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 […]
One of the timeless experience I found while reading Oedipus the king was his strong philosophy. At the end of the literature, when the king came to realize that he was the guilty one, he did not think of protecting himself. Rather, he requested Creon to impose the same punishment […]
Welcome to Week 4 of our course. This week will be focusing on the genre of Poetry. You’ll be exploring the themes and structure of Shakespearean and Italian sonnets, as well as lyric, dramatic, and narrative poetry. The quiz this week will cover Oedipus the King and basic information about […]
A timeless human experiences or behaviors i found in Oedipus the king was that he’s truthful to his words. In the reading there was a scene was Oedipus got accused of murder and instead of assisting, he confirm and admitted that he did it Oedipus doesn’t try to save himself […]
Hi class, I think that Oedipus King deals with many topics that can be understood as timeless human struggles or qualities. If I had to mention one I would say that a recurrent theme of the text is the struggle of power, which at the end it shows to be […]
As the saying goes “what is done in the dark, will come to light”. That’s what the tragedy of Oedipus the king embodies. The timeless human experience and behaviors evident here are acts of betrayal and forgoing the elders’ warnings. Jocasta knew of the ill fate that was set out […]
