01-07-2013, 02:26 PM
(01-07-2013, 01:50 PM)Leanne Wrote: Serge, I expect neither my prose nor poems to impress anyone
One of the exercises I do with my students is to have them choose symbols that represent themselves - they are required to go beyond the very obvious (eg. a baseball bat if they like baseball is rubbish) and it does take a large amount of introspection. It isn't an easy exercise but it results in a better understanding of themselves and also a greater ability to interpret an appreciate symbolism in all texts.
I think creators of any kind of text need to be aware that the reader will find some kind of symbolic meaning, whether it's what we intend or not. There are few things less interesting to me as a reader than to find a lack of individuality or imagination on a figurative level.
Hi Leanne, my comm was tic. ;-)
I had two cats (they rather had me ;-) ) sadly both died of cancer. A friend "has" a Gecko and I considered seriously to get me one too.
But decided against it bc in order to get what the lizard would be trying tell me I d have to be on ... uhm illegal stuff (keyword: Castaneda) while cats I get even when sober. ,-)