It's amusing to me to see the parallels between the analyses of Sappho's poems and the analyses of Ice Cube's "It Was A Good Day"[1] Both start out with the as

It's amusing to me to see the parallels between the analyses of Sappho's poems and the analyses of Ice Cube's "It Was A Good Day"[1] Both start out with the assumption that the events actually happened literally and exactly as they were narrated, and that the narrator isn't taking any poetic license with the chronology. Then the authors bend or ignore certain facts to build their narrative (whether it's "we're gonna skip the details about the moon" or "we're gonna ignore the details about what was on TV because maybe Mr. Cube was watching reruns or an old VHS tape") Then you have the counter-analysis where people vehemently decry the flaws of the initial analysis and assume that the original work was done by idiots who are overanalyzing the artistry, then a classic internet flame war develops and nothing is accomplished. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Was_a_Good_Day#Date_of_the_%22Good_Day%22 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Was_a_Good_Day#Date_of_th...