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TheWriterCunt t1_iymuiua wrote

Reply to comment by Regenerating_Degen in [WP] You're a renowned author who's still going to school. Annoyingly, your English teacher is reading way too deeply into your books. by stopeatingbuttspls

This is the nature —and beauty, in my opinion— of literature; everyone finds their own meaning in the words, whether the author intended them to have a meaning or not. I disagree with the phrase "reading too deeply", because there's no depth of meaning that is "too far" so long as it rings true in some aspect of reality.

Sometimes, the author just means that a curtain is blue. But if someone interprets it as an obstacle to sunlight, a symbolism for sadness and hardship, then that's not "wrong"— It's just a symbolism the author didn't create intentionally.

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Regenerating_Degen t1_iymvonf wrote

I see. But still, wouldn't imagining that 'the curtain was blue' was a symbol of depression by some people be a better fit in a poem? If I'm writing, say, a story about two characters each of which represent an unstoppable force and an immoveable object and they are fighting nearby a house with blue curtains and the symbol of unstoppable force sends the symbol of immoveable force into the house thereby destroying the curtain, why would anyone imagine that the curtains were a symbol of depression?

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TheFieryMoth t1_iymz86m wrote

Why would you mention that the curtain was blue if it has no meaning? Even if you don't have anything in mind, surely there was something that made you decide to choose a blue curtain. And sure, that something could just be that the last curtain you saw was blue, but you could also be subconsciously choosing a color that fit with the mood you desired.

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