Help with Donne: PLEASE! (1 Viewer)

[user]

rather long and pointless post for the purpose of procrastinating

Originally posted by kaseita
lol user, I'd classify you as one of those literary critics who think that you should be able to determine the meaning, without understanding the context.
here's a nice quote

"If you deny the theory that full appreciation of poetry is possible without belief in what the poet believes, then you deny the existence of 'poetry'..." I.A. Richardson

lol

of *course* you don't have to look at the context because as the responder, we interpret and read texts from our context or something or rather <insert more english related> Who cares about the other contexts?

It's like Hitler. From the context of the German people who wanted more living space (lebaustraum or somethign) and didn't like the poverty stricken conditiosn they were forced to live in after WWI, genocide was a good idea. Hitler was good, he was getting them back the land they wanted. But that doesn't make it good, does it?

OMG- context = perspective

now there's gotta be something in that.

 

[Fradam]

ROFL@user's readings. Too funny mate, certainly brightened my day!