Wednesday, December 3, 2008

To analyze?

I think that it is so interesting that we, as a society, spend so much time focusing on whether it is productive or unproductive to analyze a poem or piece of writing. I find it mildly ironic that we are analyzing whether or not to analyze? Oh well, regardless, I think that people are going to analyze and I think that as long as we don’t murder a poem or piece of writing then it is acceptable (and of course murdering a poem is subjective too). I think that all reading is very subjective. If a person reads a poem in order to analyze it, analyze it. If they read the poem in order to read it for pleasure, then do so. Do what you want to, your choice. It is all your choice, except for the whole teacher asking you to do something, besides that to each his or her own. Really, the point I am trying to make in all this blabber, is that we spend so much time thinking about whether or not to analyze something, but what it all boils down to it, it is our own decision what we do with a piece of writing. So let us use our time wisely and either enjoys the poem or piece of writing, or analyzes it and enjoys it. Your choice.

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