Prompt: In the article “How to Read a Poem” from the Poets.org website, the poet William Carlos Williams, in acknowledging the challenges of reading poetry, writes that a reader must “complete” what the poet has begun. With specific reference to one of this week’s poems, explain how you “completed” what […]
Week 04 Discussion
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At the beginning of “Sonnet 130” by William Shakespeare in first glance it looks like the poet is demeaning and expressing his contrast through comparing her with nature’s beauty. The poet narrates “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red, than her lips red: If […]
In the article “How to Read a Poem” from the Poets.org website, the poet William Carlos Williams, in acknowledging the challenges of reading poetry, writes that a reader must “complete” what the poet has begun. This means that it’s up to the reader to determine what the writer is trying […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
