Chu
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Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:03 am
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| Oh, I love analyzing things. Seriously, this is something that I could do for an eternity. Analyzing literature is so beautiful because there's really no right or wrong analysis - it's just your opinion on the author's work. I love discussing these things too because hearing about several different perspectives on one piece just thoroughly intrigues me.
When I analyze things, I like to delve into the different levels of multiple influences on the text. I'm definitely a biographical analyzer. When I'm assigned a book I usually research the author and try to decipher what may have caused that perception reflected in their work. I like seeing their circumstance to better understand where they're coming from, rather than what I'm getting out of it. It's like detective work, and it's really interesting.
Oh, and I hate analyzing things from a feminist perspective. I hate feminism in the first place, so it kills me to look at things as a feminist would. DX Ugh.
Anyway, how do you analyze literature? Do you enjoy it at all, or do you prefer critiquing or reviewing it? What modes do you prefer or hate?
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:42 pm
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| I try not allways looking for more in the text, and apparently thats wrong ha ha.
Like with The Old Man & The Sea my highschool english teacher got upset with me because I explained how the old man was a failure by his own definition that a Fishermen catches fish... and he lost the fish so he failed at life, she told me thats not what the story was about, but she couldn't know that maybe there was nothing more to it then things don't always work out and I'm cool with that, but she isn't.
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Chu
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:14 pm
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| I respect that point of view. XD My boyfriend is the same way, but even though it drives me crazy (I'm bad with calling people that don't use my methods lazy) I just have to accept that not everyone is obsessive with deeper meaning.
Did your teacher try to tell you that you were wrong though? That would piss me off. When I was in eighth grade in middle school, I analyzed a painting of explorers on a boat with a rising sun in the background, saying that the sun symbolized hope and new opportunities. The teacher told me that I was wrong and didn't even grade the assignment. D:< You can't analyze something in the "wrong" way - it's an opinion, after all! The beauty of analysis is that it's about what the individual gets out of it, whether they're the reader or the writer.
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Keylaleigh
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:07 am
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| Now, I'm usually the type that doesn't analyze books very much. Mostly because I think it takes the fun out of reading.
Analyzing MUSIC, however, is my forte. My one friend and I can go ON and ON about what this line in a song means or how this album ties perfectly in with this album. The best analysis I have ever made, though, was for Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats". The whole play can be EASILY summarized in three words.
They're All Aliens
IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE!
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Chu
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:11 am
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| See, everyone says that, but I disagree. What's the fun in reading something if you're not looking at it from many different perspectives? Analysis brings literature to an entirely new level.
I've never been interested in music so I don't care for analyzing it. Same goes with poetry. ^^;
I wanna see Cats though! It looks so interesting.
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ecco
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:12 am
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| *whisperwhisper* Cats is based on a book of poems.... lol
you guys probably know that already, this comment therefore is pointless. woo!
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Keylaleigh
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:14 am
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| Most of what I read is pretty straightforward (Redwall, Nightside, Drizzt). There's no HUGE symbolism in those books. I do like mapping out family trees and relationships in the Redwall books.
Twenty one books, every one with different characters. It's interesting to try and figure out of one was the father of another, or if those two characters got together, and the main character of that OTHER book is their child... It gets pretty confusing.
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Chu
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:18 am
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| @ecco: I never knew that. xP I just saw a clip of it once and immediately told myself that I'd watch it eventually.
@Key: Ah, my favorite books are ones that can be read on different levels. Like 100 Years of Solitude. Beautiful.
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ecco
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:22 am
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| hehe yea i think the book is poems about Cats with the names of the characters in the play, tho ive never actually read them. i think my mum has an old copy of the book somewhere... i should ask her XD
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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:26 am
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| Yeah I was told I was wrong even though I used evidence....
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Chu
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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:48 am
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| That's stupid. :/ Not everyone is going to get some philosophical, poetic analysis out of something. English teachers should be open minded.
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:53 pm
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| Yeah, unfourtunatly I'm more scientific minded o.O; so I like to acctually use whats in the text and she... well she made stuff up.
But I've also had really amazing English teachers as well.
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