Subject: RE: Daumier-Smith and Empathy
From: christopher robin (majdumbo@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 12:09:09 GMT
> zazie:
> i think any of today's writers (or anyother artist for that matter)
> really don't care what u see into their work. They really like it
> when you say oh i recognized my childhood in it, or the collected
> work of Lenin, or buddistic chants.
> I think that's kind of annoying.
> They should take a teeny weeny bit of responsability for what they write.
In my English course this year a kid wrote a poem about a baseball
game. It was discussed in class and opinions were formed about he meant
throughout the poem. Many of the opinions were very well thought outand
made alot of sense, but when he was asked what he had meant, he said he
hadnt meant anything by it.
Why cant we, in reading a novel or poem or whatever, discuss what it
does to you, or makes you feel. Thats what we can comment about, we dont
need to know what the author was writing it for. Maybe he had some profound
message to send, maybe he didnt; but if a passage moves you, or does make
you feel something, deal with those thoughts instead pf picking apart the
authors intent. Leave the nitpicking for english majors [thinking about
it, some of the people reading this might be] who are going to use that
information for an acedemic reason. That doesnt sound exactly how I wanted
it to, but its the general idea.
A friend of mine compared our two English teachers from last year and this
year and it sounded something like this.. "Mr Davidson wants to pick apart
the piece of art to find the brushstrokes that it is composed of, Mr Steele
wants to look at the work of art and see what it does to US."
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