In “How to Read a Poem” by Edward Hirsch, the author discusses poet William Carlos Williams’s idea that a reader “completes” what a poet has started, saying that the “act of completion begins when you enter the imaginative play of a poem, bringing to it your experience and point of […]
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To “complete” what the poet has begun means to interpret what the poem is trying to say. One example from this week’s poems would be “My Last Dutchess.” It is a monologue written from the perspective of one character, however through interpreting the poem, it is possible to see so […]
I read “My last Dutchess” and at first I did find it hard to “complete” the poem but after going over it in class I was able to understand it better, The poem is about a manipulative Duke that killed his wife because he wasn’t able to control her and […]
I was most impressed by the vignette entitled “Hair.” In this vignette, Esperanza talks about how her hair is a source of both pride and shame for her (Stewart 38). On the one hand, she is proud of her long, thick hair because it is something that makes her feel […]
Aristotle’s claim that poetry is a higher form than history is based on the idea that poetry is concerned with the universal human experience, while history is concerned with a particular period. One timeless human experience that can be found in Oedipus the King is the experience of grief. When […]
In the poem “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, which was more like a poem play. Although the language was a little hard to understand the way it was written was meant to reveal how the speaker’s personality and way of thinking was. The Duke was perceived as someone who […]
