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To be fair, while ambiguity can be intended by the author, a poem usually has a finite number of meanings intentionally written into it. If those experts find
by chmod775 8y ago
To be fair, while ambiguity can be intended by the author, a poem usually has a finite number of meanings intentionally written into it.
If those experts find meaning in a poem the author did not write into it, they failed at their job.
If however a poem is found to mean something the author did not intend to say, the author failed.
- jacobush 8y agoLanguage is not static in time and space.
- chmod775 8y agoIt is your job as the reader/expert to interpret a poem based on the language as it was spoken and understood in the time period the poem was written.
- nsomaru 8y agoAn English teacher in high school, emphasising that poetry was subject to interpretation, once recounted to us that John Donne was once attacked in a newspaper over his exposition of the meaning of a poem that he himself had written!