11-15-2017, 07:31 AM
If the authors intent doesn't matter then it doesn't matter what we assume about the authors intent. The authors vision (which is just a synonym for their intent) also doesn't matter.
Critique isn't about you. There doesn't need to be room for you, necessarily.
I wrote a poem about grapes.
You thought it was a great poem about an oranges.
Does that mean the poem was lacking in the grapes department? I think so. If I'm an author and I'm writing about grapes, and I want my poem to be about grapes, and not oranges, all the encouraging words about the poem as one about oranges does me no good, even if the poem has great merit as a poem about oranges.
Quote:If there's no room for me, what's to be done?
Critique isn't about you. There doesn't need to be room for you, necessarily.
I wrote a poem about grapes.
You thought it was a great poem about an oranges.
Does that mean the poem was lacking in the grapes department? I think so. If I'm an author and I'm writing about grapes, and I want my poem to be about grapes, and not oranges, all the encouraging words about the poem as one about oranges does me no good, even if the poem has great merit as a poem about oranges.