You’ve misunderstood the pedagogy of Rosenblatt. It is essentially what you describe. Resonate does not mean mirror, it’s more like sympathy from a personal co

You’ve misunderstood the pedagogy of Rosenblatt. It is essentially what you describe. Resonate does not mean mirror, it’s more like sympathy from a personal connection. You need “resonances between the work and each reader’s individual experience” in order to place yourself in the world of “Zhuang Zhou dreaming he is a butterfly.” The opposing school of pedagogy would ignore the personal connection and have you focus on style, structure, metaphor. etc.