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Seriously this is why I hate English class

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Let me talk to them. I’ll set em straight from an authors point of view.
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Thanks coach I would seriously appreciate that
I always think that if an author saw what people got out of their work, the would be like “really? Ok if you say so”
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I do write novels and this is true. We don't think deeply. We write what describes best what we are imagining.
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I've seen this happen and it's so funny. An author and her critic friend were arguing in a class they were presenting in, where the friend kept attempting to explain what she really meant but the author was just staring blankly back at her and going, ". . . Uhhh." More or less
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Professor: So the what the author was trying to express is that throught vacating our bowels we are wastimg away. Author: I was just writing a poem about sh!t, its meant to be funny. I don't know what the teacher is talking about.
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Intent is irrelevant. Trees don't grow to create symbolism, and yet they remain symbolic in many ways across many cultures.
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Ikr they ask u to pick every word 'the' hmm...i wonder what this could mean???
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But literature, art, culture are more than just "what did its maker intend?". In literature, people will read the same text differently, learn different things, draw different conclusions. Don't be so ignorant, people..
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This view is part of the problem the op is talking about xD I mean, if a duck is a duck.. It's not a peacock. Or maybe that one off color feather indicates it's internal desire to be something other thatn it is? :P No, sometimes it's just a duck my friend.
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But literature is so, so much more than you see at first glance. If the duck remains just a duck, you will never see the beauty and brilliance of a book. A good piece of art can mean one thing in the 19th century, and can apply to 21st-century-people in a whole different way.
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Why close your eyes when you look at art, when you could experience and learn so much? Why say "it's just a duck, everything else is made up and untrue, it's a duck and that book has nothing else to tell me". That'd be one sad, grey world, mate..
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Hmm, it depends on the literature. The Op is pointing out the authors intentions may not be as deep as people think it could be. It is the reader that interprets it in another way. Which is fine, but might go against what the author was conveying, which very well may be a duck.
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Yeah, the author's intention is just one way to understand a novel. Just one of many. But a piece of art can change through time and from person to person, just as we all see colours differently. I don't see the problem.
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Not sure what you mean by seeing colors differently, whether you mean it literally, or how we find emotion through them. But that's a different topic :P
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Because you can sing a song to a thousand people and they will sing it back for a thousand different reasons.
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I've written a bit and in looking over there have been a bunch of times where I'm like "oh hey that could represent this and this symbolizes this and" yeah I think you're right
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probably the same with art/artists tbh
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My argument in every lesson


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