u2019re used the right way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Raymond Carver\u2019s idea of using \u201ccommonplace but precise language\u201d really shows in Gwendolyn Brooks\u2019s poem &#8220;We Real Cool&#8221;\u00a0 The words are super simple and easy to understand, but it still tells a deeper story. The poem is short, direct, and full of an attitude that sticks with you. You can feel the rebellious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8814,"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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-13-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19226","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\/8814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19228,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19226\/revisions\/19228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19226"}],"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=19226"},{"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=19226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}