(August 10, 2020 at 10:17 am)Eleven Wrote: I remember in school we always had to read classic literature and give our opinions on what we read. The teacher would tell us what experts had interpreted in relation to the literature.
I was just doing some dishes and a baby roach crossed the counter top. I killed it.
It reminded me of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
Maybe why he wrote what he really did was because he killed a roach in his own home and thought to himself, "That creature had a family and I just killed it."
Anyone who has read the work in question will understand.
What always got up my nose regarding interpretation is that if you disagree with the experts, you’re somehow wrong.
While not all interpretations are equally valid, art is intensely personal. If a book or a play or a statue means such-and-such to you, then that’s what it means.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
