tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post4137540724435776097..comments2023-09-30T08:53:15.486-07:00Comments on Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog: May I have the next nuance?lowenkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05198658136254028258noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post-5338850041139918722010-11-18T21:45:25.242-08:002010-11-18T21:45:25.242-08:00There were times in English classes when certain l...There were times in English classes when certain literary symbolisms were explained (for example the metaphor of seasons) that I wondered to myself, "What if the author set the story in the winter time, just because they happened to like winter? What if it was random and they had no intention of symbolizing any sort of death? What if the link the teacher is drawing is purely coincidental?" But such thoughts didn't help me pass tests or complete scripted writing exercises, so I ignored them. But I still wonder some times if there are authors that bumbled about like I do, choosing a setting, a word, a season, because it seems correctly and aptly placed, and I had no intention of tying a deeper metaphorical meaning to it. I often wonder if authors gone before have a good chuckle when we read all of this deep meaning into their work, when maybe they only intended for a cigar to simply be a cigar, and not some coded description of some lusty phallus.Storm Dwellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01046582567151111121noreply@blogger.com